Tragedy Girls (2017)

Tragedy Girls (2017)

A twist on the slasher genre, following two death-obsessed teenage girls who use their online show about real-life tragedies to send their small mid-western town into a frenzy and cement their legacy as modern horror legends. Best friends Sadie and McKayla are on a mission to boost their social media fandom as amateur crime reporters hot on the trail of a deranged local serial killer. After they manage to capture the killer and secretly hold him hostage, they realize the best way to get scoops on future victims would be to, you know, murder people themselves. As the @TragedyGirls become an overnight sensation and panic grips their small town, can their friendship survive the strain of national stardom? Will they get caught? Will their accounts get verified?

Rating: R (for strong bloody horror violence, and language including some sexual references)

Genre: Comedy, Horror

Directed By: Tyler Macintyre

Written By: Chris Lee Hill, Tyler Macintyre

In Theaters: Oct 20, 2017 Limited

Box Office: $58,016

Runtime: 90 minutes

Studio: Gunpowder & Sky

The Movie is a nice twist to the Slash/comedy genre. With good Performances from the lead actors. In the meantime, I don't want to oversell a near-great B-movie that is nonetheless a B-movie. Suffice to say Tragedy Girls has great fun with myriad horror movie tropes.For the most part the movie cranks visceral, caffeinated thrills out of its teenage-meat grinder. Yet at times Attempting to combine Clueless-style humor revolving around self-absorbed high school girls with slasher film tropes, Tragedy Girls proves neither funny nor scary enough to be distinctive. But to summarize it's got girl power for days, and also functions nicely as a satiric take on our current obsession with true crime as entertainment fodder.Tragedy Girls is essentially Scream 4, but instead of insultingly stupid it's relentlessly fun with sharp insight.

The movie put forth something different for the audience to enjoy so I would recommend the movie to some targetted audiences. In the Instagram age, Tyler MacIntyre's "Tragedy Girls" in the runtime lacks the satirical chop and subversive pounds of that 1988 cult classic. But the movie's central idea and bright young cast are so to the point that some of its Void is forgivable. Brianna Hildebrand and Alexandra Shipp (both of whom ought to be huge stars in some years) play Sadie and McKayla, high school best friends whose obsession with popularity and crime leads them to brand themselves "the Tragedy Girls." Intending to become local heroes — and boost their social media profiles — they kidnap an actual serial killer, then commit a string of murders that they eventually plan to pin on their prisoner. It'll take a top level tolerance for pitch-brown slapstick comedy to enjoy the flick. There are pretty funny jokes though, thanks in large part to the liveliness of Hildebrand and Shipp, and the way MacIntyre mixes the cool spirit of 1980s teen comedies with mayhem. It does have a strong, Side Slash !

I would rate the movie a 3.25/5 #Moviereview #Hollywoodreview #Tragedygirls #Blogging #vigalcollective