A Wicked Muse is a well-done indie horror film that, for a change, emphasizes characterization and suspense over buckets of gore.
Mark Brombacher plays Michael, a writer so badly afflicted by writer’s block that a demon in a cornfield writing his novel for him seems like a rational choice.
Meanwhile, Helene Robbie as his wife, Pacey, makes her own “pact with the devil” to bear a child following a traumatic miscarriage.
As you can well imagine, things go awry as they are called upon to commit evil deeds to ensure their wishes are granted.
It’s a well-acted film that manages to deliver on a budget, and directors Dennis Alexander Nicholson and Nick Talon keep it at a taut, suspenseful hour and a half or so to avoid overextending its welcome.
A colorful and charismatic Josh Cruddas almost steals the film as Michael’s overzealous literary agent.
The talented Brombacher serves double duty as lead and screenwriter. Except for possibly one or two dream sequences too many, this all works exceedingly well and is superior to much of the horror fare screening in multiplexes today.
Somebody get this baby a distributor yesterday.
A Wicked Muse is a winner, and as long as you don’t demand incessant bloodshed and CGI with your horror, you’ll thoroughly enjoy this engaging, quality work.
Evan Ginzburg
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