For some strange reason Peacock is becoming the home of bad horror movies with They / Them and now the film that i'm about to review for you all today. I have to admit that when I first saw the trailer for this film about a week or so ago I was excited to see this movie because it looked fresh different and funny but now that i've seen the movie I have to say that the opposite is true and so then join me as I review the film that is basically a rip off of the first two Scream movies with the film in question being called simply just "Sick" enjoy.
The plot of this film is during the early stages of quarantine two best friends go to a lake house so that they can quarantine together only to get caught up in a deadly game of cat and mouse. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty pretty weak at best with this films plot being so thinly drawn out that at times it's hard to tell what the actual plot of this film actually is in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Starring in this film is The Craft: Legacy star and Pacific Rim: The Black star Gideon Adlon as Parker Mason and Bethlehem Million as Miri Woodlow. Also starring in this film is Teen Wolf star and Man Of Steel star Dylan Sprayberry as DJ Cole , Super 8 star and The Kissing Booth franchise star Joel Courtney as Tyler Murphy , Alone star Marc Menchaca as Jason and Twin Peaks star Jane Adams as Pamela.
Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty not that bad. With all of this films cast doing their absolutely best to make this films script work well enough for them but the issue is that this films script gives them nothing to work with interms of what their characters personalities are and so the performances can only be OK and nothing more then that since the script won't allow for that.
There are alot of shots in this film in this film especially early on in this film that would have been scarier if they went with a different angle when filming. However with the shots that they chose to go with it makes the film less scary because you can see the killer coming and so there's no impact on the actual scare now because you know that it's coming and when you know that a scare is coming that makes it far less scary and far less effective of a scare and this is something that could have been fixed if you just didn't show us that the killer was present in the scene with us.
To me this film is trying so hard to be like Scream since there are alot of scenes and ideas in this film that were done so much better in that first Scream movie. This really shouldn't come to that much of a surprise since the co-writer and producer of this film is Kevin Williamson who of course created the Scream franchise but even so when your doing something that was done so much better in your most well known horror film then maybe you shouldn't do it in a lesser film like this one because all it does is remind people that they could be watching a much better film.
I will give this film this it is better then They/Them in the fact that this film is at least trying to be good where as that film was just flat out bad. Plus this films satire can be pretty funny at times but at the same time when the satire is only funny half of the time and the other half of the time is filled to the brim with cringe worthy jokes then there's something wrong with your film which is a shame because when this films satire is funny that is more often then not when the film is at it's most entertaining and when it's at it's most enjoyable.
To this films credit it does have some rather likable characters but at the same time it's characters are also very forgettable. This is really doesn't help the film out at all since even tho the whole point might be to make them likable and more like real people you also need to make them memorable for better or for worse i'm always going to remember of They/Them because they were memorable but for all the wrong reasons where as the characters in this film are just straight up forgettable and will be forgotten about by alot of the horror fandom five minuets after they've seen this film.
Now then this film has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly one hour and twenty three minuets and six seconds. Which is both a plus and a negative for this film since it means that we don't have to spend alot of time watching this pretty bad horror film but at the same time it works against the film because it now means that none of this films characters can be fully fleshed out since the film now has to rush to the next plot point which is a shame because this films characters were fully fleshed out it could have gone a long way in helping this film out in the longer run.
So now then since this is a slasher that means that I have to actually talk about the actual kills that are actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual kills that are actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty pretty tame. Even when compared to the kills in other slasher films the kills in this film while they are cool to look at just come across as being lame and kind of tame to look in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Overall this film had all of the potential and all of the pedigree that it needed to be a good solid horror film and yet it just doesn't live up to all of that potential and so all we are left with is a mediocre horror film and nothing more then that in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very film in this very review and as such that means that this very film earns really does itself a grand old score of exactly a 5 out of 10 from me.
Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from IMP Awards . Com , the official Scream fandom wiki page and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get images from this film being Google Images simply because of the fact Google Images actually has alot of images from this film up on Google Images and plus pretty much much all of the images that I personally found on Google Images were all fairly high quality and as well as being as fairly high definition and so then horror fans we ends this review as we always freaking do with our one and true freaking goddess Elvira wishing us all some very freaking unpleasant dreams indeed.
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