The Wicked

Complete Waste of Time

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 Have you watched The Wicked? Well, the phrase "The Wicked" was interchangeable with "complete waste of time" (see my subheading up there? yeah). I invested 1 hour and 40 minutes of my time because People rated it 9.3 in IMDb and tell you what, that was just sick. I thought it would be better than Mama since Mama only got 6 point something and it has great concept and spooky enough for a horror movie.  Let's see the two most concerning points of this movie.

The plot. For a horror movie, the story is everything. You cannot expect people to accept random sightings without explaining the reasons (because then the movie would be called "startling movie" instead of "horror movie").  The associations of certain events with the ghost's behaviors were the ones that made people keep looking over their shoulders or covering their eyes with a pillow. People know if the characters did this one particular thing, the ghost would hunt them down. This knowledge brewed some serious adrenaline secretions.
In The Wicked, the witch got angry if someone disturbed her house. She would take him into the basement, cover him with caterpillar-type cocoon, stuff an apple in his mouth, grind him, and at the end, eat him so she could regain his youth.  There was nothing wrong with this.  I mean, there are a lot movies about haunted house, psychos or monsters that ate people (Wrong Turn, Hannibal), and even witch that wanted to maintain her youth (remember 500 yo Thuringian Queen in Brother's Grimm?).  However, the movie seemed to just pluck all ideas available regardless their lack of connections.  Why did she cover her victims in a cocoon and stuff an apples on their mouths? Were they some kind of roasted pigs attacked by Ungoliant Spider? I did not see the connections at all. It made me feel stupid instead of scared. Bottom line, the plot was unbelievably weak.

The Character. Bunch of people stuck together (even though not literally in a room) and got killed one by one was kinda the main thing of horror movies these days. I usually expected round characters. The ones that developed or changed over time. But in this movie I only found flat characters.  They were two-dimensional, uncomplicated.  Perhaps it was easier to develop and observe the changes  in series like Meredith Grey and Christina Yang (Grey's Anatomy), Harry Potter, Temperance Brennan (Bones), etc than in a single movie.  But then, Matt Eckert (Red Dawn), John Bennett (Ted), and Gru (Despicable Me) were the characters in movies and they were very well-developed.

I actually felt uncomfortable referring someone's baby as "complete waste of time", but I couldn't help it. This is the second time I used that phrase (the first time was for "Highlander: The Source"). So, People, the 9.3 rate in IMDb was traitorous and deceitful.


Cheers,
Dya

p.s. Wow! Apparently they already downgraded the rate to 3.6. Good move.