Kat Halstead Common Sense Media Jun 27, 2025

With a playful tone and a likable central performance, this influencer horror is a fun watch that only gets more enjoyable as it descends into bloody chaos.

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Aaron Murray Loud and Clear Reviews Jan 18, 2025 4/5

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.

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Isabella Liistro Loud and Clear Reviews Jan 18, 2025

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

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Tina Kakadelis Beyond the Cinerama Dome Jul 24, 2023

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.

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Craig Mathieson The Age (Australia) Jun 14, 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.

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Graeme Tuckett The Post NZ Feb 10, 2023 4/5

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

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Terry Mesnard Gayly Dreadful Dec 17, 2022

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.

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Heather Wixson Daily Dead Dec 17, 2022 4/5

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.

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Michael Sun ABC Radio (Australia) Dec 16, 2022

An entertainingly schlocky parody of influencer culture.

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Jenn Adams Rue Morgue Magazine 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.

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Dallas King The People's Movies Nov 13, 2022 2/5

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!

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Sarah Ward Concrete Playground Nov 12, 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.

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Cris Kennedy The Canberra Times (Australia) Nov 8, 2022 4/5

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.

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Andiee Paviour Nobody's Reading This But Me Nov 3, 2022 4/5

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

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Paul Byrnes Sydney Morning Herald Nov 3, 2022 3/5

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

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Jim Schembri jimschembri.com Nov 2, 2022 3.5/5

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.

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Luke Buckmaster Guardian Nov 1, 2022 4/5

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

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A. Tony Jerome Autostraddle Oct 21, 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.

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Anthony O'Connor FILMINK (Australia) Oct 10, 2022 14.5/20

… 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.

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Joel Fisher Battle Royale With Cheese Oct 9, 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.

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