The Biggest* Movie Since 'Black Panther'
June 2, 2020 6:56 AM   Subscribe

 
That IFC poster ad is gold. Those are some very smart marketing people over there.
posted by AlonzoMosleyFBI at 7:28 AM on June 2, 2020 [2 favorites]


so has anyone here seen The Wretched? how is it?
posted by supermedusa at 8:13 AM on June 2, 2020


It's good that they found a market, but the current box office stats are all over the place. Some places are reporting Trolls World Tour as the current box office leader.
posted by jmauro at 9:13 AM on June 2, 2020 [1 favorite]


the current box office stats are all over the place.

Box Office Mojo has the first full weekend in March with a total domestic box office haul of just over $100 million, $54 million a week later as COVID closures begin... and $3,920 the third weekend of March. That'd be a 99.996% drop.

That is beyond Gigli numbers. We're through the looking glass here, people.
posted by ricochet biscuit at 10:01 AM on June 2, 2020 [1 favorite]


so has anyone here seen The Wretched? how is it?

It's... fine, I guess? It's a very commercially-viable combination of a teen summer movie and a haunted-house / monster-movie creeper. I enjoyed it but it's nothing at all new and I went in with very low expectations.
posted by whir at 10:07 AM on June 2, 2020 [4 favorites]


Is that an IFC made poster or from the local theater? I assumed the latter.
posted by mark k at 10:43 AM on June 2, 2020


61 on Metacritic, 5.8 out of 10 on imdb. That borders the line of good and not bad.
posted by dances_with_sneetches at 10:48 AM on June 2, 2020 [1 favorite]


Everyone knows you have to go to Baltimore to have BIG FUN with The Wretched.
posted by ApathyGirl at 12:48 PM on June 2, 2020 [1 favorite]


I saw The Wretched recently. It's watchable and has a few genuinely striking or creepy moments.

The most interesting thing about it is the way it feels like two very different films edited together. One film is a bright teen thriller with beats of comedy and romance. This film is mainly set on a sunny lakeside marina, and also includes elements of Teen Rear Window (Disturbia, I suppose). The other film is a dark, woodsy folk horror, replete with lots of 'so hot right now' witchy imagery like antlers, deer skulls, spooky trees and suchlike. It definitely feels like two genres jammed together for maximum commercial effect , but it doesn't not work.

It also includes some intriguing subtext about the breakdown of the nuclear family, evil stepmothers and a teenaged boy's growing distrust of women. Nothing mindblowing, but so much horror these days is depressingly devoid of subtext.
posted by EXISTENZ IS PAUSED at 7:00 PM on June 2, 2020 [2 favorites]


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