There's a good balance of firmness and entertaining. Creepy thrills and atmospheric chills, for a pretty modest horror film I thought it did the job pretty well.

There's something appealing about its modest ambitions, with its cast of unknowns, relative low stakes and retro jump scares.

A non-frightening muddle.

...growing up is scary enough, but with a decent plot twist up their sleeve, the makers of The Wretched don’t quite expand their big idea to form a striking, foreboding world in the way that a classic horror can...