Best movie of this year hands down!

Sadly Over-hyped

Good story, Not enough for a whole film

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

This is surely one of the oddest, yet most entertaining, entries in the "Masters Of Horror" series – despite a rather lame title. It's very much a black comedy with unexpected lesbian overtones: the latter, however, comes as no surprise when realizing that one of the two leads – appearing under her real name of Erin Brown – is really softcore exponent Misty Mundae (the character is actually called Misty)! The other actress, then, is Angela Bettis who had starred in director McKee's cultish low-budget horror MAY (2002); incidentally, this episode was reportedly intended for Roger Corman but I wonder what he would have made of the inherent sensuality (though it is not particularly explicit by contemporary standards). Anyway, entomologist Bettis is prodded by her leering male colleague to approach the teenage artist who likes to hang out at their workplace; when the two girls finally meet, it transpires that Brown had been infatuated with Bettis for a long time – but the latter keeps her obsession with insects hidden from the former…until Brown reveals to Bettis that she is the daughter of a renowned former teacher of hers, who has actually just sent the scientist a most unusual specimen. The comedy element involves Bettis' troubled relationship with the elderly and conservative landlady (whose grand-daughter actually idolizes the young woman!) – which grows even worse with the arrival of the uninhibited and confrontational Brown. The horror themes come into play only gradually: Brown – pricked by the very insect Dad mailed to Bettis, as it turns out, to harm her so as to 'cure' his own daughter's 'unnatural' instincts – finds herself pregnant and eventually turns into a full-scale creepy-crawly!; the 'happy' ending, then, is quite amusing. As I said, the film proves a likeably oddball entry in the series which works mainly due to Mundae's beguiling doe-eyed features, supplying just the right mix of genuine charm and giddy naughtiness.

This episode of the "Masters of Horror" series tries very hard to be both amusing and horrifying but doesn't quite manage to be either.The "humor" is very heavy-handed and Angela Bettis's character "Ida Teeter" is a caricature, not a human being. The plot line is promising (a strange, huge bug running loose that can devour mammals and impregnate (!) them) but ultimately goes nowhere. Bettis's co-star Erin Brown (aka Misty Mundae. a soft porn/horror scream queen) tries to make the most of her role as the ditsy, pixie-obsessed "Misty Falls", but leaves no major impression.The whole relationship between the two women seems unbelievably far-fetched. Ida is not particularly attractive, looks much older than Misty, and is very weird and socially-unskilled, and yet Misty has been fixated on her, as it turns out, for YEARS! Misty seems pretty strange herself, but even so her obsession with Ida seems ludicrous. And why does the perfectly normal-seeming Max give the insufferable Ida the time of day, much less be her best friend? The land lady character seems to exist only to be "the bad person who deserved to get killed" role you see in countless unimaginative horror films. And Max is the second "friend of the protagonist" character to get killed that I've seen in the Master of Horror series. Is this some kind of formula that stories in this series must adhere to? I've seen two segments so far and both of them featured the nice friend of the protagonist getting destroyed by a monster. In "Sick Girl", the death of Max was gratuitous and served no purpose at all, except to provide some gore.The ending were terrible, incredibly stupid even for a horror movie. Misty becomes this CREATURE, a "bug" of some kind, and the bug's mandibles (or whatever they have) have torn through her flesh (earlier Misty's ear became a bloody mush and fell off). She's no longer human. But at the end, she's perfectly normal and healthy looking and happily pregnant with the bug's offspring (as is Ida). HOW is it possible to go from having her flesh ripped apart from the inside to being whole again? Like I said, it's stupid even for a horror movie.I'm going to watch two other segments of this series tonight. God, I hope they're better than this!

It has it all, great characters, (Angela Bettis putting in an even better performance than in "May"), great sets, quirky lesbians, originality, and insects! Most of all, the cutest little green leaf bug ever! The sight of him waving his little arms around as if in greeting, whilst perched on a finger, is the highlight of the insect scenes, easily making him the star of the show! How could anyone not go aaahh, he's so cute! - I just hope they treated him right! Anyhow, there was no point throughout the whole hour where I became bored or restless watching "Sick Girl", and that is very rare for me.Full marks to the makers, for originality, interest, quirkiness, fascinating insect-filled apartment where the entomologist lady (Bettis)lived, (I would love an apartment like that one!) good horror moments for fans of the genre, humour without being annoying, as it often is in horror movies, but most of all, the star of the show, that adorable little green leaf bug. Aaahhh! He should have had a name and been given his own inclusion in the credits. So sweet!

"Sick Girl" was the second episode of "Masters Of Horror" that I saw (after the average "Pick Me Up") and, after watching it, I'm not sure I'm going to bother with the other episodes if they're that bad. Honestly, this was pretty lame.Let's put things straight: "Sick Girl" is not a horror movie (it isn't the slightest bit frightening). It's just a Z-grade erotic movie argument stretched over an hour. The writer and director just came up with a really poor excuse to film two girls making out in just about every scene. What's the point of shooting this as part of a series called "Masters Of Horror"? I mean, the director should have been honest and made an erotic or porn film, period. Or made a movie dealing with the relationship between these two girls (this could have been much more interesting). No need to cover it up with that stupid "evil bug" nonsense. It's almost insulting.It's a shame for Bettis, who appears like an interesting actress and does an okay job. But really, she's been exploited here. The other girl, Erin Brown (who, I just discovered, is apparently a star of low-budget erotic films under the moniker Misty Mundae) is not bad either. But again, except for watching these two make out extendedly (if that's what you're looking for), there is no reason why anyone would want to inflict this drivel on themselves.