Review #158: The Dark and the Wicked (2020)
This review was originally written in 2022. Gabe's 100 Bucket List Horror Films Review #13 - The Dark and the Wicked (2020) This is one of those movies that I never would have watched in a million years if it weren't recommended to me by this bucket list; the premise is fairly generic and there aren't any actors in it that I'm clambering to see. That being said, it was quite an experience, and I'm glad I watched it! The first thing I should probably get right out there is that this film is hard to watch. It's an incredibly slow burn (I feel like you could sum up most of the events of this entire story in three or four sentences), and it spends the entirety of its runtime steadily building up a mounting sense of impending dread. The entire time the film is playing, you know SOMETHING is coming. At various points, something DOES come, but you know that IT is still on its way. Where most films will break up the tension with some comic relief, or some lighthearted s...