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The Wretched

2019

Brett Pierce, Drew T. Pierce

John-Paul Howard, Piper Curda, Jamison Jones, Azie Tesfai ...

5.0

2,674

Horror A defiant teenage boy, struggling with his parent's imminent divorce, faces off with a thousand year-old witch, who is living beneath the skin of and posing as the woman next door.

	Author	Review
United States	Dennis Harvey Variety	"This polished, well-paced middleweight nightmare will please most genre fans, while announcing the writer-directors as ready for major-studio assignments."	POS
United States	Geoff Berkshire Los Angeles Times	"A nifty horror film with shades of both Spielberg and Hitchcock (... ) Above all, it’s a slick calling card for its filmmakers"	POS
United States	David Rooney The Hollywood Reporter	"The grounding in '80s horror lore provides a firm foundation, cleverly updated but also laced with visual nods that go even further back, to classic Spielberg."	POS
United States	Jeannette Catsoulis The New York Times	"Though indebted to films like Tom Holland’s terrific 'Fright Night' (...) 'The Wretched' adds a twist or two of its own. And if the final, teasing image is completely expected, it won’t erase the fun you’ll have getting there."	POS
United Kingdom	Simran Hans The Guardian	"[A] lean, surprisingly grisly horror (...) The film isn’t the smartest or most sophisticated example of the genre, but it’s not trying to be (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Simon Abrams rogerebert.com	The frustrating ‘80s horror homage “The Wretched” often feels like the kind of lazy nostalgia-bait that the Duffer brothers’ “Stranger Things” is sometimes excessively dressed down for (...) Rating: ★½ (out of 4)"	NEG
United States	Meagan Navarro Bloody Disgusting	"[It] has plenty to offer (...) The Pierce brothers have delivered a new dark fairy tale that the midnight crowds will enjoy (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Eric Kohn IndieWire	"Fun Horror Ride (...) 'The Wretched' doesn’t reinvent the rules, but it has a timeliness to it that’s hard to shake"	POS
United States	Jared Mobarak The Film Stage	"[Pierce's] intention is to tell a standalone story wherein body count and identity have no limits (...) This isn’t a simple monster movie that ignores the more complex details of its mythology"	POS
United States	Becky Sayers Dread Central	"A highly cinematic film, crafted with confidence and creativity (...) The Pierce duo has injected awesome new ideas into the underexplored witchcraft subgenre (…) Rating: ★★★★½ (out of 5)"	POS

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