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  • Official Trailer
  • Trailer 1

Movie Info & Cast

Synopsis

Following his parents' separation, a rebellious teenage boy, Ben, is sent to live with his father for the summer and work at the local marina in order to gain some form of discipline. The idyllic tourist town offers little solace for him, however, as he is forced to deal with the local, privileged teens and his father's new girlfriend. Ben's problems grow increasingly disturbing when he makes a chilling discovery about the family renting the house next door. A malevolent spirit from the woods has taken ahold of the parents and starts playing a sinister game of house, preying upon the children and wiping away any trace of their existence. Ben's suspicions of the supernatural horrors go unheeded and he launches a perilous crusade in order to put an end to the skin-walking witch's reign of terror. Chilling and suspenseful, THE WRETCHED offers a modern update to the retro young hero's mission like that of The Goonies, and promises to make viewers wary of every dark corner they encounter after witnessing its terrifying tale.

Cast

  • John-Paul Howard
  • Piper Curda
  • Jamison Jones
  • Azie Tesfai
  • Zarah Mahler
  • Kevin Bigley
  • Richard Ellis
  • Blane Crockarell
  • Judah Abner Paul
  • Amy Waller

Atom User Reviews

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It was a pretty good horror movie. Pretty typical but entertaining and that is the whole point of movies. It originally premiered July 2019 and just appeared in some theaters since there are no other new movies to show since COVID-19 quarantine.

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Steve R

Metacritic

40
May 7, 2020

The narrative focus is frustratingly split between Ben’s family and Abbie’s, and the result is a non-frightening muddle.

Metacritic review by Peter Bradshaw
Peter Bradshaw
The Guardian
50
Apr 30, 2020

The editing is more than a little rough and the plot gets a little stretched, but just as things start to get seriously hairy, the Pierce brothers suddenly have something really interesting to say about erasure and how families can abandon their histories.

Mark Kennedy
The Associated Press
70
Apr 21, 2020

There's enough solid internal logic mixed in with the murky ambiguities to keep The Wretched far more compelling than its generic title might suggest. The filmmakers are working to a formula, but they definitely have fun with it, which is contagious.

Metacritic review by David Rooney
David Rooney
The Hollywood Reporter