Matrixiole
Simple and well acted, it has tension enough to knot the stomach.
Ketrivie
It isn't all that great, actually. Really cheesy and very predicable of how certain scenes are gonna turn play out. However, I guess that's the charm of it all, because I would consider this one of my guilty pleasures.
HomeyTao
For having a relatively low budget, the film's style and overall art direction are immensely impressive.
HorrorBuff235
As a rule I tend to judge a film by watching it myself. Taking heed of reviews, I thought this one may be worth a go. The opening titles were correct for the middle ages, especially the bird-like masks which as said in the film were worn by plague doctors & beaks stuffed with herbs and spices to 'prevent' breathing in the disease.The film begins with the typical headstrong protagonist despite warning wanting to investigate a newly discovered vault in an archaeological dig site (old London hospital) that could be potentially a bio-hazard & is advised to stay away. Of course she doesn't, at the same time we see a bunch of London teenagers on a jolly for their friends birthday driving erratically - cue crash. On deciding to peg it from police they hot-foot it into the same (closed down) hospital as the protagonist. They all meet up and chaos ensues.Nothing particularly striking, entertaining for people who gravitate towards horror genre. A different plot from most, same clichés - judge it on your own merit.
fedor8
Wobbly hand-held camera filming in the dark. Just great. Thanks, movie.In a sense, the fact that the camera wobbles doesn't matter much, coz the movie is shot mostly in the dark, with faint glimmers of light (usually just flashlights). Wobbling is pretty much invisible in the dark so as far as I was concerned the wobbling didn't bother me during the invisible scenes - which took up 80% of the movie btw.Hundreds of cameramen and future cinematographers spend years learning how to work the camera, having a steady hand and an eye for lighting - but then one day they get their first movie job and what does the director tell them? "Please wobble as much as you can, and no, we won't have any lighting, just pitch-black darkness". Yeah, why let the viewers see the action? What do THEY matter? This idiotic myth about the hand-held wobble giving movies more realism has got to stop. You want more realism? How about working on better scripts. Not that any kind of change in how the camera is operated would have saved this dull turkey. It's clichés galore, strictly fluff.We have a heroine who is so daft that she actually goes into a building suspected of contamination, just so she can pick a few clues relating to some 17th-century plague-priests. The fact that this moron is played by Gina Philips is just about the only good thing about the movie, and she's the only reason I downloaded this crap in the first place.Many modern movies suffer from an overuse of computers, which are recklessly abused when directors go into a colour-changing frenzy. TSH is basically all dark green. This dull flick would have actually profited from realistic, natural colours, not fake hues of computer-generated green, which just end up making it bland-looking and very stereotypical of this age.The way the four London yobs enter the building is ludicrous. I didn't quite understand that. Did they actually think the building was a functioning hospital? Sure yobos are dumb, but surely not that dumb.
bishopmichael28
Once you have reached the stage I have in watching films and believe me Im up their with some of the top critics, you begin to realize a pattern in movies that people rate well that are crap and movies that people rate bad that are different and just not mainstream enough. this movie deserves much more credit than it got. it deals with some pretty serious issues and has a twisted ending which makes it all the more better. but let me elaborate just a little bit this movie deals with the black plague and this was a truly scary time for England and the world for that matter. but the way it is carried and how it is developed makes it very interesting and extremely scary. watch it and imagine yourself in the situations of any of the characters and you too will see that this could happen to you or could it. thats what great about it, reality could be bent or can it. who knows that is up to you, the film watcher into what you choose to believe.
charlytully
Don't get the pun in my summary? Then this cheap British horror flick might be for you. If you do not want spoilers, you may read some of the positive comments a few stoners already have posted here. Otherwise:*** ******** ************ SPOILERS ************* *********Want something you can barely see, even when you use the undark special feature on your DVD remote? How about something that starts and finishes with unintelligible chanting by kids' ghosts? Want to see an archaeologist who's been poking around in an abandoned building "for months," but still has no idea of its floor plan? Wanna see this same chick hear her boss say the site has been quarantined and slated for immediate demolition due to an infestation of rats and plague germs (not all that unusual in many world cities), prompting her to cut through miles of police tape in the dead of night for a few more minutes of snooping? How about a security guard who gets knocked out early on, but pops up running like Jack Bauer at the last minute? Or four random hoods jabbering incomprehensible Brit slang implausibly locking themselves into this same abandoned building with "Lara Croft." And how often can you see a caper featuring three studs tooling around in a stolen car in the city center with a chick NINE MONTHS PREGNANT? Or getting into constant deadly fist fights with each other to claim credit for her pregnancy? With the expectant gal suddenly responding to her heebie-jeebies by tearing off ALL her clothes and hopping into a cement vat of cold water in front of these guys, where she soon "delivers" about five gallons of slugs? Or everyone ignoring a collage of eight-foot ghosts and decaying child ghosties (and if the characters cannot see these apparitions, why bother to show them to us?)? And most telling of all, if you appreciate a filmmaker who shows you a clock stuck on 11:59 (p.m.) every ten minutes to remind you that nothing you're watching is REALLY happening, and has the audacity to think he can throw in 30 seconds of quick-cuts action just before closing credits to explain what ACTUALLY went on according to a script which must have had more scribbled afterthoughts than typed original entries, then SICK HOUSE probably is up your dark alley.
