The pandemic of COVID-19 was a dark and critical moment for the world, and at the same time, it was a test of fire for all humanity, from one hour to another, we were forced to leave life as we knew it behind and enclose ourselves inside our homes, alone or accompanied, this was a test of fire where many did not come out approved. Marriages broke up, domestic violence increased, and unfortunately, we also saw an increase in the number of victims of depression and loneliness resulting from isolation, besides the most tragic and regrettable fact, which was the loss of thousands of lives.
And since it is in the midst of difficulties that the character of a person is proven, it was in the midst of all this chaos and tragedy that we had our character proven, and humanity in general was approved with great waves of solidarity and chains of good forming all over the planet, so that we could survive all that, but unfortunately, we also saw with surprise the contempt of some people, mostly young people, for human life. These people mocked the virus while partying, did not protect themselves and thereby helped to spread the disease, not only to themselves, but to defenseless victims such as family members and friends.
We watched all the absurdities of this wing, and deep inside our being, I believe that most of us clamored for a karmic justice for these selfish beings, and maybe at some point we even wanted them to be arrested and judged for all the harm they caused to society, but all we could do was think about it, since any kind of punishment would certainly hurt the right to come and go that we hold so dear, and then all we could do was pray to the heavens that these people would finally understand and come to their senses.
But in Sick 2022, we see things going beyond the unthinkable and taking a totally dark turn when after a group of college students decide to break the quarantine, causing terrible consequences not only for themselves, but for everyone around them.
The film begins with Tyler (Joel Courtney) being brutally attacked and murdered in his house by strangers, in the sequence, we meet friends Parker (Gideon Adlon) and Miri (Bethlehem Million), who decide to go spend the quarantine at the house of the latter, and soon we see that Miri and obsessed with the care of the pandemic, while Parker and totally negligent on the subject, but makes some concessions for friendship, and arriving at the cabin the girls enjoy the beauty of the place, while strange things start happening around them, with strange messages arriving, a constant feeling that the two are not alone, but they think it might be someone from the class after all they posted for everyone to know they were going to the lake house, of course nothing is safer than anyone knowing their location, when their location is practically in the middle of nowhere.
The tension builds until the night when someone knocks on the door, and the girls are scared, but after much suspense we find out its DJ Cole (Dylan Sprayberry), Park's boyfriend with whom she just broke up, after a light discussion between the trio, The girls allow him to spend the night and leave in the morning, and we are left in the tension believing that DJ is the killer, after all he has appeared in the middle of nowhere is strange to say the least, but after they all go crazy together and go to sleep at the end of the night we are faced with the terrible reality.
When in the middle of the night, the killer breaks into the house just as he had done in Tyler's house and, after a chase kills DJ, Parker enters into a body fight with him and seriously wounds him, which makes us discover that in fact it's not just one but two killers because already Parker wounds one of the killers, another one enters right behind, Parker then runs to save his own life, while Miri pretends to be dead to survive, then in a frantic sequence Parker fights the killer in the lake, manages to reach the neighbor's house, who is also murdered, and in the sequence she manages to get rid of him, and get a ride with a lady who almost leaves her to die while demanding a mask, and then gives her one, and as soon as she puts the mask and gets in the car we find out that in reality, there are three killers, as Parker under the effect of some drug passed out to be taken back to the cabin.
Meanwhile, at the house, Miri, already a little bit recovered, gets a fright when the man they thought was dead attacks her, she then finishes him off, and when she thinks the danger is over, she sees Parker arrive passed out with the two strangers and hides, and presently the Twister plot of the movie is revealed, and we find out that these three are, in fact, the father, mother and brother of a boy with whom Parker stayed at a party, they do a test on Parker and explain that she is asymptomatic, at this moment we understand the motivation of the killers, and we discover that Parker is not a random victim.
We found out that all this is due to one of these parties, that some groups gave in the pandemic without thinking about the consequences and without respecting any of the recommendations of distance that in the following weeks resulted in very sick and even in deaths as was the case in the movie, I understand that the parents' revolt is legitimate, After all, if Parker hadn't given the party, maybe Benji would be alive, but I am not convinced that the fault was only Parker's, after all we are talking about a young adult with the competence to make his own decisions and who decided on his own to go to a party that shouldn't be happening, and not only didn't use a mask, but also kissed a stranger, thus being infected.
That is, like many who unfortunately died in similar circumstances in the real world, Benji paid the consequences of his attitudes, and his justice parents decided to kill Parker so that their son could be avenged, and in the process lost their eldest son, nothing more stupid than this, the thirst for revenge of these parents left them literally with nothing.
In the aftermath, after finding out that miri is alive, Jason (Marc Menchaca), goes out to check and meanwhile miri takes the opportunity with Parker to confront Pamela (Jane Adams) and in the aftermath, they manage to kill Jason, who returns home and the sequence they run to the barn, to try to get a vehicle to escape, When Pamela appears again, for another fight sequence where Parker and Mirim end up setting fire to her, who proves that she is really irrational and runs away instead of throwing herself on the ground and rolling over which would put out the fire, but in her case I don't know if they would help much.
Anyway, as in every self-respecting slasher movie, when everything is already over, the police arrive to rescue our surviving heroines.
I found Sick to be a very competent slasher horror, but eventually, I thought they should have put an aftermath of the girls coming back to their lives, with Parker perhaps becoming a more aware person.
