“Sick” Movie Review by Rafy Mediavilla (@Rmediavilla) #PeacockTV #SickMovie #TIFF22
The short synopsis read as follows – 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.
I must admit that when I saw that “Sick” made it to the official selection of the Toronto International Film Festival 2022 and knowing that Kevin Williamson the mastermind behind “I Know What You Did Last Summer” and “Scream” was backing this movie It became a no brainer that this was a movie that I needed to see. But truth be told my schedule for chef 22 was so impossible I ended up skipping a screening of this movie today my coverage at the Film Festival hoping that some studio would pick it up and hoping that such studio would grant me screening access, so I was lucky enough to have Peacock Peacock the movie and subsequentially I was offered the Screener from them.
We move forward 4 1/2 months later, I get the Screener I hit play I watched the movie and I come out completely surprised with what I saw because while the trailer gives most of it away what director John Hyams, and writer Katelyn Crabb did was take every single factor that works from the Kevin Williamson repertoire, every single factor that worked with “I Know You Did Last Summer” and “Scream” and cram them into a small simple but effective slasher with the pandemic and subsequential lockdown at the center of the story. I need my book “Sick: became one of the best movies to come out from the pandemic/lockdown era.
And the reason this movie works is because every single factor from Kevin Williamson’s repertoire is used during the development of the story. From the scare tactics of camera movements from the killers hiding their faces and working in pairs to the killers having a connection to the protagonist to the scary gory moments and of course, the never-ending questions of if they will come back from the dead. Everything worked as intended and from beginning to end you see yourself at the edge of your seat hooked on how the story is developing wondering how it will end even though we know we have seen these many times before.
In the end, this is why the movie works it’s not trying to reinvent the wheel to do nothing special it’s just taking a simple story and applying strategies in filmmaking in the horror genre that had been proven to work throughout the years. And in my book, this is another example of a filmmaker’s resiliency in getting creative in tough situations by turning a simple story that even though it brings nothing new to the table gets the job done by entertaining its audience.
If you are a fan of anything that Kevin Williamson has done in the past. “Sick” It’s a movie that will scratch that itch of horror slasher movie fans. And is a must-see once it comes out on Peacock.
