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Lucky me. I got a sneak peak at this pathetic little shot-in-Texas 'horror' flick from Artisan Entertainment a week before it hit video store shelves and, let me tell you, I've rarely laughed so hard in my life! This is so bad it easily steals the title of 'Worst Killer Clown Movie' from the insufferably stupid Full Moon fiasco KILLJOY. From all indications, this was shot on DV and it doesn't really 'look' all that bad quality-wise for digital, but boy does it ever fail miserably in every other area where it counts!

The story (slight and cliche as it is) goes as follows... An extremely douchey executive (Ken Hebert, who also scripted and co-produced with the director) takes skeptical co-worker Tracy (Amanda Watson) and horny married couple Mark and Susan (Hank Fields and Chris Bruck) along on a weekend getaway to a secluded cabin '12 miles' from the nearest town. On the way there, they pick up a bitchy/slutty hitchhiker (Melissa Bale) in a bar and end up at their destination where a nightly campfire tale about a murderous clown stalking the very same wooded area comes true when each of the foul-mouthed, pot-smokin' 'friends' disappears one-by-one, with only mutilated doll parts left behind to tell the tale of their fates.

The killer clown doesn't even show up in the film until near the end and it looks nothing like the demonic depiction of it on the video box aside from being morbidly obese. It basically spends an hour prancing around in the woods, chopping up wood and blabbing nursery rhymes. I cannot say enough bad things about the cast, especially the two guys and the hitchhiker chick, who either deliver their insipid dialogue with a bare minimum of enthusiasm or overact at the most inappropriate times. Doesn't really help that the dialogue is awful. I could go on for days on how inept this film is, how many continuity errors there are, how many pointless nature / animal shots are hilariously cut in at the strangest times and how amateurish the whole production is, but I'll just sign off by pointing out the whole package is quite a laugh riot in that Boy-This-Sucks kind of way.

Also noting that the film has been released here in the US as S.I.C.K. (SERIAL INSANE CLOWN KILLER). It's currently catalogued under its (original title) of GRIM WEEKEND.

Score: 1 out of 10

This was, so far, the worst movie I have seen in my entire life, and I have seen some REALLY bad movies. I saw this movie at my local video store, and the cover looked like it could be a decent horror movie. Little did I know that the cover would be the best part of the movie. Where to start? The filming of the movie was scattered and boring. At one point, there is a one-minute scene of no one talking, just a car driving to a ranch on a normal sunny day. Nothing happened, they just drove in silence. The whole movie is boring, with annoying, unbelievable dialogue and basically no plot to speak of. If you rent this movie, watch it with some friends and it might make a good comedy. Otherwise, when you see this movie, run.

If this film was a comedy, I would have given it a 10. Oh my, where do I begin? Put it this way -- I've seen lots of terrible horror films, but this one makes Troll 2 look like freakin' Saving Private Ryan. It's as if a group of porn filmmakers decided to make a horror film, changed their mind in midproduction and decided to do a comedy, then went back to horror, and then decided that they should have just stuck with porno (softcore at that). Everything about this film is simply terrible: the musical score (someone shoot the guy who invented the Yamaha keyboard), the script, the directing, the cinematography, the acting. There simply are no words to describe this. Oh wait, yes there are: Holy $*%!.

I have lurked on IMDb for years since I never felt motivated enough to go thru the registration process in order to comment on movies. Last night my wife and I rented S.I.C.K. in keeping with a tradition of watching bad horror movies when there isn't anything else to watch. As you can see I finally felt strongly enough to register. Every movie seems to have at least *something* that you can point to that isn't a complete loss. This movie has nothing. As my title suggests - it is EXCREMENT. Totally laughable. Some high (or is it low?) lights: * The husband running from the clown. He looked like he was holding up an imaginary skirt to keep it dry as he ran. The clown walked and still caught up with him. * A "horrible" scream occurs, then we see several scenes of the forest as a reaction to the scream. One is of a pair of unconcerned deer obviously in a zoo somewhere but edited in as though they were in the same forest. * A clown killer just appears in the story - no back story to explain where he came from or his relation to the main story * Some mutilated dude is discovered in a tent in the forest. No explanation of who he is either - and he's just left to rot by the husband! * So you don't have the budget to shoot anywhere cool? Fine - use no wide shots. I think this may have been done in a Texas suburb.

