Tragedy Girls (2017)

“To make an omelette, you have to kill some ex-boyfriends.”  26 October 2019

Best friends, Sadie Cunningham (Brianna Hildebrand) and McKayla Hooper (Alexandra Shipp) dream of becoming big social media stars.  Their plan is to take advantage of local tragedies. But to grow their audience and create more sensational content, they decide they need a serial killer in their sleepy little town.   

I wrote something similar just the other day, but it applies here as well - Tragedy Girls isn’t near as smart as it wants to be.  This isn’t Scream. I’ve seen too many movies made by filmmakers who seem to think that being “meta” is all it takes to create a clever movie.  While there are some good bits here and there (as my rating indicates), Tragedy Girls is ultimately fairly boring and predictable. I wasn’t shocked by what the girls were doing because I’ve seen it all before.  Finally, I’m sure that Brianna Hildebrand and Alexandra Shipp are fine actresses, but neither worked for me in this movie. They never drew me in. Instead, I found them and their characters generally annoying. Whether they were using some poor sap as bait in hopes of kidnapping a serial killer or butchering a classmate on their own, I couldn’t get into it because I found Sadie and McKayla so unappealing.  

4/10