Sissy is the latest Aussie film (along with horror film) to hit the big screen as part of my The Masked Cinema 2022 series.
Teen best friends Cecilia and Emma, after a decade run into each other. Cecilia is invited on Emma's bachelorette weekend where she gets stuck in a remote cabin with her high school bully with a taste for revenge.
Aisha Dee is Cecilia or Sissy depending on who you ask. She was bullied as a child, which leads to a horrific incident. As an adult though she is Cecilia the 200K wellness influencer.
Wellness influencer! If you like me are thinking, fucking hell, how qualified do you need to be? How does one get 200,000 followers? Well by living in a dodgy apartment somewhere near Canberra with dishes piling up in your sink while having a green screen set up in the living room. All amongst empty pizza boxes.
A wellness influencer eating pizza? Yes Sissy pokes fun at the Kardashian, bullshit of our modern 2022 world. Where everyday people think they know these "celebrities"/influencers.
Sissy is absolutely far from perfect, it's also almost way to woke. I know call me a right winger but having a gay, disabled character saying Yass Queen along with any other gay stereotype saying, the film filmed/set somewhere outside Canberra really ticks the diversity boxes.
The gore is a little bit too much at times, however maybe that's what horror streaming platform Shudder wanted for their audiences.
I love to support Aussie films, so I will pass this. It's slightly original, it's very dark but at times a little funny.
2022 is really the year for the horror genre. 3 Stars. I'm being overly kind, however the first half of the film really did shine, maybe a shorter run time may have also benefited the couple behind me who left in the last twenty minutes of the film.
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