Actors that can't act AT ALL. A director that couldn't compete with grade school children in directing. Music? The person that gave the idea about holding down the Samba 2 key had it pretty on target. Dialog? Vomit.

The money spent on this movie? WHO COULD HAVE GREENLIGHTED THIS? PLEASE...GIVE THE MONEY TO ME INSTEAD!!!!

S.I.C.K. really stands for So Incredibly Crappy i Killed myself. There was absolutely no acting to speak of. The best part of the whole production was the art work on the cover of the box.The budgeting of this movie was sufficient. The filming was sub sesame street. The production looks like that of the underground filming for mob hits. The props used in this movie were stolen from a clothing store. The ending was so predictable you should fast forward to the last 5 minutes and laugh. If there is a book out there for this movie I'm sure it's better. I would avoid this at all costs. I did enjoy the intimate scenes they made the whole movie worth it. just kidding.

This movie is actually called S.I.C.K. I watched this movie last night and it is worthless, terrible acting, terrible plot, terrible directing. If you see this in the video store do not rent it, you will be sorry. This movie isn't worth watching for free. Absolute crap 1/10.

I watched this movie a few days ago and I don't even know where to begin... how this movie got past production is beyond me. Who in there right mind didn't stop these people who made this? How did the people that made this think these ideas were original or scary? Here are some of the classic punchlines and clichés from the movie. One of my favorites is when the car doesn't work as they are finally trying to escape. How about the choice of the scary woods setting and the crazy killer obese clown. All signs of this smart movie making. I also enjoyed how the film was shot in the daylight for every scene. Who likes it to be dark in a scary movie were people are being killed...o wait, only 2 people die in the entire movie anyway. I guess I can't be picky though considering the movie was shot with a camera one can pick up from walmart, so they did a good job with the resources they had. The acting is unbelievably sub par. Must have been the first movie for most of them. Then again anyone would look stupid trying to pull of saying some of the lines in this dialogue with a straight face, so I give them some credit. Luckily i didn't have nightmares of that psycho clown or his goolish hideout. The signing of children's nursery rhymes really pushed him over the top as far as scariness. The twist ending also implies that some forms of incest were occurring throughout the movie. so i guess thats cool now. They also do well with the dolls in places such as the fridge, who would have ever thought. I could goon for much longer. I do recommend the movie if your bored and in need of some laughs. "What did you do"

So I rented this back in 2006 and I stumbled upon it again recently and wanted to write a review.

let me go over something. I love awful so bad they are good movie. I can't get enough of em. This does not fall under that category. its just plain awful. The acting is bad. Cinematography is bad. Its all just bad. The only reason me and my friends watched the entire thing was because we had payed for it

Me and a group of friends rent horrible videos to laugh at them, trust me it has lead to some horribly spent money but also some great laughs. S.I.C.K. is one of the better horror-but-funny movie we've rented. The plot is over-done, the whole take your friends into the woods and never return thing is very old. The goriest part of the movie looks like your visiting the local butcher shop except a little dirtier and with blood on the play dough looking meat. And if anyone has ever been scared of this movie at any time they should stick to Cartoon Network for the rest of their life, it's pathetic. The good aspects of the movie are that the two girls in it are reasonably hot, one better then the other and you see them both naked during the movie. The other good aspect is that this movie is so bad at times that you will laugh till you cry. I don't like watching horrible acting or renting these horrible videos, I don't find that fun but seeing the amount of effort these people put into it and still come out so bad is hilarious and worth renting.Unless you are too mature to laugh at someone's downfalls I would recommend it.

If your renting/buying it to laugh at it I'd give it an 8.5.

