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The Crooked Man

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4.5/10 • 40

2016-10-011h 27m

Horror

NO SOUL IS SAFE

While at a slumber party, twelve-year-old Olivia is blamed for the horrific and mysterious death of her friend after singing a song, created by a reclusive mastermind, Milo, which summons a demonic figure known as “The Crooked Man.” Returning to her hometown six years later, a string of unusual deaths lead Olivia to believe that she’s still being haunted by whatever she saw that fateful night. Once you sing the rhyme, everyone in the house is cursed to die by his hands.

Directors
Jesse Holland
Writters
Peter Sullivan
Editors
Brian Brinkman

Top Billed Cast

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  1. Michael Jai White

    Michael Jai White

    Milo

  2. Angelique Rivera

    Angelique Rivera

    Olivia Shaw

  3. Cameron Jebo

    Cameron Jebo

    Noah Palmer

  4. Dina Meyer

    Dina Meyer

    Margaret

  5. Amber Benson

    Amber Benson

    Grace Hutchinson

  6. Marco Rodríguez

    Marco Rodríguez

    Matthew Shaw

  7. Daniel Booko

    Daniel Booko

    Steven

  8. Dmitrious Bistrevsky

    Dmitrious Bistrevsky

    The Crooked Man

  9. Reilly Brooke Stith

    Reilly Brooke Stith

    Charlotte

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Wuchak

May 3, 2019

5/10

Decent but prosaic TV horror with King Diamond as the monster (sort of) A 12 year-old girl is blamed for the death of a friend at a slumber party that was actually committed by a demonic entity called the Crooked Man. Six years later she returns to live with her dad, but the creature also returns to kill anyone in town who was at the slumber party. Angelique Rivera plays the protagonist, Cameron Jebo her rookie cop friend and Michael Jai White a man linked to the unleashing of the demon. Amber Benson is on hand as the mother of the original victim. “The Crooked Man” (2016) is marginally superior to contemporaneous SyFy flicks like "The Hollow," "The Night Before Halloween," "Neverknock" and “Stickman” because it’s not as half-baked and the gobbledygook makes more sense. Everything is taken seriously, which is good in my book, and the demon creature is certainly creepy. He curiously looks like a shaky, tall version of King Diamond in his top hat. Another positive is the inclusion of curvy Dia Frampton as Mia and petite cutie Alexis Wilkins as Alice. Meanwhile Angelique is serviceable as the heroine, but the story doesn’t build up enough drive to give it a higher grade. It’s well done for what it is, a TV horror flick, but it needed more oomph and imagination to pull it out of its run-of-the-mill state. The film runs 1 hour, 27 minutes and was shot in Southern Cal. GRADE: C+

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Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
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Revenue
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Keywords
childhood traumamurdersupernatural creaturenursery rhyme