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Sick
Horror/suspense film that uses the idiocy of the so-called "pandemic" as the basis for and crux of the plot.
Two college girls in Colorado leave campus behind to "quarantine" at the vacation home of one of the pair. It's a really swanky, secluded, rich person's log cabin style abode.
One of the two is a mask-obsessed freak who stresses over the plandemic, down to constant masking, hosing the air with lysol and even wiping down the (very few) groceries they bring with disinfectant wipes.
The other is mask averse, has a very cavalier attitude toward the whole plandemic overreaction. She has to be forced to put on the ridiculous, worthless, ineffective face diaper and sheds it as soon as possible in every situation.
I liked the mask-averse girl. She wasn't like the typical horror/thriller central girl. She wasn't perfectly made up, impeccably dressed (or really even stylish). She was short. She had a few pounds on her. She was, essentially, a girl you could actually possibly know. I found that refreshing and appealing. I also liked her physical manifestations of rage. She was great with that.
The other one, a heavy-set black girl, I didn't care for as much. Her mask whining got on my nerves pretty badly. She wasn't nearly as effective at the rage or physicality. In a movie like this where there are essentially two "final girls" they need to be evenly matched and I didn't find that to be the case here.
Basic storyline. After girls flee to cabin for their quarantine party, a rejected boyfriend of the girl I liked shows up after dark. She isn't inclined to provide the snootch despite his pleas so he agrees to leave the next day.
Masked marauders make that impossible.
The rationale for their home invasion is unintentionally (or perhaps intentionally?) hilarious and ties back into the whole "why aren't you wearing a mask" theme.
The girls and the dude battle the invaders in some very-well choreographed and brutal fight scenes. Blood is spilled. People don't make it out.
It struck me as funny because of the whole Covid masks thing - which we all now know (well, almost all I think there might still be one denier lurking around here) was a complete scam. It reminded me of just how stupid, fascist, and controlling that period of time was, and how sheepishly moronic far too much of the population was as it followed along with the draconian (and completely made up) rules.
One odd note? If you're a Frasier fan, you'll see a much older Mel (Niles' short-term spouse) as one of the mask loons. I don't know that she's done anything since Frasier, but there she was.
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