I found Grim Weekend's colourful cover at my local Blockbuster Video and was intrigued as to what kind of movie it actually was. I checked with the IMDB and no one had yet posted a review, but thankfully there was a link to the film's official site, which included a small preview. From the clip I gathered that it didn't include the most talented cast in the world, but it looked plausibly tight and brimming with suspense! Believe me, if you've seen it you'll understand where I'm coming from. Keeping in mind the trailer is only two minutes long and the movie is over eighty, it's not always overly conclusive as to what's in store for you when you finally watch. I had a good feeling about this one though and went ahead and bought an ex-rental copy anyway. This is listed on most websites as a TV movie, but judging by some of the bad language – the C word, no less – I found the idea of that rather questionable. It looks more to me like a typical direct to video effort, but who am I to argue?

In the opening we see a point of view murder that proves Director Bob Willems is a big fan of Halloween and is paying his homage (or completely ripping it off? Whatever you want to call it!). An adulterous wife, or girlfriend (actually we never find out who she is and this scene has NOTHING to do with the rest of the movie!) is on the phone when someone creeps up and stabs her in the stomach. As she recoils from the wound she asks ‘what did you do', which I actually found pretty amusing! I kept expecting the killer to reply ‘what do you think I did dummy'; but the scriptwriter instead decided to try to keep things creepy… Next up we meet Brandon Walker (Ken Hebert), an office executive that's planning a weekend getaway to a remote cabin out in the woods. It'd be a pretty boring movie if he went alone, so we are soon introduced to his date Tracy (Amanda Watson) and their friends Susan (Chris Bruck) and Mark (Hank Fields). Whilst on the long journey to the previously abandoned house, they meet Diane (Melissa Bale) in a bar and she soon joins the troupe of merry campers. After they have arrived and night falls, the group sit round a fire and tell ghost stories – so far so Friday the 13th -, but we see that they are being watched by an ominous presence. The next morning when everyone wakes up, Susan has disappeared and someone has filled the area with bizarre mutilated dolls. Before long they are stranded with only a ruthless killer clown for company!

Grim Weekend is a prime example of a movie putting most of the good bits into the trailer, leaving about an hour and a half of screen time totally devoid of anything redeeming. There are only three, yes THREE on screen murders in the whole film. The first is about two minutes into the feature and the next over an hour after. They're all mostly bloodless and instantly forgettable, which makes me wonder why the BBFC rated this as an 18. The killer clown is especially obnoxious, spending most of his time singing nursery rhymes or chopping wood for what seems like an eternity before he finally gets to terrorising the campers. The performances are as horrible as you can possibly imagine and the characters are mostly unsympathetic and flat. Mark finds a gutted victim lying in the woodland struggling for breath and makes no attempt to comfort or help him. He just looks at him completely emotionlessly and then wanders off leaving him to die (?). The most likeable character of the bunch was Denise the under acted slut and I'm sure that she was meant to be the little bitch that the audience hates! I couldn't help but find myself rooting for her instead of the plain Jane that was meant to grab the viewer's vote of sympathy. When the gang enter a bar early on in the movie, they meet a prostitute called Sophia (Jamie Hartzog), who in a few lines proves to be far more attractive and talented than any of the other lame ‘actors' that plague the screen throughout. Why couldn't she have played a bigger part?

Thankfully it doesn't suffer from a lack of lighting like so many of its counterparts and the director manages a fair few decent shots. Admittedly the ending was quite unexpected, owing a sly nod perhaps to The Texas chainsaw Massacre without over using the influence. Finding strange dolls around the house started as a fairly macabre touch, but the idea gets tired very quickly, which sadly the crew failed to notice. It was a brave attempt by the director to try and extract fear without using many murders or too much gore. However an extreme lack of momentum and no apparent filling leaves Grim Weekend ultimately looking like a hollow and empty shell. The director opens the usual bag of slasher platitudes including a silly point of view shot through a clown mask; nevertheless his inexperience is far too glaring to gain any merit out of them and he doesn't even try to add anything new to the formula. I bought this on the same day that I got the 25th anniversary Halloween DVD. Watching the special features, I noticed that John Carpenter took Halloween to someone from 20th Centaury Fox without it's excellent score and surprisingly they said that ‘it just wasn't scary'. The amusing thing was, what the hell did the producers think was frightening about this rubbish? It makes you wonder about a few films, doesn't it! There really is very little to recommend about this lazy and flat lined effort. It's tedious, poorly constructed and incredibly unatmospheric. Next time I get something like this, I think I'll keep my expectations a little lower.

