“The Dark And The Wicked” (*1/2 out of four) was a lumbering horror story set on a secluded farm in which a family patriarch (Michael Zagst) is dying and his surrounding family (Marin Ireland, Michael Abbott, Jr. and others) gathers to mourn and pay their final respects but soon come to realize than an evil spirit and entity has taken over and they are all doomed. You keep thinking something significant or spooky will happen but nothing ever does as film plods nowhere. Film is beautifully photographed by Tristan Nyby but rings hollow after a while. This was filmed at writer/director Bryan Bertino’s own family farm.