THE WRETCHED | Horror Review

First teased in 2019, and released finally in 2020 "The Wretched" found it's audience among horror indie fans. Me being one of them. The film itself follows a teenage boy with a criminal history who witnesses the otherworldly happenings of the families within his local town. When the film opens up we are first teased with what amounts to the end of the film. One of those starting at the end, and finishing with a full fledged trip throughout what led up to that horrific scenario types of deals. In that teaser we find a babysitter showing up for work in a house that is abnormally quiet. The child is supposedly asleep, and the babysitter chats on the phone to a friend about her job. Interrupted by a noise in the home she lets her friend go to investigate. This leads to her going into the basement. Upon descending the stairs she sees a woman in a rocking chair cradling, and eating a child. This child is of course the kid the babysitter was sent to watch. The woman in the chair feasts upon the lifeless body of the child as blood drips to the floor. Panicked the babysitter runs back upstairs only to be stopped short in her tracks by the man of the house. He slams the basement door in her face, and locks it leaving only blood curdling screams to be heard. The camera pans out outside the basement revealing strange markings etched into the basement door. The film then cuts to several months earlier ...

TERRIFIED | Horror Review

I'm a fan of horror. Been one most of my life. I've watched about every sub-genre of horror that there is. From the supernatural to the slasher flicks, and everything between I've seen it all. In the past 10 years or so, in the midst of my routine horror viewings, I've noticed that the horror genre has not only been revived, and rescued from Hollywood has beens, but has also been saved many times over by indie directors and studios from all over the globe. One such studio which recently started putting out films in physical and digital formats regularly is RLJE Films. In conjunction with streaming services like Shudder RLJE has released quite the interesting library of modern takes on the usual frightful formulas. One of the most recent releases that is "Terrified" is one such take on time honored tradition. It blends the paranormal with the otherworldly, and adds a few twists along the way in it's fractured timeline of events.