Two high school girls, Sadie (played by Brianna Hildebrand, more widely known as Negasonic Teenaged Warhead from the Deadpool movies) and McKayla, capture Lowell Orson Leemon, a serial killer (played by Kevin Durand) to help them up their social media profile. "We're about to graduate and go to college and we still haven't started our first killing spree," they explain to their furious captive. They need help too, because each murder they do gets reported as an accident or running away and isn't getting the high profile press they're desperate for. Charismatic and narcissistic BFFs, the fame-hungry girls get their friendship tested when Sadie gets together with Jordan, the local sheriff's put-upon son who helps them edit videos for their website. Sadie pulls away from McKayla, who takes it badly. Being a little psycho (at least more overtly so than Sadie), McKayla teams up with Lowell Leemon and the shit hits the fan at prom, of course.
Tragedy Girls is a lightweight slasher-esque movie that badly wants to be satire, skewering both today's youth and their thirst for likes/re-tweets/mentions/etc., as well as the traditional girls' roles in horror movies. Unfortunately, it just doesn't go far enough to truly be satire but I did find it entertaining enough. Slightly gory, not scary.
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