Ick

An Eighties-era horror-comedy. Ick is
a true ride designed to hold, thrill, kiss and
kill you.Great cast, excellent visual effects,
and perfectly edited and executed scenes.

Director said he intended it as an horror movie for the whole family. I can see that. So I'm a bit old for that, and I would have much preferred a_real_ horror movie, but I can definitely see this become cult for a younger generation (if it gets the chance to be distributed enough). Honestly, great work on that.

I had a bit of a hard time to get into it, since a long part of the beginning is a series of fast cuts into the protagonist life. A weird choice that didn't agree too much with me. But once the story really starts it's kinda nice to follow.

One part of effort fortyhe family friendly restriction, apart on stopping real horror, is also that there is absolutely no emotional impact of character's deaths. I mean at some point [spoiler]both of Grace's parents[/spoiler] die, it's barely shown, the moment she learns of it is skipped, and there is absolutely no impact on this later. In the whole movie, absolutely nobody cares that anybody dies. And this is weird. This feels wrong. I don't know whether it was intentional, but I feel it really removes a lot of what could make it memotable.

The concept itself is great, this somethitg there that everybody ignores (which now would remind us of CoViD except it was already written before that) until it's too late. The effects are actually extremely good for a movie that didn't have that much of a budget.

Something rare, humour is non partisan. So there is some anti-woke humour that panders to a more conservative audience while also making fun on how their view of the world is ridiculously incompatible with common sense and basic survival (mostly references to real life events I think), in a _Don't look up_ way.

I got a bit of an issue with the climax scene. They manage to stop the Ick using [spoiler]the stadium's lights[/spoiler], just to discover that it actually can [spoiler]just attack them underground to make them fail[/spoiler], and so they just decide to... [spoiler]go up the higher structure available to get in the sun[/spoiler] like it could not do the same thing and make the whole thing fall...