Tragedy Girls

2017 Directed by Tyler MacIntyre

Friends who slay together, stay together

Following two death-obsessed teenage girls who use their online show about real-life tragedies to send their small Midwestern town into a frenzy and cement their legacy as modern horror legends.

Brianna Hildebrand Alexandra Shipp Jack Quaid Kevin Durand Timothy V. Murphy Nicky Whelan Elise Neal Craig Robinson Andy Bethea Keith Hudson Savannah Jayde Austin Abrams William Tokarsky Marycarmen Lopez Rosalind Chao Kerry Rhodes Jerry Peek Josh Hutcherson

Alternative Title

נערות טרגדיה

comedy horror

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Review by deah ★★★½ 6

the real tragedy is these girls never got to kiss each other
Review by brat pitt ★★★ 12

for half this movie i was like “why did they hire a 40-year-old to play this high school boy” and then when i finally paused to look the actor up on imdb i found out that that was dennis quaid’s 25-year-old son/my future husband jack, and i immediately took it back.
(ok, wait, now let me explain why i called him my future husband. part of my life plan is to marry jack quaid. i really think i can do it — he’s only three years older than i am and he’s not too famous (yet!!!). i know i can never be with dennis since he’s, like, 60 and it would be a scandal that would hurt his family-friendly career,…
Review by Hollie Horror ★★★½ 6

Tragedy Girls is an interesting homage to the slasher subgenre because it doesn't blend the tropes of the '80s and '90s or stick exclusively to one or the other, they clash for good reason. At the center of the film we have the '80s unstoppable hulking mass villain pit against the post-Scream, '90s teen/best friend-villains, and I love how it feels like two scripts crashing into one movie. The people who made this did so with care, just when you think "this is exactly like Scream," a high school student portrayed by an actor well into their 20s pops up which was commonplace in '80s slashers. There's the obsessed horror fanatic who is also the child of the local sheriff,…
Review by iana ★½ 7

when a director wants to show off how much of a ~cinephile~ he is so he drops a clunky dario argento reference in his poorly written screenplay
Review by Lulu ★★

this is the movie equivalent of the "how do you do fellow kids?" meme. literally every line is like "i was watching this woke obscure film called scream, you probably haven't even heard of it 😂 lol fam social media is so bae am i 💯?" and you can tell it's written by a grown ass man who has never said any of these words out loud and wouldn't know how to use them in a sentence at a spelling bee
Review by harry ★★★½ 1

The Edge of Se7enteen.
Review by arianna 🗡 ★★★★

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

fellas is it gay to kill your boyfriend with your best friend and then ride off into the sunset with her
Review by ethan ★★½ 2

do adults realise that teenagers dont actually speak in fucking hashtags???? like we dont just go around saying "hashtag hi hashtag how hashtag are hashtag you"
Review by Ian West ★★★½

Tragedy Girls blends 80’s slasher vibes with a post-Scream mentality.... creating a mean spirited romp threaded together by narcissistic social media trappings of the late 2010’s. It took me a while to get into it but there’s some good stuff in here... equal parts clever and repulsive, I liked this even more on revisit which surprised me since this kind of flick that moves into bleak outlook territory is sometimes a hit n miss for me, but this was a hit, especially that ending that “went there”
I gotta say that an actual realistic prom finale setting made me happy... taking place in a real gym with a few balloons, what looked like real high schoolers, and stringy star things hanging!!!…
Review by Stephanie ★★★½

This was so much fun! It should have been gay, oh my God it should have been so gay.
Review by <Todd> ★★½ 1

"And what about our missing pets!?" - Angry mob member, I get it.
This is why I don't fuck with cheerleaders, or weird girls. I especially don't fuck with the weird girl on the cheerleading squad.
Someone took the TV show ICarly and gave it a Serial Mom/Heathers vibe and threw it up onto movie screens in 2017 and that's how we get the Tragedy Girls. In the movie, two girls obsessed with death and murder end up getting involved in the murder game and promoting their web show about death. What happens when a boy gets involved and the stakes get higher?
Generally speaking I like the style of this film and the casting looks great... it's just not…
Review by Allison M. 🌱 ★★★ 2

So, these tragedy "girls" were really mean. I don't know if I liked them or hated them, but they sure were snarky to the point of ultra-selfawareness and even satire. You know, like when there's a video of when Trump is saying something and you don't know if you're watching the news or Saturday Night Live.
So the two leads were fabulous and I hope they become stars one day so I can watch their faces again.
This is the 54th film I saw with Movie Pass.
Vegan alert:
-Pets mysteriously disappeared.
-One girl fed someone dog food against their will.
Note: the focus was on human death and there was a lot of blood, stabbing, and cutting.

Recent reviews

Review by Travis Acevedo ★★★½

Eh, it doesn't quite work on second watch. The satire is too facile, the fun falters too quickly, and the dark amusement of being on the villains' side doesn't play as well on second viewing when it's obvious that the rube is actually the true victim in all this.
Still, Brianna Hildebrand is a true star. And the ending is very cute, psychotic as it is.
Review by melanie ★★½

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

I love corny slasher so this was entertaining. I appreciate the carrie inspired girl power ending 👏
Review by Allie ★★½

Movie 44/62 for October 2020: Some good laughs, and I’m a sucker for meta. But missed the mark a few places. Left some open holes. Didn’t play out it’s full extent. But had such great promise, and overall enjoyed the idea.
Review by Mackenzie Maguire ★★★½

These girls were out of pocket
Review by Logan ★★★★

Fun villain-focused comedy slasher. Felt really modern and enjoyable.
Review by ladybirdirene ★

Okay this could’ve been cool but the main characters were really unlikeable and so obsessed with social media. I wouldv’e made this a satire about the internet driving teenagers to insanity, but that was not attempted at all.
It look three men to write this garbage?
Review by cail

i love when GIRLS kill❤️
Review by Blaire Crits-Christoph

I made it to the start of the third act but out of complete boredom had to turn it off. The whole social media aspect felt contrived to me. Just really bad crime writing.
Review by screenthrilledx

Classic dark comedy. Fun as a slasher and gives me modern-day Heathers vibes. Devin’s been talking about this movie for awhile so we finally watched it.
Review by angelsummer ★★

this movie annoyed me but i was rly happy when they started playing always forever by cults
Review by linda ★★★

why is this not gay... plot hole
Review by Maxwell Patterson ★★★

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This turned out to actually be a thematically appropriate double-bill with Behind the Mask as both films have a meta element to their storytelling with traditional slasher tropes being incorporated into the fictional universe. That said, I ended up liking Tragedy Girls a lot more for two reasons: First, much like Cabin in the Woods, the priority here seems to be making an entertaining movie first, with the meta elements serving as a fun addition rather than the focus. The idea of a pair of social-media obsessed teen serial killers being way more horrible than the traditional serial killers they seek to emulate is a fun one, but it could easily have sunk under the weight of excessive in-jokes and…