Review of Sick Girl (2006) by Kenny N — 13 Apr 2015

There's a good movie in here somewhere. Or at the very least an interesting one. It's micro budget and amateurish acting and directing ultimately are its undoing, but there are moments (Izzy lecturing her brother's bullies, pontificating about the nature of good and evil to her hostages, the car ride on Christmas night) that suggests the person responsible for this had something important to say, but not enough money to say it.

You'll probably skip right over this one without a second thought because it looks like someone's home movies with a ten cent production polish. But of all the multitude of low budget horror films that come from every which way every year, none that were so close to the bottom of the totem pole had an effect on me the way this one did.

It made me feel something: fear, sadness, SOMETHING. That's more than I can say for whatever volume of Halloween they're on currently.