{"id":57850,"date":"2020-09-01T11:42:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-01T08:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/theres-no-escaping-the-dark-and-the-wicked\/"},"modified":"2020-09-01T11:42:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-01T08:42:00","slug":"theres-no-escaping-the-dark-and-the-wicked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/theres-no-escaping-the-dark-and-the-wicked\/","title":{"rendered":"#There\u2019s No Escaping \u2018The Dark and the Wicked\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#There\u2019s No Escaping \u2018The Dark and the Wicked\u2019<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

Fantasia International Film Festival runs August 20th through September 2nd as a completely online event. We\u2019re used to attending in person in beautiful Montreal, Canada, but we\u2019re excited to cover this fantastic festival virtually too. Our coverage of this year\u2019s\u00a0Fantasia Festival continues with our review of Bryan Bertino\u2019s The Dark and the Wicked.<\/em><\/p>\n
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Most of us have had darkness of one kind or another cast its shadow over our family\u2019s lives. It\u2019s usually surmountable, no matter how challenging, but in the heat of it things can often feel hopeless. That oppressive feeling, the fear that no matter what we do we\u2019re not going to overcome things, is something of a niche for writer\/director Bryan Bertino. His near masterpiece of a horror film, The Strangers<\/em> (2008), is a terrifying example, but he may have outdone himself with the crushing and emotionally brutal The Dark and the Wicked<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Louise (Marin Ireland) and Michael (Michael Abbott Jr.) are adult siblings who return home to their family farm under grim circumstances. Their father has fallen ill and is bedridden and unconscious, and their mother is crumbling beneath the weight of both his absence and his presence. Their arrival upsets her further as she told them both to stay away, but after years of focusing on their own lives they insist on being here for her now. She takes her own life a day later leaving her children to mourn, care for their father, and question what the hell is happ<\/a>ening in the place they once called home. Visions, sounds, and regrets fill the air as it soon becomes clear that something else is on the farm with them, and it\u2019s hungry for their very souls.<\/p>\n

The Dark and the Wicked<\/em> delivers on its title with a dark and wickedly nihilistic slice of supernatural horror. Bertino unleashes everything in his arsenal to deliver immedia<\/a>te scares, atmospheric chills, and a devastating sense of terrifying unease. Shadows, sharp cuts, and impeccable sound design work to create a situation from which there is no escape. From early flashes of something in the barn amid the goats, to horrifying hallucinations of the dead, to the undeniable feeling that something is in the room with them, these characters are put through the ringer \u2014 and Bertino ensures that viewers share in that fear.<\/p>\n

Bertino relies on the unreliable at times with music stingers to \u201cenhance\u201d the jump scares, a shaky face retread straight out of Jacob\u2019s Ladder<\/em> (1990), and now you see them, now you don\u2019t visions. But he also lets more than a few scares hang in the air including barely glimpsed figures in the background and some terrifically frightening sound design. A supposedly empty chair scrapes across the floor and settles beneath the weight of an unseen occupant, bells clang in the darkness, and the cries of something unnatural haunt the night. It\u2019s not all shadows and trickery, though, as Bertino also delivers more practical horrors. Chief among them is an early scene highlighting a grotesquely cringe-worthy instance of finger violence that you won\u2019t soon forget.<\/p>\n

For all of the expected genre elements that identify The Dark and the Wicked<\/em> as a horror film, though, its greatest power to disturb comes from the characters\u2019 growing struggle with fear and grief for what\u2019s lost. There\u2019s a sadness in the family\u2019s disconnect, and it\u2019s made more devastating seeing Louise and Michael sincerely try to salvage their relationship not only with their mother but with each other too. Love should strengthen and embolden us against evils real and imagined, but what if it\u2019s not enough? What if the threat, the entity that\u2019s invaded your home, is so insistent in its cruelty and mental game<\/a>s that it simply wears you down through terror, misery, and loss that the fight seems unwinnable? Sometimes love, faith, and hope just can\u2019t compete.<\/p>\n

There are a handful of supporting players here including a brief but disturbing turn by Xander Berkeley, but it\u2019s Ireland and Abbott Jr. who earn viewer praise even as we sympathize with their characters. As siblings walking an uneasy path toward reconnecting, the pair display an unspoken connection in the way they communicate with glances and shorthand. The love and anger they feel towards each other is palpable, and it makes their journey that much more harrowing and heartbreaking. Credit is also due to cinematographer Tristan Nyby and composer Tom Schraeder for shaping the atmosphere and the terror through images and sounds both subtle and jarring.<\/p>\n

The Dark and the Wicked<\/em> is a true chiller that tightens its grip on viewers from the very first scenes and doesn\u2019t let go until the end credits roll. Suffocating terror and nerve-wracking tension aren\u2019t a common combination, but Bertino finds his sweet spot in the pairing and delivers an often unrelentingly frightening experience. Fans of cinematic dread should seek it out immediately \u2014 unless you live on a farm in which case you should probably never watch it. Like, ever.<\/p>\n

Follow our coverage of Fantasia 2020 here.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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