# The Dark and the Wicked (2020)

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**Runtime**: 95 min
**Genres**: Horror
**Directed by**: Bryan Bertino
**Written by**: Bryan Bertino
**Starring**: Marin Ireland, Michael Abbott Jr., Xander Berkeley, Lynn Andrews, Julie Oliver-Touchstone, Tom Nowicki

> *She told you not to come*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Nightfall on a silent farmstead. A shuffle of sheets, a rasping breath. The dying man’s kin assemble, their hollow condolences crumbling against unseen tremors.

Hushed voices curdle into whispers about scrawled bunkhouse prayers, late-night footsteps that vanish mid-hallway. Shadows lengthen between wings of the house.

A one-line throwback to Tobe Hooper’s Texas Chain Saw aesthetic, with Godwin’s Law as the horror.

**Mood tags**: dread, slow-burn

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