Seventeen year old Ben goes to live with his Dad and gets a job at the marina where he works. He notices strange things going at his neighbours' house, the sexy mother - who looks like a Goth/rock chick - has become possessed by an evil witch who lives in the nearby forest. The Wretched is a teen movie meets Folk Horror and I think that the former is the stronger aspect. As a horror movie it throws in plenty of "scares", perhaps we see too much, a common fault with modern horror, personally I didn't find it scary at all. There are a few good special effects, one of the best has the witch emerging from a persons abdomen. Acting is good enough, Pipar Curda as Ben's sort of girlfriend Mallory being my favourite character. As modern horror movies go this isn't too shabby.
Review of The Wretched
