| View Larger Image | Sick Girl (Special Edition DVD) | DVDStarring: Leslie Andrews, Stephen Geoffreys, John McGarr, Charlie Trepany, Chris W. King
Directed By: Eben McGarr
| List Price: | $19.95 | | Price: | $17.49 | | You Save: | $2.46 (12%) | | | Available: | Usually ships in 24 hours |
| | Binding: | DVD | | Rating: |  | | Run Time: | 79 minutes | | Format: | Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen | | Studio: | Synapse Films | | Number of Discs: | 1 | | Aspect Ratio: | 1.78:1 | | Release Date: | August 25, 2009 | | Sales Rank: | 12,565th |
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Product Description
There s nothing wrong with hurting things smaller than you, provided you also take on things bigger than you . . . Young Izzy (Leslie Andrews) is a girl with issues. Her parents may be dead. Her older brother is fighting in Iraq and she s raising her younger brother, Kevin, all by herself. Things are tough but, with the help of her motorcycle-riding friend Barney, she deals with her situation the best she can. Unfortunately, Izzy isn t exactly stable... and her way of dealing with life s problems includes finding people to torture and kill in the barn near the family home! When a trio of bullies picks on her brother Kevin at school, all hell breaks loose. The two that die are the lucky ones... This sick and twisted independent film from director Eben McGarr is filled with black humor, excellent performances and shocking scenes of extreme gore. SICK GIRL is low budget cinema at it s best (IMDB.COM) and will have horror fans laughing and screaming with delight! Also watch for Stephen (FRIGHT NIGHT) Geoffreys, returning to the horror genre after a 19 year absence. SPECIAL FEATURES INCLUDE: Anamorphic (1.78:1) Widescreen Transfer - English Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo - 'DEATH BY...' DVD Featurette - Original Promotional Teaser and Trailer - Sick Girl Public Service Announcement - Bloopers and Outtakes Reel - Stephen Geoffreys Interview Segment - Chapter Selections |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 3.0 based on 13 reviews)
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Eh... blah... by Osmun315 (IL)  2 Stars
November 30, 2009
There really is nothing new in this film. The only thing that separates this DVD from others is the lack of budget. This is uninspired and has the feel of a film shot as quickly and cheaply as possible. I doubt if there multiple takes of any of the scenes. I felt like everything in this movie I had seen before.
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Really Sick Girl!!! by April Franzini (Philadelphia, PA USA)  4 Stars
November 22, 2009
I thought that I was totally desensitized by watching violent, horror movies my whole life but this one made me cover my eyes a few times. Warning!! This movie is not for everyone. I was not expecting much when I rented this on Netflix, but I was pleasantly or unpleasantly surprized. This movie was not made on a big budget, hence the reason I wanted to watch it in the first place. The acting is really good and sometimes believing (some actors in this flick are just horrible). Overall, I really enjoyed this movie enough to purchase my own copy. This review is directed only toward the hardcore horror fans!!!
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An E for effort. by Paul Aragon 2 Stars
November 11, 2009
There is a new subtype of film that has emerged within the last half decade or so that exists almost solely within the horror movie genre. These films are based around one, or both of the the two main stays of the exploitation diet, sex and violence. Some examples of this new subtype include Gutterballs, The Hood Has Eyes, Defenceless, Baise Moi, and Blood and Sex Nightmare. Possibly an off shoot of the slightly less recent Torture Porn horror subgenre, this new subtype takes things one step further, and dares to do that which the big studios are afraid to do. Though I do respect the overall gist of their approach, and have absolutely no problem with extreme offensive underground cinema that dares to flip the bird at the Hollywood system, and doesn't mind going straight to DVD, the problem is that the majority of these films are technically not any good. They all suffer in one way or another from bad lighting, inconsistant audio, poor visual quality, horrible acting, shabby directing, and terrible scripts. Sure, most of them contain all the sex and adult oriented debauchery that anyone could ever want within an exploitative sleaze fest, yet, usually there is zero subtlety and nuance to make all this depravity anyway seductive or emotionally compelling. One can argue that subtlety should not be sought after in such low brow mindless entertainment, but I feel that without a decent understanding or use of these subtext, that any film, no matter what the subject matter may be, ultimately becomes boring. All the naked bodies and splatter by themselves does not make up for a film that doesn't know how to use them properly.
Silence is Golden.
