Sissy

There’s nothing quite like the heartbreak and devastation of a best-friend break-up when you are a kid. Your entire universe collapses, and while not exactly a capital-T Trauma in the grand scheme of things, for some those wounds play a formative role in carving the doubts and insecurities that follow us into adulthood. Enter Cecilia (Aisha Dee), a lonely but increasingly successful social media wellness influencer who through total chance bumps into her early high school BFF Emma (Hannah Barlow) on the cusp of the latter’s wedding.

Australian writer/directors Hanna Barlow and Kane Senes bring mean girls, social media savagery, fear of being cancelled, the repercussions of childhood trauma, and gore, gore, gore to their comedy horror mashup Sissy. Aisha Dee is both luminescent and looney tunes as the title character Sissy, or as she has calls herself to her 200,000 IG followers, Cecilia.