God knows I've seen some awful horror films in my time but this really is the worst of the worst! I can't even begin to describe how awful it is, but I'll try. First off, the acting is dreadful. Not the worst in the world, but still dreadful. One of the strangest things is that one of the guys in this film actually looks like Ash from The Evil Dead. Perhaps this was deliberate, I don't know. About half an hour into the film and there's still no blood or gore, just loads of stupid dolls found in beds and trees. Seeing the characters arguing and whining was starting to annoy me, so I decided I'd had enough and switched the DVD off. This was obviously a no-budget film, but that's no excuse for how awful it is. It reminded me slightly of another no-budget clown film called Camp Blood, which despite it's flaws is actually entertaining.

No one should have to sit through this pile of crap, so unless you want to torture yourself or your friends, don't bother.

I believe that every once in a while humanity creates something that is so awful that it has no right to be around our own excrement. That, I believe, is this movie "S.I.C.K." I was told that this was the worst movie in the world, I had been told this for several years before actually sitting down and watching it. How horrible of an understatement this was. Lets just say that when I watched this, I wore safety goggles. Why did I wear these safety goggles? So I could prevent myself from scratching out my eyes.

That is how horrid of a film this is. Its so bad, its so horrible, that it is actually laughable and nauseating at the same time. I congratulate all of those involved in the making of this film in creating something that humanity can look at and say "Wow, at least I didn't make that." IF at all possible, do not watch this film. If you do, make sure that you are with a group; this is so you don't try to kill/mutilate yourself if you watch it alone.

Again, I stand by my statement-- if they gave Oscars for Crap, "S.I.C.K." could not even win that. Again, sorry for bashing this film so horribly-- wait, nope, not sorry at all.

I bought this from Blockbuster for 99p. The guy behind the counter said the reason it was so cheap was because the disc was scratched to sh*t, but failed to mention that the reason it was so cheap was because the film was a p*ss poor effort that sucked harder than Paris Hilton in a hotel room home video. Talking of home videos, since when has it been fair game to release them as films - I mean to say, films used to employ actors and technicians and scriptwriters and so on - not any more - just gather your friends and lame-o ideas together for the weekend, lavish the production with an £8.00 budget, and get someone to fall down the stairs with a Casio keyboard (the soundtrack) - then slap it on the shelves, for some poor sap (me), to take home in lonely desperation. But here's the clincher - I fast forwarded through most of this, and tossed it to one side, ready for the hammers... until the next night, while watching a Darren Day horror 'Hellbreed' (£1.99 to take home and keep from a different Blockbuster). Now this film made 'Grim Weekend' look like The Exorcist, so I slapped Grim Weekend back on, to catch up on some of the moments listed on the wonderful IMDb boards, that viewers claimed were hilarious. Sure enough, once I had got over the misery, the pain, and the horror, of realising Grim Weekend was utter chod on toast, I could enjoy, savour, and downright get down to the funny stuff. And there's a lot of it. Check the boards. Then check the flick. Hell, it might even be worth it. AWWWWW CRAP!

