With ever popular film there of course comes two things the first of which is a sequel and the second of which is a knock off movie. Well Wicked turned out to be a really popular movie and it's sequel is already out however there is also a horror themed knock off movie out as well with it being that film that i'm going to be talking to you all about today and so then join me as I review the film that makes The Asylum more subtle with the film that it's knocking off with the film in question being called simply just "Wickedness" enjoy.
The plot of this film is ten years after her sister is cursed and locked away in a mental asylum for killing there wizard parents a young girl must now fight to survive when her sister breaks out and vows to kill her on there birthday. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty really bad with the films plot being barely watchable at best as the plot of the film is just so thinly drawn out that at times it was hard to make out what the actual plot of this film is even meant to be in the first place heck the plot of any Asylum film is much more better then the plot of this film as they at least try to put effort into there plots where as this is film is best described as being Harry Potter meets Wicked but lame with it being made clear as day that the makers of this film are just hoping that people will confuse this film with Wicked and therefor they chose not to give the film a plot that works which is a ashame as on paper this is a plot that really could have worked it just needed a creative that actually cared about it enough to make it work and not be the mess of a plot that it ultimately ends up being with the films plot barely a strong plot to support a film it just needed a few more passes at the script writing stage to make it all the more better then then what it currently is as right now in it's present form this films plot is laughable at best and downright boring and insulting at it's worst with the plot of this film also not really being really rather entertaining and nor is it really rather engaging either in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Starring in this film is Rebecca Rose McILroy as Maret , Christopher Blackmore as Gorwin and Nicola Ditter as Aymer. Also starring in this film is Clara Legallais-Moha as Desielle , Brynmor Leyshon as Udor , Alesia Lifantii as Ibees , Graeme Muncer as Edwin , Lynne O'Sullivan as Ms. Thinner , Laryssa Ivy Pereira as Vestelle , Sophie Rankin as Aradia , Serena-Elizabeth as Phelorna , Mary Eva Sharp as Ena and Karolina Wojciechowska as Sabrina.
Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually feature / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty really bad. With this being due to the fact that all of this films actors are a bunch of really unknown and very cheap to get actors and therefor expecting good or even decent quality acting from them wouldn't have been the smartest of movies but in saying that that you do expect OK acting even from a cheaply made British Indie film such as this one and yet we barely get that in this film as whilst this films actors are indeed trying there best this is a case where there best just isn't good enough as alot of them are wooden and robotic at best with alot of them barely having any kind of emotion in scenes where they should have lots of emotion with the best actor in this film being quite easily Rebecca Rose McIlroy as Maret as she's the only one that looks like she's actually having fun in this film with her chewing up all of the scenery in every single scene that she's in and whilst it really does look like that the green paint used to make her skin look green is coming off half of the time you can tell that she's really having a blast playing this more deranged version of Elphaba with the acting that's in this film not really being helped by the fact that this films script is just so bad as it gives none of this films actors absolutely nothing to work with interms of what it is that there actual characters personalities are even meant to be in the first place which is something that really does help to hurt the overall quality of the acting that's in this very film.
This film does include something new from the writer of Fairest Of Them All that being the use of magic. However tho he forgot to do one very simple thing and that's explain how magic works in this world as according to this film anyone can be witch or wizard with it not being explained if they are born with there powers or if they train to get them or what having powers means for the rest of the world heck Wizards Of Waverly Place a kids TV show from almost two decades ago explained the ules of magic better in there show then what writer Harry Boxley does in his movie with even the big thing that's meant to stop magic from being used in the first place just being called anti-magic which is just a lame and uncreative name for something like that and they don't explain what anti-magic is either look granted with any fantastical film you have to be able to suspend your disbelief or else the film falls apart but you still need to ground your film in some of logic for that work and this is something that the makers of the film don't do with them just throwing everything at the wall and expecting us the audience not to question it when all that does is cause us to hit our heads so hard from questioning what it is that we're even seeing in the first place yet at the same time tho the film does indeed get some of credit for at least trying to include CGI which granted does look a little bit wonky but that's to be expected given the fact that this film had the budget of a shoelace which would have meant that the films effects budget would be even smaller but alot of the time the spells that the characters are casting look like there not even hitting the person that there meant to be hitting and they also look like that there floating just near the person and not outright hitting them.
It's pretty obvious both from the films title and the fact that the main villain of the film is a witch with green skin that this is film is meant to be a knock off of the 2024 film Wicked. However it lacks all of the basics to t least make this film a film that's so bad that it's good with the film not being entertaining to watch in the first place and nothing about the film is explained at all and heck the film is even a year out to cash in fully on the Wicked phenomena to The Asylum's credit when they do a knock off film they at the very least release it a few days or weeks before the film that there knocking off comes out with them also being alot more subtler then this film as to what it is that there knocking off in the first place where as here the makers of this film just outright tell you on the films poster that this is going to be a horror version of Wicked only without any of the good songs put in it and what's worse is that this is a film that could have worked as a knock off film if they did just two things the first of which being if they released this film alot more closer to the release date of Wicked and not the release date of Wicked: For good and the second of which being if they went all in on what it was that they were knocking off in the first place which they very easily could have done given the fact that The Wizard Of Oz is in the public domain and heck there even releasing a horror version of the book soon as well both of which would have made this film not only more enjoyable to watch as while yes it still would have been a really bad film but it at the very least would have been a film that's so bad that it's good and it also would tricked more people into buying this film for there kids so they would have made more money off of it and heck they could have released it into theaters as well to make a little bit more money of the film.
