The 2000's was a decade where the Horror genre finally dusted itself off and decided to finally redeem itself. Some films went on to become legendary. Some, not so much. Surprisingly, this one really flew under the radar when it came out. Around the time movies like Haute Tension were getting so much notoriety, poor li'l Sick Girl went very much unnoticed, and as far as I know, has yet to find its audience. Today, we're gonna talk about how great this film is, and why it deserves more attention. As far as I'm concerned, this low-budget film is one of the bright spots of the 2000's. A tragic story with some very dark humor, and really no moral to speak of. Just a bunch of torture and senseless, gory killings by a very disturbed young lady.
Izzy likes to kill. Not only that, but she's also kind of a badass, well schooled in self defense, which comes in handy when obtaining her prey. Izzy is a frustrated chick. She has to take care of her prissy little brother because the parents, whom we never learn much about, are dead. Izzy also misses her older brother, who is away, fighting in Iraq. Izzy has a massive hardon for big brother, so, she REALLY misses him. The only help Izzy and little brother get is from an old friend of their parent's, Barney, some fat biker guy, played by one hell of a bad actor. Any scenes involving fat biker guy are awkward. Little brother gets bullied at school. Izzy jumps at the chance to defend him, and takes it much farther than one would expect. She kidnaps all three of the tormentors, sits them down and gives them a little therapy session to try and find out why they're such assholes, and then decides to intimidate them into killing each other, until one is left, whom she takes back to the barn where she's keeping a couple others she's kidnapped for play time. She does a pretty good job of hiding play time from little brother and Barney. Play time includes such games as Izzy cutting some guy's dick off, and ass raping some chick with it. Meanwhile, The little kid gets his arm broke and then turned into a Bonzai tree. Looking back, the little asshole got off light.
Izzy seems like a fairly decent person, at times. And at one point, she may have been. But something went wrong at some point, and she just snapped. Could it be the pressures of having no parents and being mother to her brother? Or does she miss her other brother so much that her only way of coping with this is to inflict suffering and destroy life? Maybe all of that plus the fact that her only friend is a boring chunk of shit whom she inherited from the parents. Izzy is bored, lonely and frustrated. She loves her little brother and would do anything to protect him. So, some decency does remain but her little hobby does shine through, at times, as she gives advice on how to fight dirty and giving deadly weapons as gifts. Even though she may mean well, it becomes obvious that she is becoming a destructive influence. But there is just no way around that.For anyone into senseless cruelty and unflinching scenes of torture, Sick Girl should quench your sweet tooth. this truly is a film male and female Horror fans alike could agree on. The character of Izzy is sort of like a funny version of Juno who is more like Dexter. Izzy is as sadistic as they come, yet, has nothing but loyalty and good intentions when it comes to family. A quality which manages to not soften this somewhat likeable character in the least. A character that very much deserves to be seen again in a sequel. I hope Sick Girl someday gains the following she deserves. Then, maybe she'll come out of hiding and wreak more havoc on the world. 6/10
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