Sick (2022 film)

Sick
File:SickFilmPoster.jpg Film poster
Directed by	John Hyams
Produced by	Kevin Williamson Bill Block Ben Fast
Written by	Kevin Williamson Katelyn Crabb
Starring	Gideon Adlon Bethlehem Million Dylan Sprayberry Joel Courtney Marc Menchaca Jane Adams
Music by	Nima Fakhrara
Cinematography	Yaron Levy
Edited by	Andrew Drazek
Production company	Miramax Blumhouse Productions Outerbanks Entertainment
Distributed by	Peacock
Release dates	September 11, 2022 (2022-09-11) (TIFF) January 13, 2023 (2023-01-13) (United States)
Running time	83 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Sick is a 2022 American slasher film directed by John Hyams and written by Kevin Williamson and Katelyn Crabb. The film stars Gideon Adlon and Bethlehem Million. The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 11, 2022 and was released on January 13, 2023 by Peacock.

Plot

In April 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic, college student Tyler Murphy is stalked by an anonymous figure while shopping at a convenience store. When Tyler gets home, the masked intruder ambushes and kills him.

Parker Mason takes her best friend, Miri Woodlow, to her family's lake house to quarantine. They arrive at the isolated lake house when Parker receives a cryptic text message. The girls head to a small dock to tan, and Parker receives another message, unsettling them both. Later that day, the two play a drinking game about Dr. Anthony Fauci while watching the news. An unknown visitor arrives in the driveway and is unresponsive when he knocks on the door. Parker heads outside with a knife, but sees no one. The figure enters through the backdoor, but it is revealed to be DJ, Parker's fling who came to the lake house uninvited. Now night, the three smoke marijuana and dance before deciding to go to sleep. After Miri leaves for her room, DJ confronts Parker about an Instagram post which showed her kissing someone named Benji at a party. DJ proposes that they be committed partners, but Parker disagrees and DJ agrees to leave the house in the morning. DJ then goes to his car, but a masked figure enters the house while his back is turned.

While everyone is sleeping, the intruder steals everyone's phones. DJ and Parker wake up when loud music begins to play from downstairs. After he saw the intruder, DJ tells Parker to get out of the house and wait in his car. Outside, Parker sees the intruder sneak into Miri's room through the window, and screams to wake her up. Miri runs to join Parker in the car while DJ grapples with the intruder inside. DJ nearly gets away but the intruder stabs him multiple times when he is knocked down. When the door opens and DJ shuffles outside, Parker leaves the car to investigate. She soon realizes that DJ's feet are not touching the ground, and the intruder is holding DJ up with a tapestry banner that is pierced in his back. He then kills DJ, and chases after the girls who drive away in the car. The car gets stuck, and the intruder chases them.

Miri and Parker run to the roof, but Miri is pushed off to the ground. Parker runs to the kitchen, and beats the intruder down. A second intruder then enters and checks on their counterpart. Parker runs outside and talks to Miri, whose leg is broken. The second intruder sees them and chases Parker towards the lake, and she detaches part of the dock and rows herself across towards the neighbors house. In the middle of the lake, the intruder appears from the water, stabbing Parker and forcing her to swim the rest of the way. She arrives at the neighbor's house who confronts her with a shotgun before agreeing to call the police. However he is immediately stabbed, and the intruder once again chases Parker.

Parker makes it to the main road and momentarily knocks the intruder down as a car approaches. She begs the woman who is driving to help her, but the driver insists she put a mask on first. The mask the driver supplies turns out to be laced with chloroform, knocking Parker out. The driver and the intruder drive back to the lake house with Parker and performs a COVID-19 test on her. The two are revealed to be husband and wife named Jason and Pamela, while their oldest son is the other intruder who is now deceased. They reveal that Benji is their youngest son and that he died of COVID-19. They suspect that Parker infected him at the party as her COVID-19 test reveals she is positive, and they wish to avenge him by killing her. They also admit to the murder of Tyler Murphy as he was the one who infected her. When Jason leaves, Miri sneaks up and knocks Pamela over. The two defenestrate her and then impale Jason on deer antlers. The two escape to a nearby barn before Pamela arrives and attacks them. After Parker pours gasoline on her, Miri sets Pamela on fire. The police arrive as the two friends watch Pamela burn.

Cast

• Gideon Adlon as Parker Mason
• Bethlehem Million as Miri Woodlow
• Dylan Sprayberry as DJ Cole
• Joel Courtney as Tyler Murphy
• Marc Menchaca as Jason
• Jane Adams as Pamela

Production

In May 2021, it was announced that Miramax green lit the film with Kevin Williamson and Katelyn Crabb attached to write, along with John Hyams to direct, and Gideon Adlon to star.

Release

The film's title, along with first look images were released on August 4, 2022. The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 11, 2022. The first trailer was released on January 6, 2023, revealing the film would premiere on Peacock the following week on January 13, 2023.

Reception

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 88% of 41 reviews are positive, with an average rating of 7/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "Smart, self-aware, and all too timely, this slasher co-written by Kevin Williamson is Sick in all the best ways." Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 61 out of 100, based on 11 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".

External Links

• Sick at IMDb