Review by: Goremetal 666
Date: 22nd May 2008
I will be the first to admit, I really do not get all the raves for Lucky McKee’s debut May. It was a
fairly competent looking film, but for me it didn’t do anything. Bearing this in mind, I gave McKee
the benefit of the doubt when I recently watched his follow up film, The Woods, and was quite
surprised at how well it had been put together and how it held my interest really well.
This brings us to Sick Girl, McKee’s episode in the Masters of Horror series. Ida Teeter (Angela
Bettis, May) is a full blown entomologist (the people who really like bugs) and a lesbian to boot.
One day a mysterious parcel turns up at her apartment, which contains one of the ugliest looking
bugs you will ever see...Meanwhile, a shy, creepy looking girl, Misty Falls (Erin Brown AKA the one
and only Misty Mundae, who is like a Rene Bond for the 2000’s), has been hanging around in the
lobby at the science facility where Ida works, drawing and keeping an eye on Ida. After much
convincing from her colleague Max (Jesse Hlubik), Ida finally plucks up the courage to ask Misty
out on a date, to which she says yes. The pair go out and have a rather awkward dinner before
going back to Ida’s to watch a movie, have a drink and ultimately have sex. The problem is, the
bug Ida received earlier has escaped and has taken refuge in Ida’s pillow. When Misty finally dozes
off, the bug sticks a straw looking thing in her ear and fills it full of goo (think Elmer in Frank
Hennenlotter’s Brain Damage), which proceeds to possess Misty and turn her from a shy little
woman into a raving psycho lunatic!
The problem with Sick Girl is the horror element comes in a little too late for me. Character
buildups are a weird thing - sometimes the characters really draw you in even if the film itself is
stretched out, but sometimes they just make for dull viewing. For me, Sick Girl falls dead in the
middle. It’s good to know about the characters, but some of the action could’ve been brought
forward a bit. The whole movie is almost like a dark romantic comedy for the first 40 minutes, but
when the action finally arrives it makes for one hell of an ending. The last part of Sick Girl, my
friends, is like a Cronenberg movie that he never made.
McKee should feel really lucky to have been selected for the Masters of Horror series (he was
selected after George Romero had to pull out), but, to his credit, he delivers a mildly entertaining
episode, even if it is one of the weaker ones in the series.
Date: 22nd May 2008
I will be the first to admit, I really do not get all the raves for Lucky McKee’s debut May. It was a
fairly competent looking film, but for me it didn’t do anything. Bearing this in mind, I gave McKee
the benefit of the doubt when I recently watched his follow up film, The Woods, and was quite
surprised at how well it had been put together and how it held my interest really well.
This brings us to Sick Girl, McKee’s episode in the Masters of Horror series. Ida Teeter (Angela
Bettis, May) is a full blown entomologist (the people who really like bugs) and a lesbian to boot.
One day a mysterious parcel turns up at her apartment, which contains one of the ugliest looking
bugs you will ever see...Meanwhile, a shy, creepy looking girl, Misty Falls (Erin Brown AKA the one
and only Misty Mundae, who is like a Rene Bond for the 2000’s), has been hanging around in the
lobby at the science facility where Ida works, drawing and keeping an eye on Ida. After much
convincing from her colleague Max (Jesse Hlubik), Ida finally plucks up the courage to ask Misty
out on a date, to which she says yes. The pair go out and have a rather awkward dinner before
going back to Ida’s to watch a movie, have a drink and ultimately have sex. The problem is, the
bug Ida received earlier has escaped and has taken refuge in Ida’s pillow. When Misty finally dozes
off, the bug sticks a straw looking thing in her ear and fills it full of goo (think Elmer in Frank
Hennenlotter’s Brain Damage), which proceeds to possess Misty and turn her from a shy little
woman into a raving psycho lunatic!
The problem with Sick Girl is the horror element comes in a little too late for me. Character
buildups are a weird thing - sometimes the characters really draw you in even if the film itself is
stretched out, but sometimes they just make for dull viewing. For me, Sick Girl falls dead in the
middle. It’s good to know about the characters, but some of the action could’ve been brought
forward a bit. The whole movie is almost like a dark romantic comedy for the first 40 minutes, but
when the action finally arrives it makes for one hell of an ending. The last part of Sick Girl, my
friends, is like a Cronenberg movie that he never made.
McKee should feel really lucky to have been selected for the Masters of Horror series (he was
selected after George Romero had to pull out), but, to his credit, he delivers a mildly entertaining
episode, even if it is one of the weaker ones in the series.
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Masters Of Horror: Sick Girl
DVD/APPROX. 60 MINS/2006/USA UNRATED
DVD/APPROX. 60 MINS/2006/USA UNRATED
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