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.
It's 2017: We don't need movies to reward sociopathic parasites or homegrown mass murderers. We certainly don't need them to try to pass them off as relatably human.
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.
The movie wants to have it both ways: It wants to condemn the girls ... and it also wants to reap the bloody, often gruesome rewards of their psychopathy.
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.
... Imagine instead a Heathers that gleefully goes all the way past the point of nihilism, and ends up in a warped funhouse mirror reflection of society that blends camp and satire in equal measure...
