"Masters of Horror" Sick Girl (2006)

User Rating:

6.5/10   

Director:

Lucky McKee

Writers:

Mick Garris (creator)
Sean Hood (teleplay) ...

TV Series:

"Masters of Horror" (2005)

Original Air Date:

13 January 2006 (Season 1, Episode 10)

Genre:

Horror

Plot:

A story about an evil bug with the ability to change people's behavior, a commentary on the dangers of moving into a relationship too quickly.

Plot Keywords:

Insect | Flashback | Kitchen | Female Bonding | Cocaine

Cast

Angela Bettis	...	Ida Teeter
Misty Mundae	...	Misty Falls (as Erin Brown)
Jesse Hlubik	...	Max
Marcia Bennett	...	Lana Beasley
Mike McKee	...	Professor Malcolm Wolf
Chandra Berg	...	Betty, the Ladybug

Runtime:

60 min

Country:

USA | Canada

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

USA:TV-MA | Germany:16 | Argentina:18 | Norway:15 (DVD rating)

Filming Locations:

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Company:

British Columbia Production Tax Credit

Trivia:

Roger Corman was going to direct Sick Girl but was replaced by Lucky McKee.

Quotes:

Max: Babes or bugs. You can't have both.

Movie Connections:

Features The Big, Weird Normal (2002)

Splendidly dark comic tale, a real treat

Lucky McKee's "Masters of Horror" offering is a splendidly dark comic tale about an eccentric and frustrated lesbian, played brilliantly by Angela Bettis, who falls for a younger, shy, artistic girl (genre favourite Erin Brown, aka Misty Mundae).

Bettis' character is fascinated with all things creepy crawly. Her rented apartment is an insect paradise, containing all manner of bugs. This bug theme is played out to the extreme in "Sick Girl" with humorous and dramatic results.

Like all the "Masters of Horror" series, this episode has great production values and delivers far more than you'd expect from an hour of television.

Highly recommended.