Writer-directors Brett and Drew Pierce (billed as The Pierce Brothers) know exactly what they're doing in the creepy prologue to The Wretched, which unfolds 35 years ago as the camera crawls around a lawn on which old-school kids' toys — a knitted bunny, crayons, model cars, an Etch-a-Sketch, a Rubik's Cube — lie abandoned in the rain.
Inside the house, a babysitter arrives to find the flowers wilted and the mother of a young family busy committing a gruesome act in the basement.
A blood-curdling scream accompanies a shot of an ancient witchcraft symbol carved into the door. While the main action then skips ahead to "five days ago," the grounding in '80s horror lore provides a firm foundation, cleverly updated but also laced with visual.
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