

As the Unnamed Protagonist, we must rescue our sister Reneé from the Crooked Man. This game takes place in 1885 in and around the fictional town of Silvery Coral Village in France. The film runs 1 hour, 27 minutes and was shot in Southern Cal. Cursery: The Crooked Man and the Crooked Cat is the second spin-off game in the Dark Parables franchise.

It's well done for what it is, a TV horror flick, but it needed more oomph and imagination to pull it out of its run-of-the-mill state. Meanwhile Angelique is serviceable as the heroine, but the story doesn't build up enough drive to give it a higher grade. Another positive is the inclusion of curvy Dia Frampton as Mia and petite cutie Alexis Wilkins as Alice. He curiously looks like a shaky, tall version of King Diamond in his top hat. Everything is taken seriously, which is good in my book, and the demon creature is certainly creepy. "The Crooked Man" (2016) is marginally superior to contemporaneous SyFy flicks like "The Hollow," "The Night Before Halloween," "Neverknock" and "Stickman" because it's not as half-baked and the gobbledygook makes more sense. Amber Benson is on hand as the mother of the original victim.

Angelique Rivera plays the protagonist, Cameron Jebo her rookie cop friend and Michael Jai White a man linked to the unleashing of the demon. Six years later she returns to live with her dad, but the creature also returns to kill anyone in town who was at the slumber party. A 12 year-old girl is blamed for the death of a friend at a slumber party that was actually committed by a demonic entity called the Crooked Man.
