“Sick”: Their alone pandemic quarantine was not as secluded as they thought

The Covid-19 pandemic seems to be something from the past and we have forgotten how strange those times were. A so-called deadly virus, everybody going insane waiting for their vaccines, the reclusion, the lockdowns… Merely a year ago and it is still hard to believe all that happened. But, as for real life, some movies took that new chaotic everyday normality as a source for telling stories. And Sick (2022) is one of them.

This horror thriller is set in the middle of the pandemic, where Parker and her best friend decide to quarantine at the family lake house alone – or so they think.

John Hyams, the awards-winner director who has been behind titles like Universal Soldier: Regeneration (2009), Dragon Eyes (2012), Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning (2012), and Alone (2020), and already working with Nicolas Winding Refn in the Maniac Cop reboot, is the director of Sick (2022). Kevin Williamson, the writer of the original Scream (1996) and some other titles of the saga, as well as other horror slashers like I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997), The Faculty (1998), and Cursed (2005), has been the author of the screenplay together with Katelyn Crabb, another Scream alumni.

The man cast in Sick (2022) is formed by Marc Menchaca, Jane Adams, Gideon Adlon, Dylan Sprayberry, Bethlehem Million, and Charla Bocchicchio.

Produced by Miramax and Outerbanks Entertainment, the writer Kevin Williamson’s banner, the movie had its premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival and was also part of the lineup of Oldenburg International Film Festival, Fantastic Fest, Chicago International Film Festival, and Philadelphia International Film Festival. The Peacock streaming service has the distribution rights and has scheduled the movie for a release on January 13, 2023.

Sick (2022) is Rated R for strong violence, terror, language throughout, and some drug use. Watch its official trailer here.