The Dark and the Wicked

The movie's focus on the emotional dynamics of parents and children makes it a companion piece to psychologically driven recent horror films....

...a chilling and nightmarish story of occult occurrances in backcountry Texas.

...a nastily effective, lo-fi, psychological haunted house horror...

...the players sell it. And the jolts — an apparition here, a ghost in a shadows there — get the job done.

...understands how the scariest stuff in the world is the unknown, and it uses that effectively, right up to the final moment.

...one of the (few) good horror films that I’ve come across in a while that doesn’t rely on cliched ghosts who are just, I don’t know, dark makeup and people-killer with no scares and predictability.