What seperates Sick Girl from its contemporaries is that it actually tries to have real characters and deeper meaning by attempting some sibilance of a drama. This means one of two things. First and foremost, the level of gratuitous sex, and scantly clad women, is greatly reduced when compaired to other films in its subgenre. The only sexual scene that does take place is near the end of the picture, and is only there for shock value purposes. It involves Sick Girl cutting the genitals off of one of her captured male victims and making a strap on out of it by attatching it to what appears to be a railroad spike stuck through a piece of wood. She then proceeds to rape one of her tied up captured female victims with this crude home made device. More quirky then horrific in its exicution, the graphic scene is set up like a kind of clumsy music video with a shrilly recorded annoying buble gum pop song as its main soundtrack. Outside of this, most of the film consists of dialogue, lots and lots of dialogue, and sadly, most of it is painfully embarrassing to sit through. The plot, if you want to call it such, is really just a facade to bolster and explain Sick Girls super tough image and awesome killing abilities, while at the same time working as a superficial excuse for further scenes of graphic blood shed. Sick Girl is really just another film about one of those walking human death machines, you know the type that are mostly nomadic in their romantically self induced isolation? Sick Girl is a kind of modern Spaghetti Western- Shaw Brothers action hero, who is so otherworldly skilled and tough, that she might as well be of supernatural origin. This is by no means an original premise for a film, and it has been one that has worked to great effect many times in the past. The problem here is that everyone involved in this film is too amateurish to pull off this idea effectively. There are many one sided conversations throughout Sick Girl, in which she explains her views to one of her many subdued and gagged victims, but these moments go over like a ton of bricks. That is because they where designed to be powerfully moving important speeches, but are instead delivered with inept wooden acting, and self consciously stilted dialogue. It is almost as if writer and director Eban McGarr didn't receive his own memo explaining what kind of movie Sick Girl was suppose to be. If all these attempts proved one thing, it is that this really is a film made by laymen.
Death on Two Legs.
If there is a saving grace to this film, it was likely accidental rather then conceptual. Usually a film like Sick Girl would use that old time tested revenge outline, in which the victim of a horrible crime rights the injustices done to them by going on a killing spree. What makes Sick Girl so different, is that she is not a victim of anything more then mere annoyances. The people she tortures and kills, are not really harming anyone in any serious way, they are just being jerks. It is here that Sick Girl managed to inadvertantly tap into something that could of really made for an outstanding cinema experience. Lets face it, people can really be lame. We have all had those moments in which we where so perturbed, that we secretly wish that the object of or anger would spontaneously combust or get struck by a falling safe or lightning bolt. Each of us also share that same retained mixture of rage and regret from the many bad experiences in our pasts with either bullies or authority figures. Though I don't think that Eban McGarr really hit on the potential of this idea, or even really realized what he was getting into, Sick Girl almost works as a sort of guilty pleasure in which the people that most upset us in our daily lives, get dealt the ultimate karmic justice. Despite all the hope I had when I bought this film, or how badly I wanted to like it, I just couldn't muster anything within myself to make up for Sick Girls many tedious pit falls. The worst of which being a script full of incredably horrible dialogue. It was a nice try, I give him that, but the best I can do is give all those involved in this project an E for effort, not my recommendations.
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SICK GIRL GET SICKER by Richard E. Hlina (Arnold, Mo) 4 Stars
November 03, 2009
YOU'VE ALL READ BASICALLY WHAT THIS MOVIE IS ABOUT SO YOU DON'T NEED ME TO TELL YOU.FIRST TO THOSE WHO TOLD THE PLOT SHAME ON YOU SINCE THIS IS ONE OF THE BETTER 'B' MOVIES OUT THERE. YOU NEED TO WATCH THIS MOVE NO FAST FOWARD CHEATING IT IS A GREAT CHARACTER STUDY IN INSANITY. ABOUT HALFWAY THROUGH THE MOVIE YOU SEE AND FEEL IZZY'S CRAZINESS AND SHE IS SCARRY. NOT SOMEONE YOU WANT NEXT DOOR TO YOU. ALTHO SHE DELIVERS HER LINS IN A KIND OF MONOTONE FASHION (EXCEPT WHEN SHE IS ANGERED)SHE DOES A CONVINCING JOB OF I DON'T WANT HER NEAR ME TYPE ROLE. SICK GIRL IS THE PERFECT NAME FOR THIS FLICK AND I AM GLAD I OWN IT SO I CAN WATCH IT OVER AGAIN AND SHARE IT WITH OTHERS WHO ENJOY THIS KIND OF MOVIE. IF YOU LIKE GORE THIS MOVE WILL SATISFY THAT NEED AFTER ALL US PEOPLE WHO WATCH THIS KIND OVER MOVIE (SLASHER)ALWAYS WANT GOOD BELIEVABLE GORE. GUYS YOU MAY GET A LITTLE UNCOMFORTABLE WATCHING THE END BUT IT MAKES THE MOVIE PERFECT.
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More Torture porn by Donald A. Prentiss (minneapolis, mn United States) 2 Stars
October 31, 2009
The lead actress of this film does a fantastic job portraying the damaged young lead, but the movie really couldn't hold me because it is just this shallow shell of a film that just seems like an excuse to make a mixed salad of scenes of violence and says to hell with a worth a damn story line. If you like films like Hostel, then you'd dig this - but if you are looking for something smart and something that'll grab your attention and give you a gore-filled ride with brains to match, then this can be skipped, cause this ain't that film.
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