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Sick is the best Covid-era movie that I have seen so f... Kevin Williamson has written a new slasher film that takes place during the Covid pandemic quarantine.
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Jan 13, 2023 · Brian reviews the new horror film "Sick" now streaming on Peacock! Let us know what you think of the movie! #SickMovie #Sick #Peacock
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Jan 11, 2023 · From 'Scream's' Kevin Williamson, SICK is a white knuckle adrenaline rush. Rest assured adrenaline junkies: SICK goes hard! Here's our review.
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By Matt Donato
Posted: Oct 17, 2022 2:00 pm
The below is an advanced review out of Beyond Fest. Sick does not yet have a release date.
It's no shock that a slasher co-written by Kevin Williamson goes as hard as Sick does. Williamson and Katelyn Crabb infect Williamson's Scream blueprint with "COVID-19 Horror," instigating terror while under quarantine orders. Sick is breakneck, effortlessly vicious, and leaves you gasping for air — but that's all before the whiplash of its COVID-19 Horror twist. Director John Hyams is punctual and proficient when riffing on Scream's Casey Becker opening death or hyping intensity during pulse-pounding chase sequences. Williamson and Crabb write knife-to-throat tension in the most straightforward formula of Scream meets Friday the 13th meets COVID-19 lockdown protocols — then the complications of coronavirus storytelling take an awkward swerve.
Upfront, Sick is a relentless marathon of cat-and-mouse stalks that "replaces" Ghostface with a ski-masked individual swiping a hunting knife. It's Grade-A lean, aggressively mean, and blisters through dangerous action scenes like a bull in a log cabin vacation home. Anyone can trace shared DNA between Scream and Sick to laptop messenger SOS texts that don't go through to the very Ghostface movements of the unknown assailant. Parker and Miri desperately fight for their lives as a madman targets two vulnerable girls doing nothing more than riding out stay-at-home orders, as efficiently as the great slasher staples have previously accomplished.
That's what's so frustrating. Dropping a home invasion scenario into government-issued quarantines is a genius horror setup. Williamson and Crabb retrace all our early preventative measures, from social distancing to sanitizing groceries to the anxiety of hearing a single cough in public. Sick captures a vulnerable and volatile American moment, and its execution never feels biased or propaganda-ish like in the failed experiment of Dashcam — but then Sick reveals its psychopath. An element of "COVID-19 Rage" attempts to serve as cathartic… entertainment? Yet, Williamson and Crabb betray the effectiveness of Sick with a convoluted coronavirus freakout that doesn't play as smoothly. Elements of pandemic carelessness become a confusing look for all characters, albeit based purely on reckless human impulses. I'll admit, there were moments when my crowd erupted with rowdy cheers when I could not, stuck pondering the deeper meanings of cheering at graphic demises.
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To say Sick ends with divisive fury is just about all I can reveal without spoilers, so that's what you get — but "divisive" should be in all caps. For a while, Sick feels chummy with something consistently on-attack like Hush or The Strangers while nailing the "COVID-19 Horror" formula of finding familiar genre frights in lockdown landscapes like The Harbinger. Gideon Adlon and Bethlehem Million portray all of us struggling with misconceptions (read: misinformation) about youth being a protection from the virus or choosing which safety precautions we acknowledge. Sick ranges pandemic reactions and (mostly) does well to observe instead of voice opinions while delivering slasher ferocity that compares Hyams to Wes Craven in favorable lights (well, more like doorway shadows). The hunt-stalk-eliminate primality of Sick is always its crowning material, which cannot be understated. If Terrifier 2 is a rebirth of ‘80s slaughter spectacles, Sick is the second coming of right-behind-you ‘90s slashers.
Sick is at its best when riffing Scream for the pandemic age, propelled by frightening impulses, and at its worst when presuming the internal conflict of watching COVID-19 Horror during an ongoing epidemic isn't enough. Kevin Williamson and Katelyn Crabb seem to crack that code of using America's lockdown as a backdrop for staple horror subgenres u...
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As the pandemic steadily brings the world to a halt, Parker and her best friend Miri decide to quarantine at the family lake house alone--or so they think.
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Sep 18, 2022 · Sick Review: Kevin Williamson’s Return to the Slasher Is Shot Through with Covid Anxities. Throughout, director John Hyams brings kinetic heat to Sick ’s slasher trappings. by Mark Hanson. September 18, 2022. Photo: Toronto International Film Festival.
