The Wicked
A Group of teenagers test the legend of an immortal witch and get more than they bargained for. It's almost Halloween and six young people, spooked but not undaunted by the folklore surrounding an old haunted house, make their way to the abode of the legendary Wicked, perhaps hoping to provoke the malevolent witch, but clearly not prepared for what they've certainly unleashed.
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- Cast:
- Devon Werkheiser , Nicole Forester , Justin Deeley , Caitlin Carmichael , Cassie Keller , Jamie Kaler , Jess Adams
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Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!
Good movie, but best of all time? Hardly . . .
Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable
The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.
I was shocked that the movie was as good as it was, since I saw the IMDb grade and thought "should I waste my time watching this?" and I do not regret the choice I made! I've seen worse movies with higher grades. The story is kind of a cliché, but it is doable anyway. The actors are actually good compared to what I was expecting and some of the effects were actually well made. I cant say that everything was, but some. It gave me a few jumpscares, not much but little. The movie also made me laugh a few times with some of the punchlines.So, if you like me, are at home at a Saturday night, looking for a movie to watch just to pass the time, this is the one.
Yet another modern horror let down by a cast of morons. If you love having every single horror movie full of asinine teenagers and adults who act like teenagers then this poor excuse for a movie will be right up your alley. The Wicked is a ho-hum tale of a legendary witch that preys on kids. Deep in the local woods lies a dilapidated house which is the focal point of teenage pranks. It seems the trick is to throw rocks at the house getting as close as possible to the windows without breaking the glass. If a window gets smashed then this obviously upsets the witch who instead of just sending you a bill or claiming on insurance, comes after you and kills you; and that's pretty much it. A group of vapid teenagers decide to get together for a camping trip of drinking, smoking and pre-marital sex and also to test the legend of the witch house as they had heard stories going back years of kids who mysteriously went missing. So on throwing their rocks a windows gets smashed and after seeing a shadow or shape moving around, they all freak out and run off. The witch ends up hunting them all down. Those that don't end up in the meat grinder and summarily eaten by the witch, defeat her by setting her on fire and locking her in her own dungeon. This movie is bad from start to finish with poor acting, lame dialogue, questionable special effects and the typical "this is not really over" ending. There isn't anything remotely good about this and I'm beginning to question whether or not I'll ever see even a half-way decent modern horror movie ever again. The formulaic approach to fill every movie with idiotic teenagers wore out its welcome about 25 years ago or more and it doesn't look like this will change any time soon. It never ceases to amaze me just how quickly so- called friends turn against friends or lovers turn against each other as soon as they get a little freaked out or scared. One brainless scene has the witch confronting them out in the woods so they abandon each other and run off in different directions, getting picked off one by one. The Wicked seems to go from one idiotic scene to another, never really making a great deal of sense in the process. It's a forgettable movie with an equally forgettable cast, so don't waste your time.
Good acting and good story but needs better direction. You know what your getting here, d2d teen horror of B+ quality. All that said, as others have said, if you like the genre it is worth watching. I did not find it as bad as some others. I watched until the end and though I would have preferred a few more scares, I don't feel like I was sold a bill of goods. It needs to use the storyline to better effect because similar plots have yielded superior movies but I would blame that more on direction than acting. Some of these actors really have what it takes while others... Well, you just have to laugh at how bad their acting is. That's part of the beauty of these movies to me.
Trying to disprove a local legend about a haunted section of town ruled by a devious witch, a teen and his friends get caught up in the creature's true exploits after stumbling upon its latest victim and forcing them to stay one step ahead of the creature's evil powers to escape.This wasn't all that bad of an effort and had some good things going for it. One of the better elements is the fact that there's a lot more gruesome-ness that would be expected in such an effort, the majority of it tied to the deaths inflicted by the creature during the latter half of the movie. Filled with bodies being fed through a sausage maker, limbs being ripped off, scratches that act more like gouges in the flesh and much more,as well as the continued usage of severed limbs and entrails as general props makes for a rather bloody time. That the witch itself not only has a pretty creepy back-story in here, itself not really executed all that well but the idea itself is far and away quite chilling, works as a creepy character due not only to the back-story but also to the notion of using her powers despite already having the upper hand in the situation to gain an even more unfair advantage makes her that much more sinister and evil, just like a realistic being would be like if found in such a situation which greatly emphasizes the wickedness of the being. By trapping them inside the haunted house-style shack she inhabits that this whole thing takes place as well as the darkened woodlands surrounding the house, this pretty much focuses on a creepy character inhabiting a creepy location, and that's pretty impressive in establishing a fine atmosphere here. There's still some flaws here, as the fact that the human interactions here are so non-worthwhile that they make the film a pain to get through with their boredom in going through so many useless, unnecessary and utterly clichéd plot-points that the witch loses the central value for most of the first hour of the film. By having the family feuding with each other, the misunderstood teen fighting with the police for no real reason, the search party trying to score with each other, and generally focusing on these issues to the detriment of the horror makes this a tough one to get into. The finale as well takes a bit of extreme suspension to swallow it for how it finally handles the witch's powers, and it doesn't come off nearly as well as it should. These hold it down from what could've been.Rated R: Graphic Violence, Graphic Language, Nudity, a sex scene and drug use.