I've been binging many of the classic 80's horror as well as cult classics and this film, The Wretched, gives me a similar feeling. It's your classic "I think my neighbor is a ____" with the mix of teen romance and family drama. It isn't an intellectual horror as this is a saturated genre, but it was fun to watch an updated version of the genre movies I love (fright night, the lost boys, etc). Like those films, they aren't perfect but they have there strengths as well as weaknesses. The creepiness was decent, but it was never very scary. It did a good job of slowly introducing the monster and building suspense. One thing I disliked was that the subplots failed to go below surface level so looking back they felt like a waste of energy - should have focused on only one along with the main story. However, the production was fantastic and you could tell they knew what they were doing. Actors were fine, but nothing to write home about.

Real rating: 6.3 (given a 7 because I feel the current score of 5.8 is bit too low)

Brilliant and well done horror. Amazing, considering the budget, don't let this put you off though, the quality and story were amazing.

Due to the pandemic, crap movies seem to be on the loose, this movie definitely doesn't fall into that category. It was refreshing.

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.