Dakota Hanning is one of those actors who have spent practically their entire life as a celebrity. A children's starfish that climbed to a supermitwire thanks to the roles in "I'm Sam" and "Man of Fire", Fanning has been in this business for a long, long, long time. However, as much as we may not think it is true, she is also something of the Creek Queen. 20 years ago, she starred in "Hide and Looking for" with Robert de Niro As a child. She has returned to the genre of horror over the years and has now returned with one of her most attractive performances in a genre movie with her twist in "wicked".

The film focuses on Polly (Hanning) who gets a mysterious box from an unexpected visitor at the end of the night. After a disturbing meeting, Polly learns that this field comes with a set or rules. Once she opened it, she retired to an surreal nightmare where every choice that makes it leading to worse consequences.

Directed by Brian Bertino, from the fame "Foreigners"Vicious recently premiered by Fantastic Fest in Austin, Texas. Right up, I can tell you that people will be mixed up on the movie as a whole. It's just one of those films. It may appear with an unimpressed result of rotten tomatoes. But I'm here to suggest that this is a movie where viewers need to take the diving and ignore it out. It is one of those situations where the result of the screen cannot catch the shade that this film deserves.

What I can say with confidence is that it is a punishment experience, the one that relies almost completely on the talents of the fanning because it is practically alone on the screen for what feels like 90% of the film. She shakes that weight well. It is an impressive, performance durability test. Only this makes the film well worth watching this season of Halloween.

Hanning has been giving great performances for decades. She was one of the best part of Steven Spielberg "War of the worlds "that was not for anything, one of the director's biggest hits. Holding your own as a child against Tom Cruise is no small thing. You have to do all the movie work because you are the only one on the screen, you often have to do wildly unpleasant things? That's another thing in full.

Faning delivers MVP levels "I just had to make 90 minutes of f **** d up work from me." Other examples of this include Ryan Reynolds in "Buried" and Caitlin Dever in "No one will save you". It is impossible to see "wicked" and not surprise in the commitment to Janing. It is a performance that certainly takes long days of screaming and putting in a terrible space to make the pole work. Loveum or hate the film, the play in the heart of it all is admired.

Then there's Bertino. He feels like, as a director, he is a kind of profit. The "monster" is a great monster that no one has seen. "Dark and wicked" is underestimated. The "foreigners" earned their place as a classic home. And Based on the response of "Foreigners: Chapter 2", It is clear that the franchisee requires a touch of Bertino to work at all.

"Increased" feels like Bertino playing some of the same notes he made in "foreigners", including that signature, punishing disorienting sound design, where a simple whisper can scare you and hit like a truck. "Increased" often asks: "What if the" foreigners "were a supernatural head trip?" It is an attractive mixture that at times is really frightening.

The film takes place directly to the streaming of Paramount+ on time for Halloween. That means it will be easy to see and risk being lost in the flow. This deserves to do the list of spooky seasonal watches.

The "increased" hit Paramount+ on October 10, 2025.