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Sick (2022)
If I could go negative...
This review is being done in 2023, so I can boldly say that this movie is the absolute worst. To be fair, this aired soley on Peacock & they support Casey Anthony. We open up on Tyler being stalked in a grocery store & later killed, presumably by his carelessness of the virus. The next day, we actually meet Parker & her friend, Miri, who are going to quarantine at Parker's family lakehouse. Parker takes a selfish & posts that she's headed to the lake. After being there for a day, Parker ends up blocking a random number that gives off the same stalker vibes as the texts that Tyler got. She plays it off, because after all, she did post it on social media. That night, a "non exclusive" guy friend, DJ, shows up, uninvited, to talk with Parker because he has feelings & she doesn't. He tells her that he'll leave in the morning. An eerie guy then begins reigning terror on the 3 in the cabin, killing DJ. After running around & a severely injured Miri, Parker bashes the killer's head with a thick vase. Polt twist, there's another killer. Miri plays dead while Parker takes this killer on the run. She finally sees a car & after an unnecessary exchange with this... Karen named Pamela, what do ya know? Another plot twist, Pamela is the mastermind. Pamela, her husband Jason (there's even a Friday the 13th joke made) & their other son, who came back to try to kill Miri, but thankfully, she got him for good, have an agenda for Parker. Jason shows them a video (one showed by DJ earlier) of Parker & their other son, Benji, making out at a party. What you need to know now is this: Tyler (from the first kill), who is asymptomatic, kisses Parker one day. Parker then kisses shy Benji at a "pandemic party." Benji does 3 days later from covid. Parker is asymptomatic just like Tyler was, after Pamela forces her to take a covid test. So, they want vengeance over theor son making a choice to go to a party knowing the full risks at stake. Thankfully, all die but Parker & Miri, who honestly, are a nightmare by themselves.
Secret Headquarters (2022)
Boring is an understatement
Walker is the only reason why I watched this movie & honestly, he would've been better off standing alone in this.
Also, a 14 year old girl interested in a 16/17 year old guy? That's very problematic.
This movie tried way too hard & could've been much better without adding in the extra kids.
American Horror Stories: Aura (2022)
An agenda that's missing some key notes.
It's no surprise that with what's going on in the States that this anthology series would do a take on pro-life/pro-choice, but at some point, you start wandering out into left field.
After Bryce's, then, fiance tells him that she's pregnant, he proceeds to tell her that it can't happen (which leads to the assumption of a forced abortion upon her). They're in a heated argument, outside of their car, about how she's happy about being pregnant & that he wants her to not be. He grabs her, mid argument, & when she breaks free from him, making it clear that she will leave & have the baby, a car hits her, head on, & drives off. She's laying on the ground, heavily injured, gasping for breath, & Bryce (played by Max Greenfield) uses this as an opportunity to kill her, thus ending the pregnancy, while it looks like it was from the car accident. Horrible is an understatement. Now, this is where they lost me. When the woman shows up to the house to make him pay for killing her, she is also somehow holding her dead, hypothetical child, attempting to make him feel guilty for not getting her emergency care which led to her not being able to have the *choice* of having the baby that she wanted. By killing her, he took away her choice. All of that is understandable, but a dead baby that never existed (as in, was never born or even confirmed by a doctor) & was likely already taken out by the car plowing into her? Yeah, that makes total sense. Mind you, the hit & run guy is serving time in prison, but at least he's safe there, even though there is also no certainty that she would've lived even if she had been taken to the hospital.
But I guess that's what happens when you only have about an hour to dish out a story. Bryce didn't deserve to live because he was/is a monster, but the dead baby that was never born being used as a guilt trip just screams that some people shouldn't direct/produce/write what they don't understand.
The concept is cool, but the woman that he killed was horrible enough without the use of a dead baby that never existed.