This film is the worst excuse for a motion picture I have EVER seen. To begin, I'd like to say the the front cover of this film is by all means misleading, if you think you are about to see a truly scary horror film with a monster clown, you are soooo wrong. In fact the killers face doesn't even slightly resemble the front cover, it's just an image they must have found on Google and thought it looked cool. Speaking of things they found and thought it looked cool, there is a scene in this film where some of the gang are searching for the friend in the old woods, then suddenly the screen chops to a scene where there is a mother deer nurturing it's young in a glisten of sunlight... I mean seriously WTF??? How is this relevant to the dark woods they are wandering through? I bought this film from a man at a market hoping it would be entertaining, if it wasn't horror then at least it would be funny right? WRONG! The next day I GAVE it to my work colleague ridding myself from the plague named S.I.C.K

Bottom line is: Don't SEE THIS FILM!!!

I have seen a lot of stupid movies in my life, a lot, but this is without a doubt the worst one ever! I usually like dumb movies, if they are somewhat entertaining, but I can't even think of one good thing about this movie. I like "Teen Witch" for Heaven's sake. But S.I.C.K. has horrible acting, lame porn music throughout the whole thing, and even the sex scenes sucked! I would have to compare the lameness of this movie to the likes of "Twin Dragons", "Puppet Master vs the Demonic Toys" or even "a Very Brady Sequel". Although, this is by far worse then any of those. I beg you, don't even waste your time. Believe me, its 2 hours you'll never get back.

I am writing this review having watched it several months ago....the trailer looked promising enough for me to buy this lame excuse for a movie. It is a complete joke....and literally a spit in the face of real classics of the early generation of horror like Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) which they even had the gall to compare itself to on the back of the cover art. The producer who played Brandon should go flip burgers and serve up greasy hamburgers....hell he might not even be good at that either! The lighting was bad bad bad and a big annoyance through out the film you couldn't even see the actor's faces sometimes. I don't even remember the rest of the cast members which is sad really, bad they never do anything to impress you to make them memorable. That's all the time I will waste on this review PLEASE stay as far away as you can from this pile of junk even if you get it for 25 cents don't do it buy s piece of gum at least IT would keep you entertained!

If you want good quality low budget fun, far better than this... then check out a Jeff Hayes film....because it takes talent to make it in horror and the kid has it!

I gave this 1 star just for the cover art....thats the only thing worth liking abut this so called "film"

-Rick Blalock

Worst movie on earth. I don't even know where to begin but I hope I can save another person from punishing themselves with this movie. When it comes to acting and lighting, this movie is similar to a bad porno without the sex. The actors are some of the worst I've ever seen, and couldn't have been worse even if they were trying to make a complete mockery of this movie. The movie must have had a record breaking low budget which I'm sure was wasted almost solely on the movie's cover. This movie has now become a running joke with friends of mine and has become the standard for comparing other garbage movies. I would like to point of that no other movie even begins to compare. I feel personally responsible for suggesting a friend and me watch this movie and am surprised she still considers me a friend after the torment I put us through. Don't see this movie!

This movie was unbearably horrible. I really can't explain just how bad this movie really is. No one I know likes this movie, and I think nobody in the world does. It starts out being very boring with stale acting. I can't believe I actually sat through it after seeing how low budget and poor quality it was, but I thought it would pick up or at least be scary. But it didn't get any better. It barely showed one person get killed in the movie. None of the movie was scary it all or suspenseful in the least bit, it just makes you angry to watch it. I will never know how an obese clown who is walking could catch up with a man who's running. I was very mad throughout the whole movie, but at least 70% of the time I was watching it, I wanted to pull the tape out of the VCR and smash it all over the place.

I couldn't even begin to describe how much this movie upset me or how bad it was. I wouldn't recommend watching it unless you really want to waste time and get angry. NONE of it is scary, not at all!

I rented this movie roughly 4-5 years ago and was instantly disappointed.

I wanted to see a b-movie slasher flick, but ended up with a fecal matter for my eyes. The acting was similar to watching grass dry. I've seen better acting in a softcore film...

The idea that a crazy killer comes out of nowhere baffled me. How was this a horror movie?

this movie's production value, was laughable at best. There were no scares. It seemed like a high school student got a new video camera for Christmas. The plot was all over the place, if existent. If you are bored looking for a bad horror movie to rent, skip this one. There are much better b-movies out there.