Overview"The Crooked Man" is a 2016 scary film aired on the SYFY channel. Directed by Jesse Holland, the movie script was composed by Peter Sullivan and Jeffrey Schenck. Michael Jai White, Dina Meyer, and Angelique Rivera are among the movie's main stars. The motion picture, which focuses on mysterious killer and an innocent rhyme, becomes part of a series of SyFy television films influenced by popular internet scary folktales.
Plot SummaryThe movie begins with a group of pals playing around, singing the nursery rhyme, "The Crooked Man". As quickly as they finish the rhyme, a strange event occurs: the space becomes swallowed up in darkness and one of the women, Olivia, witnesses her pal being slain by an eerie, shadowy figure, "The Crooked Man". Taken in with guilt and trauma over the mysterious death of her buddy, Olivia retreats into herself and winds up in a mental institute for six years.
Years later, Olivia (Angelique Rivera) is launched from the organization, identified to leave the past behind. She reunites with her father (Michael Jai White) and tries to restore her life back to normalcy. However, things take a sinister turn when Olivia and her buddies, who were all present on the night of Olivia's pal's death, discover themselves being hunted down by "The Crooked Man" (Dmitrious Bistrevsky). The group starts to presume that reciting the rhyme summoned the Crooked Man, a sinister entity understood for his sadistically naughty ways.
Development and ClimaxAs Olivia's friends begin passing away one by one, Olivia and her dad choose to delve deeper into the misconception surrounding the scary entity. As they explore, they discover that the Crooked Man will not rest till everybody who sang the rhyme are dead. They also discover that the entity can just exist in the dark and losing one's life to him only helps him grow stronger.
Victims of the Crooked Man are found with their bodies twisted in unnatural positions. This, along with his ability to control shadows, even more magnify the worry among Olivia's good friends who begin to understand what they've done 6 years ago was not just a harmless kids's rhyme.
ConclusionToward the end of "The Crooked Man", Olivia, alongside her remaining good friends and her daddy, face the entity. They try a hazardous technique to trap the Crooked Man in his own world. Olivia manages to eradicate him by reversing the curse through the same nursery rhyme.
Regardless of being a horror movie, "The Crooked Man" likewise stresses the significance of confronting previous errors, irrespective of how terrifying they might be. Olivia's determination to conserve herself and her friends is significant amidst the dreadful unfolding of events. The motion picture ends with Olivia accepting her past, but she remains haunted by the possibility that the Crooked Man might one day return, acting as an open-ended conclusion for sequels to follow.
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