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Sick Girl
USA 2007
produced by James Keitel, Eben McGarr, John McGarr (executive)
directed by Eben McGarr
starring Leslie Andrews, John McGarr, Charlie Trepany, Ian Villalobos, Katherine Macanufo, Graham Denman, Stepen Geoffreys, Chris W. King, Sean Slattery, Justin Marco, Peter Pertida jr, Caerley Hill, Andy Signore, Teresa Marco, Jaimie Beebe, Shari Gulley, Lisa Goldman, Jennie Carlino, Aleece Jones, Aimee Mossa, Joana Prata, Matt Sigloch, Erik Fig
written by Eben McGarr, music by John Francis Conway, special effects by Monster FX
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Somewhere in the middle of nowhere, USA: Izzy (Leslie Andrews) is the
perfect sister to little Kevin (Charlie Trepany), whom she brings up on
her own after the death of her parents and her brother's (Chris W.King)
departure to serve with the Marines. And with an acquaintance, biker
Barney (John McGarr) serving as a father figure, they almost seem like a
regular family ... thing is, they aren't, because in her pastime, Izzy
goes around slaughtering people, and torturing and killing those who bully
her little brother. Plus, she had incestuous feelings for her brother, has
killed his girlfriend (Caerley Hill), and has neglected to tell anyone
that her brother fell in service years ago. Eventually, her secret
killings come to the open when Barney catches her raping a girl Izzy has
kidnapped using the severed penis of her boyfriend as a strap-on. Before
she even knows what she's doing, Izzy has felled Barney with an ax, right
in front of the eyes of her little brother Kevin, who then kills himself
to not eventually become like his sister ... There are some
good, provocative, gruesome and outrageous ideas and sequences in this
film, this can't be denied, and this is what makes Sick Girl
likeable - but as a whole, the movie is definitely less than perfect,
mostly because it lacks narrative coherence. So while the film's best
scenes are really good by themselves, they never really click to become a
stringent story, sometimes make little sense, seem to be edited together
in coincidental order and often seem to be in the way of one another ...
but at least the scenes are good by themselves of course, and most of the
film's acting is pretty good, so it's by no means a total loss, just an
average genre flick that never manages to keep its promise.
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