Sunday, July 10, 2022

THE WRETCHED (2019)

 

(Directors/screenwriters: Brett Pierce and Drew T. Pierce)

Plot: An angry adolescent boy discovers that a thousand-year-old witch is living next door and tries to keep those around him safe.

 

Review

WRETCHED is half of a good movie, setting up what could have been a solid creepy-supernatural-neighbor work, with unsettling atmosphere, palpable (and well-acted) character emotions, and witch-centric-effective storytelling. Unfortunately, the second half is an unfocused mess of missed spooky, tight-tale-telling opportunities. WRETCHED’s leaves-room-for-a-sequel end-scene is solid, not shocking, but not egregiously bad either. Despite my criticisms of this film, the first half of WRETCHED makes me want to keep an eye on future works of its director-screenwriters, sons of Bart Pierce, who created the visual effects for Sam Raimi’s THE EVIL DEAD (1981).


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