Like alot of badly done British independent films this film just looks cheap which granted the makers of the film really cold help with. As they do have a very tine budget but at the same time tho it would have helped your film out alot if there was some effort and some thought put into making it look good as films like Popeye The Slayer Man do prove that you can be a small knock off film but still have some actual effort put into it as alot of the shots in this film just look bland and lifeless with there not being alot of color to the film which makes the film look ugly and while granted the makers of this film were more then likely just using whatever material they could find at the time as a way to save money which would be fair enough there still needs to be some creativity in what kind of shots that your getting as in this film we only mostly get static shots where the camera doesn't move with alot of the shots being mid close up shots and that's really it and yet the odd time where we do get some creative it really does stand out as we do get some drone shots which look good and the odd times where the camera does move goes a long way into making this film feel like an actual film and something that some friends made and put up on Youtube and yet the fact that the makers of this film mostly went with the cheaper option instead of trying new things all it does is make this film look even more bland then what it is in the first place when this is film that due to it's subject matter of witchcraft does allow you do some creative shots and if the makers of this film gave the film some color instead mostly keeping it blue or grey it would have made the film alot more pleasant to watch with the film even having peach at the start of the film which was nice but it did also look a little big off putting as well.
Merit as a villain is just your typical horror villain with nothing new added to her outside of the fact that she's a witch. With her big thing in this film being the fact that she wants to get revenge on her sister for having her locked up in a mental asylum for ten years which is a decent and with the fact that due to the curse that her sister put upon her ten years ago she now only gets pleasure from killing members of her own family which would be in an interesting thing to have in the film if he film bothered to develop that aspect of her character at all as nothing about her character gets explained as we don't get to see the bond between Merit and her sister Aradia isn't established all that well as when the film starts we see Merit getting turned into the green skinned witch that she stays like for the rest of the film with her staying evil for the rest of the film when it would have been all the more tragic if we saw them as normal sisters at the start of the film as then it would have made it all the tragic when Aradia has to kill her sister at the end of the film and while Merit is a really fun character to watch in the film the rest of the films characters are just as bland and just as boring as you'd expect from writer Harry Boxley as all of the characters that he seems to create feel just as dull and lifeless as the films that he writes for as there is nothing to this films characters that make them standout from each other with the only thing that makes Gorwin stand out from all of the other characters is the fact that he's a male and that's it and heck Aradia is so boring as a protagonist that I had to rewatch bits of the film again just to get her name as she's that dull of a character.
Now then this film has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly one hour and eleven minuets and fifty six seconds. Which is a fairly decent running time for this film to last as it's a film that really doesn't need that long of a running time to tell it's already really thinly drawn out story in the first place with this film having just about the right amount of plot there to really cover that amount of running time in the first place with the film not even using what extremely limited running time that it has in the first place to fully develop it's plot in the first with it feeling like that things are just happening for the sake of it and not because of the fact that the plot demands and heck Merit even kills people that aren't apart of her bloodline which goes against what little character that she has in the first place with the film not even developing it's characters either as all of the films characters come across as being very one dimensional characters as all of them having nothing interesting about them with this is even being true for Merit who despite being the best character in the film is just a dull and boring character to watch in the film albeit she's not as bad as the rest of the films characters as there was some effort into making her an entertaining character where as all of the rest of the films characters are dull and boring characters with this being something that could have been fixed if the makers of this film actually put in some effort into making sure that both it's plot and characters were well done instead of making sure that we knew this was a Wicked knock off film but I really will admit that this film really does have some really good pacing to it tho.
So now then as this is a horror film that really does mean that I have to actually talk about the actual kills that are actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual kills that are actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty not that bad. With all of this films kills not really being that creative as they all involve Merit using her powers to cast some sort of spell and that's really it and while that is to be expected given then fact that the main villain of this film is a witch but at the same time tho it would have been nice to see a verity of the types of kills that we got in this film as that would have given us the chance to see just how creative that Merit could be as a killer whereas only seeing one type of kill only limits the types of kills that we can see in the film with there not really being a best kill in the film as there all just bland kills that sound great on paper but due to the films incredibly small budget with all of this films kills being very limited in what they can look like due to how small that the budget is as they all involve some really bad looking effects that don't look like that there causing harm to anyone and yet when a film is a bit a witch as the main villain then there really should have been a lot more thought into what they could do with this films tiny budget as the films budget does nothing for the films kills this is despite the fact that having a witch as the main villain is something that has worked before in something like The Craft for example and yet here it felt like that idea was undercooked with the films kills really suffering because of it in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Overall does it really need saying at this point in the review as this film really is a dreadful film and one that does deserve to not be seen by anyone as it's just a dull and boring film that is nothing more then a cheaply made knock off of Wicked and that's really it as that's all there is to this film in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very film in this very review and as such that really does mean that this very film really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 1 out of 10 from me.
Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from Tenor , IMP Awards . Com and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get images from this film being Google Images simply because Google Images actually has images from this film really are up and on Google Images and plus pretty much much all of the images that I personally found on Google Images were all really very fairly high quality and as well as being as really very fairly high definition as well and so then horror fans we end this review as we always do with really our one and true goddess Elvira wishing us all some really very unpleasant dreams.
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