Kane Senes & Hannah Barlow’s Sissy is a fun and violent social media thriller with an outstanding lead performance at the helm from Aisha Dee.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 18, 2025

Garish, bloody, and thematically rich, Sissy is an underappreciated horror gem.

| Jan 18, 2025

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.

| Jul 24, 2023

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.

| Jun 14, 2023

Sissy is a smart, sassy and unafraid wee film that knows its audience and yet never panders to our expectations.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 10, 2023

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

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.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 17, 2022

An entertainingly schlocky parody of influencer culture.

| Dec 16, 2022

Sissy is a hilarious and viscous horror comedy that dares us to explore how we view ourselves and how we treat each other.

| Dec 16, 2022

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!

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 13, 2022

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.

| Nov 12, 2022

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.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 8, 2022

No sacred cow is safe when old scores run amok over a hellish weekend everyone involved should have avoided.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 3, 2022

It’s far from perfect, but it has a fresh tone and the desire to take risks.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 3, 2022

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.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 2, 2022

Impressively unpredictable all the way to the bitter end – a very difficult and commendable achievement, in a genre as coded and conventionalised as horror.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 1, 2022

Cecilia [Aisha Dee] achieves, within three minutes, one of the strongest and most depressing openings to a movie I’ve seen in a minute.

| Oct 21, 2022

… 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.

| Original Score: 14.5/20 | Oct 10, 2022

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.

| Oct 9, 2022

A stylish black comedy whose interesting angles include an over-the-top, lush orchestral score, Sissy is simultaneously clever, entertaining, and discomfiting.

| Oct 3, 2022