Producer: Frank Beddor
Screenwriter: Eric Weiss
Director of Photography: Bernd Heinl
Editor: Daniel Gross
Production Designer: Dominic Watkins
Music: Cliff Martinez
Principal cast: Julia Stiles, Patrick Muldoon, Bill Moses, Linda Hart, Michael Parks, Vanessa Zima.

Wicked - along with Jacques Rivette's Secret Defense - is one of the Festival's two modern-day retellings of the Electra myth. In the words of director Michael Steinberg, the tragic tale of murder and revenge is "dressed up as a pop art murder mystery." Indeed, Wicked is a wickedly funny thriller set in the same sort of overbearingly clean and sterile suburban development depicted in Poltergeist. The Christiansens are a typically dysfunctional family that grows only more dysfunctional when Mom is killed. Julia Stiles gives an eerie, mesmerizing performance as the young daughter who seems a tad too fond of her father. Filled with moments of dark humor, Wicked is one of the most stylish suburban thrillers in years, handsomely produced by Frank Beddor, producer of this year's summer hit, There's Something About Mary. - David Schwartz