Review by clairelouise5

The Dark and The Wicked a is one of my favourite horrors. It is excellent in every sense of the word. This is a story about two grown siblings returning to a remote farmhouse to help their mother tend to their ailing father. Sounds like a familiar trope, sure. But something is different here.

It felt grim and gritty. The siblings were downcast and the atmosphere heavy. The horror begins as a slow burn, and I was comfortably able to weather the scary bits... for a while. The story really becomes it's own and the horror- subtle, realistic, twisted, and terrifying.

I jumped out of my skin a few times but it was the originality and the building sense of dread that got me.

When I started the film I thought it seemed pretty good but didn't know it would get me like it did.