Crap - Sick Girl (2007) Discussion

I have to agree. Amateur all the way around. Terrible acting, directing.

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also agree. i could only watch about 15-20 minutes of it. not because it was disturbing or anything, but i felt very uncomfortable watching those poor people struggle, trying to act... it made me cringe.
VERY amateurish but not in a charming way.

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[–] bouke125 15 years ago

This was dumb and indeed very amateuristic. Weak!

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[–] TheBeardedWonder 15 years ago

NO way, a low budget indie horror movie had bad acting?! Holy crap!

Seriously guys, take this for what it is, or move on. All I expected was to be grossed out for 80 mins, which I was. Especially towards the end. With all the sick twisted sexual stuff, plus the child murders? This was an intense piece of low budget film making. You can't really hold it to the same standards as a studio backed epic.

If you're a fan of this genre, and don't mind the low budget look/sound to it, there's some good horror movie ideas in here... my opinion anyway...

"Andrew, we can't possibly be dead. We have cable." - Nothing

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[–] David_Bro 14 years ago

NO way, a low budget indie horror movie had bad acting?! ... You can't really hold it to the same standards as a studio backed epic

I expect good acting in any movie. In fact, I usually find non studio backed films to have better acting and stories.

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[–] Dali-Fan 14 years ago

I didn't hold this bit of sh!te to any standard. I just called it as I saw it.

"I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring." JG Ballard

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[–] jneedleman 14 years ago

Thunder-Gore: Clearly, they've never made it through the kinds of good-bad flicks that are research labs for innovative horror. A lot of the acting in the original Texas Chainsaw isn't stellar, either.

The real difference isn't in the acting but the story and editing. Chainsaw became a classic not because of the acting but the story, tone, imagery and music (which predated industrial by eight years). Most horror films don't wander in an indie faux-character-study way -- the directors know they're working with a variant of classic melodrama and keep the story taut. Whereas Sick Girl wants to reference Cassavettes and Juno, and bogs down the flow with banal exchanges in static settings. This foregrounds the unremarkable acting in ways a normal horror film wouldn't, and makes the actors look amateurish.

The other problem is that the camera lingers for far too long. In great bad movies, this is done to comic effect (Henenlotter did it deliberately in movies like Basketcase II). But Sick Girl isn't funny, and it wants to be a fast-paced film despite the director's ambitions. It doesn't want to get lost in meandering conversations that are supposed to develop the characters, and it doesn't want to force characters to emote and then stay on them too long, which makes the acting look worse.

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[–] ki11er7 15 years ago

I was only grossed out by the acting.

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[–] Crepusculo 14 years ago

Just finished watching this and honestly i didn't see it coming. I knew it would be kinda brutal, but not like this. Overal i'd consider this a very crappy movie, from the acting, the story, the soundtrack... it's called "sick girl" and it indeed made me sick, so maybe that was the whole point.

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[–] mikehouston2000 14 years ago

Overall, I wouldn't recommend this movie.

The bad: The acting is very poor, there are so many moments when the characters just stare at each other waiting for the next line to be delivered. The sound is like an early 80's horror film.

The good: Great story for a horror. You really feel for the characters.

A French production company could really do something with it, the U.S. just doesn't have any balls.

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[–] A_Perfect_Circle_1976 14 years ago

I rented it from Netflix and watched it today. Low-budget but quite effective. Leslie was one crazy dame, and the last ten minutes were intense.

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[–] Zombie_Fanatic 14 years ago

I didn't find this to be one of the best horror films but damn, this was some f'ed up sadistic sh*t! And that is what I expected! I felt I had seen it all but damn, when she cuts off the guys d*ck, rams it onto a spike with a board attached, straps it on and goes to town on that tied up chick, that was crazy! Supposedly this movie was made with peanuts so I thought they did the best they could with the money. Definitely not for the squeamish or faint of heart...

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[–] AmieEvelynLavinia 9 years ago

That is the only good part of the movie I think.
What a sadistic and twisted sex toy that was (;
If only the movie has actually been better ...

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[–] mikebourkefan 9 years ago

I loved it as a matter of fact "izzy" in this was more psycho then Pauline in "Excision"

Rob Zombie is one of the greatest directors today

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[–] phatpaidx 14 years ago

Some people in this thread clearly hold movies to way to high of standards. this is a common trend... oh movie didnt meet my high standards it sucks and anyone that likes it suck'd.
tho the op didnt say those that liked it suck it's something i notice alot

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[–] Bobby_vs_Satan 8 years ago

The actress playing Izzy kept taking me out of the movie everytime she talked. So wooden and stiff, like she was reading the lines as she delivered them. Actually, even more wooden and stiff than what she used in the barn! lol.
I like in movies how people only have the field of vision that the camera has. No-one in a movie ever sees a weapon in plain view about to be used on them because the camera is only showing the upper torso or head of the assailant. RE: Barney in the barn and the axe. I always get a laugh out of someone not stopping what could easily be deflected or stopped in real life but in movies....fatal.

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[–] Bobby_vs_Satan 8 years ago

The actress playing Izzy kept taking me out of the movie everytime she talked. So wooden and stiff, like she was reading the lines as she delivered them. Actually, even more wooden and stiff than what she used in the barn! lol.
I like in movies how people only have the field of vision that the camera has. No-one in a movie ever sees a weapon in plain view about to be used on them because the camera is only showing the upper torso or head of the assailant. RE: Barney in the barn and the axe. I always get a laugh out of someone not stopping what could easily be deflected or stopped in real life but in movies....fatal.
Also her running down the guy in the beginning and being able to over power him was ridiculous. What is it with movie makers trying to have these elfish girls being so bad ass. If it's not taking down groups of trained men in hand to hand it's crap like this where they can easily overpower and elaborately maneuver bodies much heavier than themselves.

I'll sign off with a positive. I liked the scene where the stranger gives her a ride. Good tension on whether she was going to kill him or not and I like the way they teased he might say or do something at any moment that would trigger an unhappy Christmas.

I also liked the reveal that her brother had actually been KIA and that was what probably mentally unhinged her for good

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