drnrg31 This is a great movie for all gore fans. It has wackiness, Horror ,a bit a of dementia and plenty of gore and blood.The premise is pretty crazy; as a room full of friends get together for a reunion of sorts. They are soon visited by Mr. Suitcase; who is wonderfully portrayed by Horror icon Bill Mosely. If you are familiar with his Otis character, then you know what to expect. He shows up with a suitcase full of razors,asks the kids to name specific people they hate and then performs a manic self inflicting blood letting act on himself. This somehow has conjured up some Demon like beast right out of Tobe Hoopers Fun House to kill off the said mention hated people. One of the friends actually just names "Everyone in the room" out of spite, not knowing what he has caused. Bill Mosley's scene reminded me of the crazy hitch hiker in 1976's Texas Chainsaw Massacre.The only other two actors I recognized are Tom Towels as the twisted Red neck uncle and Tiffany Shepis as the vixen. She bares her boobs and soul as she actually does a great performance upon finding her dead mother.She really has developed into a horror scream queen herself and I really wish Rob Zombie would get her to act in his next film.The rest of the actors are their for support mainly and they act bad on purpose. It's so over the top, that you know the director calls for it. These kids are really messed up. Dark circles around the eyes, maniacal laughter and are gore hounds themselves....and they die in the goriest and nastiest fashions imagined. I also found it funny to see that the one level headed character; Mark, played by Forrest Pitts; actually has a sort of Brad Pitt look and Accent.Did I mention the gore? Buckets & Buckets and yet still looked Tom Savini worthy. there are also bone crunches, decapitations, and head bashing. In fact the head kills seems to be the demon's first choice when hacking and slashing.All in All this flick is a great entry into Horror/Gore cinema. I recommend for all fans of the genre.

bivmanfor20 I have been waiting to see this movie and when i finally saw it I was not disappointed! The effects were awesome. It was gory as heck. Bill Moseley was awesome in it as well as Tom Towels (Both of Rob Zombie Fame). All the characters that were high looked like garbage and acted way out of the ordinary. I think the director and writer were trying to portray a message with that. But the acting was was good and there was some weird humor in it. To me, when a movie has you thinking about it long after it ends it is a good movie and this one had me thinking about it long after I watched it. I hope to see what else E.L. Katz (Writer/Producer) comes up with in the future. I hope it is as crazy, whacked-out and gory as "Home Sick" was. If your a horror fan than you should not miss this!

keenertrain-1 I was fortunate enough to catch this at a limited screening in my home town. I initially attended because it is my sincere belief that Tom Towles is one of America's most over-looked actors; consider, for example, his insightfully acted performance in Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986, McNaughton). I was fascinated that he was going to be gracing a local film.To be honest, I was expecting very little from Home Sick. There seem to be a dozen indie horror filmmakers for every street. Most are sloppy gorefests that are, at best, terrible pseudo-hybrid remakes with descriptions like The Blair Witch Project meets The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. However, it became increasingly apparent as the film rolled that Wingard's Home Sick owed more to Renoir than Riami.The rainy shots that play under the opening credits, for example, seemed to be a direct homage to Renoir's unfortunately obscure Nana (1926). I, of course, attributed this to an over-ambitious hope that someone else (a filmmaker from Alabama, no less!) has seen this forgotten masterpiece. After the screening, though, my suspicions were confirmed; the delightfully kind Adam Wingard did acknowledge his debt to Renoir (as well as Resnais, Bergman, Schlondorff and, perhaps most surprisingly - Russian fantasy-film icon Aleksandr Rou!) However, he assured me, as I was also able to assess myself throughout the screening, that he was aiming for more than Altmanesque nods to the art-house classics that he adored.What refrains Wingard from merely imitating the grand successes of the important filmmakers that came before him is that his dystopian outlook is injected into a clever and non-judgmental deconstruction of the gorefest horror subgenre. Wingard has a perceptive understanding of this subgenre that I know I haven't seen since Zulawksi and his masterwork, Possession (1981). Many would here point to Miike as a more apt and comparable filmmaker, but it seems evident, at least to me, that Miike is a poor man's Kiyoshi Kurosawa with all of the aggravating flaws of Rainer Werner Fassbinder and none of the master filmmaker's attributes.Home Sick suffers a terribly low rating here at IMDb and I am not surprised as many seem to be coming from irate Bill Moseley fans expecting another Essence of Echoes (2002, Rikert). Wingard surpasses Rikert and his embarrassing attempts at cinematic innovations by embracing that film does in fact have a history without resorting to simply visually quoting the best decisions of great filmmakers, such as Tarkovsky, Clement or Deren.Home Sick is an original masterpiece and undoubtedly the most important horror film since Dreyer's Vampyr or Bergman's Hour of the Wolf.

courtneycritic I just reviewed a rough copy of this film "I did say rough copy". I think this is a true slasher film "100%". I do think however that slasher fans will be the only ones who understand and appreciate this film. Slasher fans will be very excited once this hits video shelves. For the budget that was given I think the production level looks great. It seems the writer and director meant for this to be an all out slasher feast. There are some very comical characters that are so nuts that they are truly frightening. People who watch this film need to be aware that the gore is VERY HEAVY. I have not seen this much gore in a independent film in a long time. Some of the gore scenes will make your bones tingle. Characters "My Favorite Characters" that will catch your attention: Mr. Suitcase-- "Bill great motivational speaker" Devin-- "Truly Funny redneck character that is in a weird way Scary" Uncle Johnny-- "Great redneck outlaw TOM!"Slasher fans get ready for HOME SICK because it is a non stop roller-coaster of gore and wild characters.Have fun!