Apple Magazine - USA - Issue 444 (2020-05-01)

You can thank “The Wretched” if you suddenly

want to add another item to stock up with

during this pandemic: salt. That’s one of the only

things that apparently keeps witches at bay. Pro

tip: buy it in big bags.

Brothers Drew and Brett Pierce — co-directors

and co-writers — have put together dark little

modern fairy tale with “ The Wretched,” their

second film together. It has an awfully good

twist at the end, but that’s barely worth the first-

half slog.

It’s the story of a 17-year-old who one summer

lands a job at his dad’s marina (bummer, man)

and then finds himself the only thing standing

up to a skin-walking, flesh-eating witch’s reign of

terror (double bummer, man.)

HORROR FLICK ‘THE WRETCHED’ WASTES SOME GOOD IDEAS