The Wretched - a missed opportunity

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  • The Wretched - a missed opportunity

    What a strange film - and for the wrong reasons.

    Opening, pointless kill scene just because that's what's needed to grab attention in these ADHD times.

    Genuinely creepy follow-up with a tree and something crawling out of a deer - and that chilling baby monitor footage will haunt me forever.

    But so much didn't make sense. It's as if much was left on the cutting room floor leaving us with plot holes, logic leaps and unfinished plot lines.






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    Protag teen has continual run-ins with local teens for no reason. If it's to illustrate his isolation and struggle to fit in with his peers then it didn't work.

    Protag teen also has a couple of scenes with a girl he fancies yet they go nowhere.

    The witch possesses a woman yet her skin suddenly starts to decay for some reason that's never explained.

    The witch eats kids but it's unclear why as it's clearly not rejuvinating her skin.

    And another character was probably a witch, too, yet their skin never deteriorated.

    The witch likes a house for some reason - witches just want to live in suburban idyll, it seems.

    She whispers things to control people (like her husband) so all she wants to do is play Happy, child-free Families?

    Continuing this suburban, Happy Families theme, she takes over a makeup-free rock chick and starts wearing floral dresses and lipstick.

    The witch eats her host's child but inexplicably passed up several opportunities to snatch him when alone together.

    It later transpires that she can body jump though the how and why aren't explained - a character just turns out to be possessed as a plot twist so, uh, I guess that's all we need to know.

    She takes kids to eat - including the two sons of the first woman she possesses yet, conveniently enough, another kid is still alive and well because, well, the protag wants to find her alive.

    The first half is a nod to Rear Window/Fright Night but doesn't do anything with this premise. No one in authority is told so the protag never feels disbelieved and all alone. The witch also doesn't do anything even though she knows that he knows.

    People can be totally controlled except when the plot requires them not to be (the policeman).

    A dog comes out of nowhere to save the day when protag was about to be killed.

    Another twist is that the witch made him forget he had a younger brother, and a flashback scene shows he arrived in town with his brother yet the start of the film shows he travelled alone and the photo of his family didn't feature his brother until the end.

    The end twist is that his love interest, Mal, is a witch. If it's the witch then when did this take place as she was killed in the showdown and never got near Mal. If Mal is just another witch then there's no explanation why she keen to antagonise and kill another of her kind.
    Last edited by SundownInRetreat; 06-13-2020, 05:36 PM.
    M.A.G.A.

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    Re: The Wretched - a missed opportunity

    Pfft, witches, eh! Can't live with them; can't make sense of them; can't burn them at the stake!

    But yes, seriously, it's bewildering how so much gets made with so little care to write intelligently.
    Know this: I'm a lazy amateur, so trust not a word what I write.
    "The ugly can be beautiful. The pretty, never." ~ Oscar Wilde

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