Sick Boy

Sick Boy has a low rating, yes, so I went into it thinking it will be awful. However, in the end it wasn't too bad but I wouldn't watch it again (once you've seen it, you've seen it - nothing to "go through" or re- evaluate). The acting of the lead is sub-par and really annoying at times especially near the end, the movie starts verrry slowly and her boyfriend is a bit of an idiot...but if you can look past that, the story itself (although it's been done before and you'll see why) is solid and suspenseful. I particularly liked the look of the sick boy, skin color, eyes, as you see in the trailer. There are moments you will be thinking "WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU?" when it comes to the lead actor's decisions, but in the end it wasn't too bad. Obviously very low-budget but budget doesn't always mean BAD film.

As a matter of fact, I don't even know where to start... Everything is chaotic, nothing seems to be logical, which is the "less" problem. The acting is so individually terrible, I thought first, it must be a joke or just my eyes played some sort of tricky games, but no! And they call themselves "actors". No one in this film played decent or at least somewhere like average. My brain was irreparably damaged after this and I only suggest "Sick boy" to those people, who are enough crazy and agile. There was a moment in some of the conversations, when I tried to find out, which "actor" was worse and there was my laugh breaking the dumb silence... maybe it was a side effect, I don't really care.

First off, the only thing about this film that didn't stick out negatively is the cinematography. That said it's all about this ditsy girl who takes a babysitting job as a favor for her friend, it was high paying so she took it. She is told the kid is sick & never to go downstairs for any reason, of course the dumb girl doesn't listen & seventy minutes later it culminates to a lousy unsatisfactory ending.

The lead actress in this should win an award, an award for annoying pathetically poor acting. I stuck around for the entire run time but only because I wanted to see her die horribly. The plot could have been printed on a fortune cookie. Don't pay for this! It has nothing good to offer. It's just another 3/10 film that will leave you saying oh man I should have known better. Well at least that was my feeling.

Ok, you got a "sick boy" locked in a downstairs bedroom but we don't know what is wrong with him. Well there' nothing wrong with that basic premise for a horror movie. The problem with this is the actions of the babysitter and later on both her and the boyfriend, What they did simply isn't believable which is a shame because they could have made this work. Some of the scenes once sick boy is let loose are a bit of fun so it's not as dead a loss as some make out.

Almost seemed like a 28 Days Later "this is how it got loose" prequel. It's low budget for sure, but it's not near as bad as some of these trolls make it. It certainly scared me in places and I've seen a WHOLE lot worse films. This was actually gross and tense fun for me. Glad I hunted it down after being told I might like it. They did a good job making the kid pretty scary. I'd love to see a big budget version of this.