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Tragedy Girls injects familiar teen tropes with just enough up-to-the-minute commentary -- and pitch-black humor -- to work as an irreverently entertaining diversion. Read Critics Reviews
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- Tyler Macintyre
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- Alexandra Shipp
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By Witney Seibold
Updated: Oct 18, 2017 10:40 pm
Posted: Oct 18, 2017 7:57 pm
Borrowing its themes and tonal cues from sources as disparate as Clueless, Heathers, the Scream movies, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Nightcrawler, and Lucky McKee & Chris Sivertson's bonkers All Cheerleaders Die, Tyler MacIntyre's Tragedy Girls is a glittery, energetic, wicked, gory, enjoyably impish throwback slasher flick for the narcissist Instagram generation. It plays like Amy Hecklering's Clueless, but if Cher and Dionne were meaner, even more vain, and also serial killers. That they are serial killers, however, doesn't mean they're not lovable.
The titular Tragedy Girls are a pair of high school cheerleaders named Sadie (Brianna Hildebrand, Negasonic Teenage Warhead from Deadpool) and McKayla (Alexandra Shipp, Storm from X-Men: Apocalypse), two pretty young women who live in the top half of their high school's pecking order. Sadie and McKayla, partly out of extreme boredom, but mostly because they wish to build their own @TragedyGirls brand, have taken to murdering the occasional local or classmate in the hopes they could “cover” the violence for their fledgling pop news site. They then would organize vigils, be filmed wringing their hands, and generally foment the usual narrative of personal tragedy as has been spelled out for them by years of constant media consumption.
By the time we join them, our gleeful little killers have been at their bloody work for some time, and are unfazed by death and violence. Sadie and McKayla, with witty panache and weary ironic detachment, casually seek out their victims via catty cafeteria conversations, sussing out how to stage a theatrical crime scene, and what would make a better story. Oh yes, and for advice on the matter, they have also kidnapped an actual serial killer (Kevin Durand), whom they keep chained up in their shed, and whose terrifying escape is pretty much inevitable.
And while its social satire is funny and delicious and handled deftly – there is no mawkish preachiness at work – Tragedy Girls works best because of its surprising amount of heart. The protagonists are monsters, of course, but their chemistry and friendship is sweet, warm, and unassailable. They have their own shared vernacular and their personali...
Tragedy Girls is a gleeful blast of subversive energy in a landscape populated by too much safety; One's horror films should feel a little over the edge. It should not be surprising if Tragedy Girls, given that it finds a passionate enough audience and a few years to simmer in the pop consciousness, should become one the genre's next cult classics.
- Witney Seibold
Oct 19, 2017 · ‘Tragedy Girls’: Film Review. Two BFFs resort to serial killing to increase their social media prominence in Tyler MacIntyre's comic horror film 'Tragedy Girls.'
Tragedy Girls is great fun - a comedy slasher that tickles the funny bone, delivers the action and gore and cements the star power of leads Shipp and Hildebrand. Full Review | Sep 21, 2018
Savvy but gory satire on slasher flicks and social media. Read Common Sense Media's Tragedy Girls review, age rating, and parents guide.
- Tyler Macintyre
- Jeffrey M. Anderson
- Gunpowder & Sky
The film has received positive reviews. On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 84% based on 73 reviews, with an average rating of 7/10.
Oct 19, 2017 · Two high school social media stars and secretly budding serial killers, Sadie and McKayla, are holding a school assembly for one of their victims, a fellow cheerleader who got fresh about McKayla...
