Two cute little teenybopper girls with a murder blog decide they want to become serial killers. The film starts with a Jason/Michael Meyers-style killer attacking a couple on a lovers' lane. The girl gets away and is chased by the killer when we realize she's led him into a trap, and that's when we learn about their plan to take over the killings happening in their small town, while at the same time gaining social media accolades for their scoops on the ongoing murders. Brianna Hildebrand and Alexandra Shipp are quite funny and likable as the death-obsessed teens, as they glibly plan out their reign of terror and obsess over their Twitter page. It's a pretty dark comedy, and although it's fairly graphic at times, it never achieves the cleverness of the original SCREAM or subverts sexist genre tropes as smartly as GINGER SNAPS or JENNIFER'S BODY. Still, Hildebrand and Shipp make the film fun and worth watching, though Kevin Durand also gets a shoutout for being both funny and scary as the town's real killer, who spends most of the movie tied up by heroines. Overall, not a classic, but fun to watch at least once if you're a horror movie fan. BONUS MOVIE TIP! If you do want a movie that is legit clever about subverting the slasher film genre, checkout BEHIND THE MASK: THE RISE OF LESLIE VERNON, a fake documentary that follows around the killer planning his night of terror.
