Sissy

I'm always up for a movie from Australia and this satirical comedy-horror constitutes another one worth seeing. It focuses in on an influencer who is invited to a hen weekend by a long lost pal. Things get complicated when she discovers that one of her old bullies is also going to be there.

This was a lot of fun, with a nice blend of comic antics with over-the-top - and well delivered - gory mayhem. The comic jabs at the influencer/social media culture were often pretty funny but its also not above having us get a good laugh at an annoying man on crutches being shoved off a cliff.

There has been a trend for horror movies with a message over the last few years and some of them have left me cold. The message part often means that the horror aspect is down played so as not to offend a broader audience. Luckily, this is not the case with Sissy.

This film addresses issues like mental health and social media influencers but still has a cracking horror movie at its heart. It borders on horror-comedy at times - but, if you're a gore hound - there's PLENTY for you here. I wasn't expecting a lot from this movie but it was nicely set up, the acting was good, the blood was splurting and, overall, it was an enjoyable 82 minutes.

Like most film's I go in blind I don't read the synopsis and don't watch the trailers so either a film's going to blow or you're gonna find a diamond in the rough.

Now obviously this is I'm assuming a largely unheard of film as at the time of writing this review it only has 70 other user reviews which is very low but I'm finding quite a few unexpected lil gems on shudder recently especially being new to the service. So when I turned on this film I had no idea what to expect.

Obviously it's and I'm guessing here an Australian indie low budget film and after the first half hour the jigsaw peices start too fall into place.

I read all the reviews on here and for those saying it's not a stereotypical horror I'd probably agree I would put it into the black or dark comedy pigeonhole but I'm pretty sure that still falls under the umbrella genre of horror especially with the gore which I was not expecting at all but still pleasantly shocked and amused by.

Again going into this film not knowing what to expect I was very surprised and entertained too which imo is the whole point of watching entertainment.

With people giving this 1's and 2 star reviews they day taste is subjective but cmon I've seen movies that were on that level and this isn't one of them if I was more cynical and scrutinised and picked holes in the film I'd probably give it a 6.8 but seeing how surprised I was by how entertaining the main character was. Well for me she stole the show for me and just how decent the film was in general I decided to give it an 8 but that's my score imo this films a solid 6.5/7 and for a horror that's good and for black comedy that's even better.

Watch it if you like dark comedies I'd say to watch it and if u like horror films I'd say to watch it too. My only gripe would be after you find out after 45 mins worth of film you can probably figure out how it's gonna go down but that's still a small gripe to have especially being a shudder original and especially seeing as 90% of what Hollywood churns out these days is actual garbage well deserving of 1 and 2 star reviews.

I thoroughly enjoyed this and would recommend but check it out for yourself and see what u think.

...but never really delivered. It is nonetheless a commentary, though extreme, on the impact of bullying and the bulltish of the influencer phenomonon. Described as a horror comedy, I wondered if the latter term was inadvertent. All that said, a very good cast...variously sweet (Aisha Dee and Hannah Barlow - great) and genuinely horrible (Emily De Margheriti, Daniel Monks and Grace Barrett, as a terribly unsympathetic psychologist).

I liked this movie more than I thought that I would. I was very shocked at how good it was do to the fact that the beginning was a little slow in my opinion. I was definitely rooting for Sissy in this movie and understood why she did what she did. I don't agree with her actions and I personally would not have done any of the things she did in this movie but I definitely understand why she did it. I have seen women with YouTube videos like the ones shown in this movie and it makes me think or wonder how many women could be like Sissy(promoting self love, security and positivity) but are in fact insecure themselves!!! Lol.