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Country. United States. Language. English. Tragedy Girls is a 2017 American teen buddy comedy horror film directed by Tyler MacIntyre, written by Chris Lee Hill and MacIntyre, and starring Alexandra Shipp, Brianna Hildebrand, Josh Hutcherson, Craig Robinson, Kevin Durand and Jack Quaid. It was released on October 20, 2017, by Gunpowder & Sky.
Tragedy Girls. Teenage crime reporters Sadie and McKayla are hot on the trail of a crazed serial killer. After capturing the maniac and holding him hostage, they soon realize that the best way to ...
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Oct 20, 2017 · The appeal of Tragedy Girls is in its soft wickedness and game cast. Despite dealing with so much murder and mayhem, the gals are slaying peers only to slay on YouTube subscriptions, and with a ...
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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
Parents say (2 ): Kids say (1 ): Though it owes a great deal to other social media-obsessed movies, this dark comedy still has enough fresh venom and crazy cleverness to make it a fresh satirical entertainment. With Tragedy Girls, director/co-writer Tyler MacIntyre has enough courage to focus on characters who aren't perfectly likable or ...
- Tyler Macintyre
- Jeffrey M. Anderson
- Gunpowder & Sky
Oct 19, 2017 · In the case of Tragedy Girls, it takes two people: Best friends McKayla (Shipp) and Sadie (Hildebrand), who take audiences for a ride with some incredibly inventive and gory kill scenes, portrayed ...
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Tragedy Girls is 7277 on the JustWatch Daily Streaming Charts today. The movie has moved up the charts by 3542 places since yesterday. In the United States, it is currently more popular than Unlawful Entry but less popular than Trauma.
