Wild Eyed and Wicked

This film was written, directed and filmed by the same person whose family owns the property on which it is filmed. It's a passion project and I'm sure it's meaningful to him, his wife who is apparently a part of this film and whom part of the story resembles, and is best left in their living room. There is no reason to care about any of the characters and you don't. The dialogue is clunky. The lead actress is the only one who can act and I have to wonder what brought her to star in this film, perhaps some connection with the director.

In short, young woman suffers from nightmares of seeing her mother, with scratches on her face, kill herself in the woods. Why? Don't know. But she's a fencing instructor, always had a fascination with the knights and a story mom tells, and has a lesbian relationship with a girl in the movie who has little acting skills but is probably stunted by the mindless dialogue. It feels like it was inserted to have an LGBTQ character to have enought screen time to have no purpose other than to remind you the film has significant LGBTQ presence.

Girl must go back home to see Dad who is cleaning up stuff after mom's death. A stilted dialogue about a challenging relationship with Daddy and question the entire first 70 minutes of the film - are girl's visions of a monster following her in life and in her dreams real. It relates to her mother possibly also being a demon. Now you'll sit and watch this story do nothing but explore lesbian and daddy relationships until the very end when that question is answered in a very laughable ending that reminded me of Monty Python and the Holy Grail. When other said it's plodding is an understatement, they meant it. And the decent reviews by the few indie reviewers... well... we should know better than to take them seriously. It's a wealthy film school graduate's passion project. Good for him to make a full feature film. While the camera work isn't bad, almost everything else is sadly not worth watching for the rest of us.

You should watch this movie if you're exhausted and ready to go to bed. It won't take long until you fall asleep. It is not my intention to review this kind of film. Since the movies must, at the very least, provide some compelling reasons to be seen. Horror movie "Wild Eyes and Wicked" is one of the nastiest ones. Poor screenplay and plot. Cinematography is a total failure. You won't see anything in the movie's climax other than darkness if you watch it. Silent, lonely things. In my opinion, the filmmaker fails to portray the true situation and the script's logic, and the performers in the parts are oblivious to what is actually going on in the plot.

A very strange film for sure. How would I describe it?

Part ghost story, part LBGTQIA story, part dungeons and dragons. I think that's got the main points down.

None of it made any sense. There were some good scenes at least. Those were the creepy ones. The lesbian relationship bit had no bearing on the rest of the story.

The main character was horribly written being the most unsympathetic protagonist I have ever seen in a motion picture. She is bratty, spoilt, ungrateful and generally unhappy with everyone.

Thankfully it's a tiny budget, so at least it won't be disappointing its bank manager too much. In short, avoid.

I don't understand all the hate. No this isn't a super blockbuster horror movie with a huge budget. It's a slow build movie. I like the main character Lilly. She's complex & real. Of course she's pissed. Her dad was an absent father fighting his own battles. We slowly learn the reasons for their estrangement. If you want blood, gore and guts this isn't the movie for you. If you want a movie that makes you think and feel this is for you.

I think the production value is good. The scenery is beautiful. I enjoyed the way things were shot especially in the wooded scenes. The tension build was suspenseful.

The acting was good. I felt the chemistry between Lilly & Willow. As a lesbian myself I liked how the lesbian relationship wasn't a huge focus of the film. It was just part of who Lilly is.

Give this film a chance. In my opinion you won't regret it.

I was pleasantly surprised by this movie. The story was pretty intriguing, and it definitely has some good jump scare moments. The acting, especially the lead was good.

All this is taking in to account that there are no big budgets, studios or actors on this project.

With those considerations it really pushes this much higher than the ratings I am seeing on here. I would honestly love to see any of these commenters do something better with the same budget.

It might not compete with big budget movies, but I think the cast and crew should be proud of what they put together.

If you keep these considerations in mind, I think you will enjoy this movie!