Are you over the COVID pandemic, or are you over COVID pandemic horror films? Probably both. This makes “Sick” a hard sell: A horror movie born in the pandemic era, set in April 2020, when all but a handful of holdout states in the U.S.
had issued stay-at-home orders and buying hand sanitizer from distilleries was easier than from the local CVS. This is not a moment anybody wants to revisit in 2022, or possibly ever, but writer Kevin Williamson and director John Hyams ask us to do exactly that in their mean, economically made COVID slasher, two words that read as incongruous side by side but pair far better than viewers weary of contemporary outbreak horror could anticipate.
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