Sick

Parker and her best friend take off to her family's secluded second home to quarantine during the rise of the COVID 19 pandemic, but a stalker has followed them there, and a Nightmare scenario begins.

The trailer really interested me, I'm intrigued by people's views and actions in regards to the pandemic, and I love a good slasher movie, the result was a competent and quite exciting mix.

Really interesting to consider who's side you're on, I won't give Nothing away, but by the end, you may well question if you're on Parker's side of not.

It's not heavy on the politics, they don't push a narrative either way, Covid plays a part, but it's just the backdrop for the situation.

Competently acted and visually pretty good, there are definitely a few thrills and spills along the way, it certainly opens with an audience grabbing scene.

This was pretty good.

7/10.

Plot

Due to the pandemic, Parker and her best friend decide to quarantine at the family lake house alone - or so they think.

Cast

Marc Menchaca was the only one I was familiar with though Gideon Adlon was excellent here.

Verdict

Within horror the slasher sub-genre is way down there. I'm not sure if I'm just not keen on them or if it's because I'm burnt out watching them but I'm rarely impressed. They tend to be extremely formulaic and Sick, follows the formula to the letter.

A totally predictable slasher film with an unimpressive killer and interesting but flawed motivations I walked away from Sick feeling like I'd already seen it because for all intent and purpose I in fact had.

It looks the part (Except for that house which looks like it's made of inflatable yellow buffers) and our leading lady is solid but there's nothing memorable about it. It's entirely colour by numbers and that's just plain lazy.

Rants

With the COVID setting I knew what I'd find in the one star reviews and as usual you didn't disappoint. The conspiracies, the paranoia, the use of the word propaganda by people who don't know what it means. The fact that people deny and politicize a pandemic that killed millions of people is horrifying. Can you imagine if the internet existed in the times of Polio and TB, the paranoid chaotic absurdity regarding vaccines? What a scary thought.

The Good

Gideon Adlon Interesting killer motivation

The Bad

Very predictable Instantly forgettable Bland supporting cast That house, I mean seriously what was that all about?

There are some movies you know 5 minutes going into it that it's going to be worth the while. This was such a movie. The beginning was suspenseful out of the gate and had me looking away. Great action, scary, decent acting and the kind of slasher that I would gladly see a sequel of. It had me jump several times and was just generally creepy. It actually had a similar feel to Scream which I love. It had also a sense of realism that this could actually happen that I appreciated. The characters actually did semi-intelligent things as opposed to just plain stupid decisions. It didn't insult the viewers intelligence. Finally I really liked the homage to the whole period of lock down COVID. There were a few parts that actually had me laughing because of how ridiculous and paranoid the first days of lockdown were for people. They need to make more slashers like this that are truly scary from beginning to end. Keep them coming!

I'm officially at the age where it's really hard to relate to this generation of whiny, social media addicted kids. I truly wanted all of the characters to die.

Also, even though it's very different, it's still too similar to Scream. From the opening scene, to the knife yielding, black clad killer, to the set pieces, it is very derivative of the better slasher.

The fact that it takes place during the pandemic seems very irrelevant. It feels very gimmicky, honestly.

Three people hole up in a lake house to quarantine. A guy dressed like a ninja shows up and it becomes one of those home invasion flicks, where the victims get stalked and hunted in ever more ludicrous scenarios. Something else happens that was enough to keep me intrigued and from turning it off, though.

But the bulk of the movie is that. People being attacked by masked intruder.

Sure, in the end they try to tie it all back to Covid, but ultimately, this flimsyly plotted trifle will not stand the test of time. Destined for the trash heap of horror history. 86 min is the runtime of this movie and roughly how long it will take me to forget it.

Kitty cat pig. Oink oink.

This was just a mediocre slasher movie with hardly any edge-of-the-seat moments. It was another COVID themed movie. I've seen a couple of others but they were quarantine themed.

Once in a while I come across a movie where I despised the protagonist and felt no sympathy towards them whatsoever. This was another one of those movies.

In this instance it was Parker that I despised. She was careless, promiscuous and very much self-centred. I felt sorry for Miri who suffered simply for being there with Parker. I felt sorry for DJ and Mr. Lyons who basically died because of Parker.

I felt sorry for Pamela and her husband and could understand why they were doing what they did. Simple revenge for their son's death because of COVID which they believed Parker was the one that infected their son at the party.

Anyway this was just an average movie which is surprising for Blumhouse because they usually produce some really decent movies.