About Stefan Halley
Location: Malmo, Sweden
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Bio: Stefan has been writing reviews for seven years and started Pop Syndicate out of need to voice his mis-guided opinion.
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You’ll be sick you wasted your time watching it.
The Sickhouse should have been a creepy fun haunted house film but due to poor editing and sloppy directing, it’s a tedious mess lacking any real punch. Gina Phillips leads the cast of fodder to their untimely demise as they try to escape from a hospital that may have been used by a mysterious death cult years ago.
Phillips plays Anna, an archaeologist grad student that wants one final shot at a site that was once visited by the black plague. The soil at the site, where an abandoned hospital now lies, is infected with the nasty virus. Also, a doctor at the hospital may have been involved with a death cult that targeted children.
Turns out the virus may have become active again after taking a few hundred years nap. The hospital is due to be demolished and Anna figures she can prove her theory if she has on last chance before the hospital is destroyed.
Of course she does something stupid and gets into trouble but not before four hoodlums steal a car, hit someone and hide out in the same abandoned hospital. Before you can say “Casper” a weird beak masked ghost appears and starts offing the fools one by one.
Overall, it’s pretty banal stuff, except for a ghastly moment involving a pregnant chick. Phillips does a good job but the rest of the cast just wait to die. Thankfully, the ending lifts The Sickhouse a little but not enough for me to recommend it. If you see this on a movie channel one night it wouldn’t be a bad watch but I wouldn’t pay money to see it. New Line didn’t have much faith in the film either as there are no bonus features.
