The Wicked One

Being a fan of independent movies, and sub-par horror, I was excited to give this a try. After watching the film I was let down. Poor sound, weak story, and a slacking director. The main couple of the film, Alex and Adam, could have been so much more if the director would have focused, especially the girl, she did not retain her character well in points of the movie but they carried the movie at the same time so I have to blame the director there. The killer was lacking. Mask was great. Terrible kills, even for low budget.

It in a way remindes me of the first remake of Halloween, definitely not as good but it is definitely better than a lot of horror films I have tried to watch.

Lot of bags on this flick. Does anyone remember how bad the acting was in all of the Friday the 13th, Nightmare on Elm Street, and Hatchet movies? This is solidly on course with them. The difference is minimal; bad acting, bad direction, bad production, but that is what makes it a good horror/slasher movie for me. And I have seen a lot of stinkers in my time.

So I went through recently and bought a bunch of horror movies on Vudu that looked interesting. This happpened to be one them, and it was pretty good! It's a pretty simple story reminiscent of Halloween.. Our killer escapes the mental facility he's being held in and heads to the old Miller place. There's a bit more of course but that's really all you need to know and, It just so happens that there's people partying there as well who he just had to kill for you know.. Being there in a slasher movie! The kills here were really well done for the small budget I imagine this flick had. For example without spoilers, there's a kill that's done so quickly with a simple knife slash, that it was almost as if our killer "the wicked one" was doing a routine activity like taking out the trash. Very well done. I also loved the Supernatural reference from the Adam character as that's my favorite show as well! All in all, if you're a massive horror fan like me and want to see something new check this one out! There's worse ways to spend 90 minutes and I feel the filmmakers really did something special here with the money they had. I hope they get to make a sequel eventually, and no this review was not sponsored or paid for. I just know absolute trash when I see it and when something is worth watching in a genre such as this.

I too, as others have mentioned am a fan of Indie Horror and Thriller films. This film might qualify as both Indie and Catagorized as Horror.....But, horror in the sense it IS A HORRIBLE FILM.

I wasted 91 minutes on it so I don't dare waste another minute more writing a long winded review of this film. I do however, feel, it's my duty to warn other fans and would be watchers of this waste of film to "avoid at all costs"

Acting, direction,film quality,lighting, story line and plot are all terrible. All you need to do is watch the first 15 minutes where it's explained to some visitors a particular asylum that houses only the worst of the worst homicidal offenders, which by the way, are all kept in a room with wood doors with a lock on the knob! Nothing more keeping them safe from escape! Yep, watch it to believe it....

Nothing else needs saying. Steer WAY clear of this one folks.