A bit overrated, but still an amazing film

Simple and well acted, it has tension enough to knot the stomach.

There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

It is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review

This movie centers on an old town ghost story that the abandoned house in the woods is occupied by the spirit of a witch. The local kids use it as a dare to go out there and break the windows which is told will invoke the witch's spirit. When a young girl named Amanda (Caitlin Carmichael) disappears after doing just that, the locals blame it on the legend of the witch. This doesn't stop Zach (Deeley) from taking his friends out to the site to party, have sex and then of course break the windows of the house. Before you can say "eye of newt" the group is being captured and killed by the CGI witch as they try to escape and save the imprisoned Amanda. The by-the-numbers story and cardboard characters don't help this pretty predictable movie that makes it tough to find a character to side with. The closest we come to is Zach's younger brother Max played by Devon Werkheiser and his spunky tomboy girlfriend played by talented actress Diana Hopper. The mostly CGI witch doesn't do much in the way of getting scares, but the movie does paint the screen red at times with the demise of a few characters. It just seems like writer Michael Vickerman should have written one more draft of this script to iron out the bumps and a shorter running time could have turned this into a nice B flick to enjoy. The movie is well made and certainly watchable, but the undercooked script and story drain it from truly being effective.

Watched this about 2 months ago and me and the wife sat with a glass of wine each really looking forward to watching this. We had watch a trailer before hand and by the movie sleeve and info it all sounded good were we wrong what a pile of Cr*p wasted what was 95mins of life and it was one of those that you sat there thinking its got to get better it doesn't we even at half way point started to fast forward the movie just to see if it did get any better and again never did out of the 95mins I would say we painfully watched about say 20mins the rest was just on fast forward really just to get to the end and when it finished we both looked at each other and said WTF. Again if you are wanting to watch a good "Witch Horror" flick then stay well clear of this sh*t i've only given this movie a "1" because there wasn't a "zero" or "minus zero" or would have given it a lot less. So just to recap STAY WELL CLEAR OF THIS CR*P....You have been warned.

For years (since I saw Hocus Pocus when I was a child in fact) I've been waiting for a seriously scary witch horror film and I thought this was going to be it. Witches have potential for being very scary, but it has to be done by the right film maker (which was not the maker of this film). This was TERRIBLY written, and the teenager characters were generic and stupid, like they were out of "Friday the 13th Part 23". The two cop characters were even stupider than the teenage characters, which is just ridiculous. Granted the witch was VERY creepy, I'd say that their entire budget went to that. Needless to say, I was not very impressed that i wasted a Netflix rental with this piece of garbage.

Be as wary of the 1 ratings as the 9s! This is NOT the worst movie ever made, as some people are trying to say or even the worst horror movie ever made! Neither is it the best movie ever, I'm not saying that, but i feel many of the reviews are simply unfair and for some reason biased. You want to see a TRULY bad movie, watch Contagio (directed by Steve Session, OMG, now THAT is a bad movie!!!!!). The acting in The Wicked is not bad, again, not sure why some reviewers say they are. They're solid, the movie hangs together...I do wish the ending had been better. It's low budget, but not as low as many others I've seen. It doesn't look like it was made with a camera phone, which seems to be the usual horror fare these days! It was a little trite and not as scary as I'd hoped, but enjoyable overall. I suspect the really bad reviewers have some sort of beef with someone related to this film.