Sissy (2022)
October 5, 2022 8:34 AM - Subscribe

Cecilia and Emma were tween-age BFFs who were going to grow old together and never let anything come between them, until Alex arrived on the scene. Twelve years later, Cecilia is a successful social media influencer living the dream of an independent, modern millennial woman... until she runs into Emma for the first time in over a decade. Emma invites Cecilia away on her bachelorette weekend at a remote cabin in the mountains, where Alex proceeds to make Cecilia's weekend a living hell.

Starring Aisha Dee, Yerin Ha, Lucy Barrett, Hannah Barlow, Daniel Monks, Emily De Margheriti, Shaun Martindale.

Written & directed by Hannah Barlow & Kane Senes.

97% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes.

A Shudder original. JustWatch listing.
posted by DirtyOldTown (5 comments total)
 
This would be a good double feature with Bodies Bodies Bodies, in that it's a very Now, very This Generation kind of thing that isn't hard to guess, but is presented with some laughs, some dark humor, some gore, and a lot of energy.

And man, the wheel over the head bit.
posted by DirtyOldTown at 10:59 AM on October 5, 2022 [2 favorites]


I was iffy on this one, it has some great moments but overall sort of fails to establish a coherent tone. Also it's strange to have a modern movie where the bullied character actually is dangerously unstable. That felt off to me. Aisha Dee is amazing in it, though, and I did laugh quite a bit at one particular character's unexpected demise. (It involved them turning into a dummy for a wide shot, which I always find endearing.)
posted by tomorrowromance at 11:31 AM on October 5, 2022 [1 favorite]


The reviews refer to this film as a "trauma satire" and in the synopsis on RT it ends with #triggered I'm not sure what a trauma satire is. I am not sure I want to find out.
posted by miss-lapin at 1:46 PM on October 5, 2022


I still can’t figure out how the guy fell off a very looooong cliff face AND he was on the same “level” as Alex.

I mostly enjoyed this but there’s a whole racism bullying element that the film throws but then really pulls back on. It was confusing. Still not sure what it’s trying to say. But it was overall cringe and I enjoyed it. Couldn’t watch the smash y bits though.
posted by iamkimiam at 2:38 PM on January 7, 2023 [1 favorite]


Wife and I watched this, this past weekend. We both liked it, though me more so since she's not as big a horror fan in general. I though it was really interesting and its not often we get to see a horror movie from the killers point of view in quite this way. It would of been easy to make her just someone having a break with reality who ends up killing her "Friends" and while there are bits of that, she is very much aware enough of what was going on to fake injuries and "spin" the story using her social media following to her own advantage.

@DirtyOldTown "This would be a good double feature with Bodies Bodies Bodies" funnily enough we watched Bodies Bodies Bodies last weekend and Sissy this past weekend and they do make a decent double feature for horror where everyone is chronically "on-line".
posted by Captain_Science at 5:48 AM on March 11


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