It’s how Hyams’ direction knows exactly how to cater to viewers. It’s not just the excellent pacing, brutality, and no-nonsense structure that makes Sick so fun. Once the killer strikes, Sick turns into a relentless fight for survival, both from the unknown attacker and the virus. In April 2020, college students Parker (Gideon Adlon) and Miri (Beth Million) run off to one of their parents’ empty lake house to quarantine, only to find their first night interrupted by a masked assailant trying to kill them. In Sick, Hyams teams with Scream screenwriter Kevin Williamson (co-writing with Katelyn Crabb) to pull off a slasher film with little-to-no bullshit. He’s proven himself an excellent craftsman, and whether it’s action or horror he knows the exact right way to give whatever material he works with a visceral edge that makes every moment hit as hard as it possibly can.
That film has finally arrived with John Hyams’ Sick.įans of genre films probably know Hyams through his revival of the Universal Soldier franchise, TV shows like Z Nation and Black Summer, or his underrated 2020 thriller Alone. But it was only a matter of time before someone would make the first good entry about the pandemic, one that would find the perfect blend of executing genre thrills while seizing upon the moment to portray some of the insanity we’ve all dealt with for the past two years. It also wasn’t too much of a shock when cheap horror movies seizing on lockdowns and fears over a deadly virus started to pop up on VOD services.
It didn’t come as much of a surprise when, mere months after COVID-19 locked most of the world down, we had one conceived and shot entirely over Zoom. Horror movies, like documentaries, have a knack for rolling the cameras whenever tragedy strikes.
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