Sick
Girl
Director:
Eben McGarr
2007
Drama/Horror
Izzy is a young girl with some serious issues. She
misses her older brother who joined up with the Marine Corps with whom she
wanted to raise their little brother as their child. She’s overprotective about
him and she stops at noting to teach bullies a lesson. She also kidnapped a
schoolgirl and some dude who was unfortunate enough to pick her up when she was
hitchhiking. And oh… She pissed a nun in the face…
I heard a
lot about this movie and all of it was good too! This means that I got a little
disappointed when I saw it just now. It’s always like that; you build up you
expectations in your mind and the film comes out short. Don’t get me wrong, it’s
a gruesome film that’s for sure, but the acting is less than good too much of
the time. When they – and the girl who plays Izzy especially – act out emotions
it’s just fine, but when it comes to deliver trustworthy dialog it’s an
entirely different thing. But the dialog is quite bad too so I guess that evens
it up a bit.
The
weird stuff starts right away with Izzy pissing a nun in the face but after
that it kind of slows down a bit. The story is told with several flashback and
you need to stay alert to really understand what’s going on. There’s a lot of character
building and it’s quite boring to watch if I’m honest. It doesn’t get
interesting again until we get to see what Izzy keeps in the barn. And we gets
to realize just how fucked up she really is!
Gradually
the movie now gets more interesting even if the pace is on the slow side. When
it comes to torture I think this movie falls short compared to other more
explicit movies, but it’s so deranged that you can help but think what’s going
on inside this girls mind! She keeps a straight face throughout the movie and
that adds to the frightening feeling that this could be just anybody anywhere.
You just can’t know what other people are thinking and what their most inner
desires are. And once you realize it, it just might be too late!
6/10
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