Sickhouse, which stars digital influencers Andrea Russett and Sean O'Donnell, follows a group of friends obsessed with social media whose excursion into the woods toexplore the lore of Sickhouse turns deadly.
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LOS ANGELES — Sickhouse is ready for another Snapchat close-up.
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Sickhouse – which stars a handful of digital influencers – follows a group of friends as they embark on a journey to visit a seemingly abandoned house in the woods, dubbed Sickhouse, after an urban legend about the location intrigues the group.
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Sickhouse is a horror film from the mind of Hannah Macpherson and is completely comprised of brief Snapchat videos.
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Entitled "Sickhouse", the made-for-mobile film follows social media celebrity Andrea Russett and her friends as they head into the woods to explore an abandoned cabin.
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Sickhouse has a very rich mythology, so creatively we felt like there were great opportunities to continue to explore the material in new, unexpected, and frightening ways.
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BROADLY: Sickhouse feels like a logical progression of what was being done with earlier found footage films like The Blair Witch Project, when hand-held cameras were still a "modern" medium.
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Every time it seems like cinema's exhausted the concept, we get something like Sickhouse, made possible by Snapchat, a technology that didn't even exist when The Blair Witch Project came out.
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The film, which stars digital influencers Andrea Russett and Sean O'Donnell, follows a group of friends obsessed with social media whose excursion into the woods to explore the lore of Sickhouse turns deadly.
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Starting out as a dare, the teenagers' trip to the woods and the haunted Sickhouse—broadcast at first as "real life" over five days, on the Snapchat account of its star—soon devolves into something more sinister.
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While we consider Snapchat to be synonymous with LOL-worthy filters and sneak peeks of new Kylie Lip Kit shades (natch), social media star Andrea Russett is reimagining the media-sharing platform as we know it with the release of Sickhouse, a live horror film shared on her Snapchat over the course of five days.
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The Sickhouse was first built in the 14th century as a leprosy house far outside the then city of Feldkirch. The Magdalenenkirche next to the infirmary also dates back to the same century. It is reported that the Magdalenen church suffered severe damage in a fire in 1557. The Sickhouse might be damaged or destroyed in the same fire.
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The film's plot centers around Russett, who ventures to a supposedly haunted cabin named "Sickhouse" with her fictitious cousin, and two social media addicts, in an attempt to investigate its lore. The actors for Sickhouse improvised most of their dialogue as the movie was filmed in real time on Snapchat. Since the movie's release, Sickhouse has been compared to the 2014 horror movie Unfriended, for its usage of social media as a storytelling technique, and the 1999 film The Blair Witch Project, for its similar premise. Due to the film's popularity online, a sequel to the film was greenlit in July 2016.
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The subject then changes to the Sickhouse and the two read a website that explains the legend of the home and the Sickwife who lived there. They also run into two of Andrea's fans, who ask to take a picture with her. Infatuated with her cousin's life and freedom, Taylor decides that she wants to remain with Andrea forever. Later that night the two cousins attend a house party with Sean and two others, Lukas and JC. Lukas, who has visited Sickhouse before, goes over the rules of the Sickhouse: don't make noise, never go inside, and always leave a gift.
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The Sickhouse is a 2008 horror film, directed by Curtis Radclyffe, produced by Charlotte Wontner and starring Gina Philips, Kellie Shirley and Alex Hassell.
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In 2013, Russett began designing her own clothing line, FLAWD Clothing. (As of Aug 2019, the clothing website no longer exists, and social media accounts for the line have been inactive since Jun 2015.) Since achieving YouTube fame, Russett has appeared in several movies including Expelled (2014), Lovesick (2016), and Sickhouse (2016). Sickhouse is a thriller film that was initially released in brief increments via her Snapchat account. She also attended a few VidCon events, for meet-and-greets with her fans.
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Sickhouse is a 2016 thriller that was written and directed by Hannah Macpherson and starring YouTube personality Andrea Russett. The film was initially released between April 29 and May 3, 2016 on the instant image messaging mobile app Snapchat via Russett's account in one to ten second increments in the mobile 9:16 vertical orientation. On June 1, 2016, the film's production company, Indigenous Media, released a 68-minute full length version that was released to VOD. This version of Sickhouse utilized the clips released to Snapchat, which made up the bulk of the film, as well as new, additional material.
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The group return to the Sickhouse to replace the stolen gifts, only for Taylor to run inside. Sean decides to follow her, leaving Andrea and Lukas to wait outside. Soon after Taylor runs out of the house and the door slams shut behind her.
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Main building Feldkirch Sickhouse (Siechenhaus), Feldkirch, Vorarlberg, Austria, is listed an Austrian monument of cultural significance. The group of two buildings was erected in the late 16th or early 17th century. Far outside the city of Feldkirch a leper house was founded in the 14th century. The former building might be destroyed in the year 1557.
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Timber-framed houses only appear in Vorarlberg, The building was used for a short time as an emergency shelter for education, after the Feldkirch high school was damaged in a major fire on 6 August 1697. The maintenance of the Sickhouse was supported by meadows and fields in the vicinity of the building. In 1847, they were sold to a local manufacturer. In the 20th century, the house served as accommodation for impoverished families.
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During the party, Taylor silently observes Sean and Andrea discussing her before sharing a kiss, which upsets Taylor. The group sets out for the Sickhouse the following day despite warnings from local residents to stay away. As they grow closer to the cabin Taylor continues to broadcast using Andrea's account, growing irritated when others try to use their phones to document the trip. The group also runs into the two fans again, which Andrea dismisses as a coincidence.
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Yet the Indonesian language inherited many words from Dutch: words for everyday life as well as scientific and technological terms. One scholar argues that 20% of Indonesian words can be traced back to Dutch words, many of which are transliterated to reflect phonetic pronunciation e.g. ' "office" in Indonesian is kantor, while bus "bus" becomes bis. In addition, many Indonesian words are calques of Dutch; for example, rumah sakit "hospital" is calqued on the Dutch ziekenhuis (literally "sickhouse"), kebun binatang "zoo" on dierentuin (literally "animal garden"), undang-undang dasar "constitution" from grondwet (literally "ground law").
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The film begins with Snapchat personality Andrea Russett announcing to her followers that her cousin Taylor was flying to visit her for the weekend. This coincides with a Twitter request she had received from Sean O'Donnell, who wants Andrea to visit a supposedly haunted cabin called "Sickhouse". Once Taylor arrives the two women bond and Andrea teaches her cousin to use her Snapchat, which Taylor uses to publish a video of Andrea sleeping, the first of many videos posted by Taylor throughout the film. The next day Andrea discovers death threats on her cousin's Facebook page, revealing that Taylor actually came to Los Angeles to escape a dire situation back at home.
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