Tragedy Girls (2017)

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	Year of first release: 2017
	Director: Tyler MacIntyre
	Actors: Alexandra Shipp (X-men: Apocalypse), Brianna Hildebrand (Deadpool 1-2), Josh Hutcherson (Red Dawn, The Hunger Games 1-3), Kevin Durand (Real Steel)
	Country: USA
	Genre: Thriller, Horror
	Conditions of visioning: 04.06.2017, Cinemateca Capitólio Petrobras, FANTASPOA2017
Synopsis: McKayla and Sadie (Shipp & Hildebrand) dream of becoming famous thanks to their Twitter account that thrives on tragedy. To help boost the number of followers, they kidnap the local serial killer (Durand) and don't hesitate to participate themselves.
Review: This is the kind of movie that makes me wonder whether I am not getting too old to appreciate such movies made by young directors with very young actors and following very modern codes. I already wondered the same after watching Detention (also with the eternal teenager Josh Hutcherson), Kaboom! or It Follows. Fortunately, once again and for how don't know how much more time, I manage to differentiate between the social behaviors shown and that I abhor, and the quality of the movie itself. Director Tyler MacIntyre, present at the FANTASPOA 2017 to introduce his movie (see picture below) manages nicely to reproduce a US high-school atmosphere, with the two BFFs ultra-happy and always glued to their phones. To that respect the movie sometimes feels Japanese (like when little pink hearts pour out of the phones). He also places some nice Horror movie classics references for who is there to find them: the family names of the heroins Cunningham and Hooper like the directors of respectively Friday 13th and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, a murder as seen in Cannibal Holocaust, a scene copied frame by frame to one of John Carpenter's Halloween... I appreciated that. And then I hope that his message in this movie is to criticize such behavior as the ones of the girls, living only through what others see of them in the social media. But it is not very clear and I would be tempted to think that he just pushes such behavior to the extreme with no particular goal. I should have asked him. The murders are bloody and funny enough and the conclusion very Carrie, but in the end I did not like the movie so much.
Rating: 5 /10 Director Tyler McIntyre (right) speaking with passion of his movie.