Sissy Reviews
Tina Kakadelis Beyond the Cinerama Dome
Sissy is a fun, gory slasher flick that’s perfect for sleepovers and viewings with large groups of friends. If anything, Sissy could have gone further in its reflections on the enduring effects of childhood bullying.
Full Review | Jul 24, 2023
Craig Mathieson The Age (Australia)
Barlow and Kane Senes, the film’s co-writers and co-directors, slip easily between satiric humour and gory ramifications. They get the genre’s conventions, but with Dee’s committed performance leading the way, they refuse to simply accept them.
Full Review | Jun 14, 2023
Graeme Tuckett Stuff.co.nz
Sissy is a smart, sassy and unafraid wee film that knows its audience and yet never panders to our expectations.
Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 10, 2023
Terry Mesnard Gayly Dreadful
Once Sissy embraces the slasher subgenre, it begins throwing fantastic moments of gore and violence at the audience while still keeping the tongue-in-cheek satire vicious and razor sharp.
Full Review | Dec 17, 2022
Heather Wixson Daily Dead
An ingenious story that dives into some topical issues these days, like bullying and the duality of our online personas versus the harsh realities of our offline lives, but also wholly entertains as it delivers up some stylishly gnarly kills and visuals.
Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 17, 2022
Michael Sun ABC Radio (Australia)
An entertainingly schlocky parody of influencer culture.
Full Review | Dec 16, 2022
Jenn Adams Rue Morgue Magazine
Sissy is a hilarious and viscous horror comedy that dares us to explore how we view ourselves and how we treat each other.
Full Review | Dec 16, 2022
Dallas King The People's Movies
Sissy is certainly no sissy when it comes to making some daring choices. However one's appreciation and enjoyment of them will ultimately come down to where their allegiances lie. As the youth of today might say Hashtag Conflicted!
Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 13, 2022
Sarah Ward Concrete Playground
If Mean Girls was a slasher film set in an off-the-beaten-track home in Australia, it might look something like Sissy, which is a compliment multiple times over.
Full Review | Nov 12, 2022
Cris Kennedy The Canberra Times (Australia)
While this film does descend into traditional gore-horror, for me the real horrors are those awful and uncomfortable social constructs of being thrown into challenging social environments.
Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 8, 2022
Andiee Paviour Nobody's Reading This But Me
No sacred cow is safe when old scores run amok over a hellish weekend everyone involved should have avoided.
Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 3, 2022
Paul Byrnes Sydney Morning Herald
It’s far from perfect, but it has a fresh tone and the desire to take risks.
Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 3, 2022
Jim Schembri jimschembri.com
The year’s dream run of inventive rule-bending, convention-respecting horror films that deliver rounded, visceral, deeply satisfying experiences continues with Sissy, a marvellously loopy nutbar of a film.
Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 2, 2022
Luke Buckmaster Guardian
Impressively unpredictable all the way to the bitter end – a very difficult and commendable achievement, in a genre as coded and conventionalised as horror.
Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 1, 2022
A. Tony Jerome Autostraddle
Cecilia [Aisha Dee] achieves, within three minutes, one of the strongest and most depressing openings to a movie I’ve seen in a minute.
Full Review | Oct 21, 2022
Anthony O'Connor FILMINK (Australia)
… a lurid, engaging, violent little morality tale with great performances, creative (albeit cartoony) gore and enough dark twists to keep all but the dourest genre fan happy.
Full Review | Original Score: 14.5/20 | Oct 10, 2022
Joel Fisher Battle Royale With Cheese
Sissy strikes the right balance between the dark and the light as it tells a story about how we all hide a little something of ourselves from others.
Full Review | Oct 9, 2022
Dennis Harvey 48 Hills
A stylish black comedy whose interesting angles include an over-the-top, lush orchestral score, Sissy is simultaneously clever, entertaining, and discomfiting.
Full Review | Oct 3, 2022
Kevin Wight The Wee Review
Succeeds in its precarious balance of tones, and its push-me-pull-you impulses between genuine psychological insight and full-on gonzo slasher
Full Review | Original Score: 4 | Oct 1, 2022
Jon Mendelsohn CBR
Equipped with stunning cinematography and a captivating lead performance, Sissy proves to be the perfect blend of horror and satire.
Full Review | Oct 1, 2022