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    Feb 22, 2021 2 minutes

    The Dark and the Wicked

    Available on Shudder (shudder.com) from February 25

    The film industry has been in stasis for the past year but one genre has unexpectedly thrived: horror. A resurgent drive-in culture in the US has seen low-budget chillers like and achieve unexpected box-office success, while in the UK the cheap and decidedly non-cheerful capitalised on the rise of Zoom call culture by exclusively on Shudder, the dedicated streaming service for horror-heads that offers a free seven-day trial before charging £4 a month. This week the channel adds another deeply upsetting nerve-jangler to its library in the form of , a demonic rural horror that is all the more effective for playing things extremely straight.

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