Sizzlin’ Summer of Side-Splitters 2025: #Horror (2015)

Aug 25-31 Natasha Lyonne Week: There’s a new season of her weirdo mystery of the week coming out (I can’t remember the name rn, you can look it up), and she’s been steadily delivering chuckles for decades now.

Harry Cox (Balthazar Getty) and his mistress Lisa (Lydia Hearst) are having sex just before he gets a call from his wife Alex (Chloë Sevigny). He hangs up, gets his throat slashed and she’s killed.

That’s how #Horror starts.

Twelve-year-old Sam (Sadie Seelert) may not fit in with the rich girls, but she’s been invited to a sleepover at Harry’s house. Hs daughter, Sofia (Bridget McGarry), Francesca (Mina Sundwall), Ava (Blue Lindberg) and Georgie (Emma Adler) have gathered and for some reason have invited their bully Cat (Haley Murphy).

The film has to make the decision that all post-mobile phone slashers do: how to get rid of those phones. Cat’s cyberbullying gets to be too much, so the girls lock their phones in the safe while Sofia throws the keys to get them out inside the swimming pool. When the young women aren’t abusing one another, a masked killer is wiping them — and parents — out and posting each of the murders.

Director and writer Tera Subkoff was inspired to make this after asking a friend’s daughter what horror was. Learning how she was cyberbullied, Subkoff realized that bullying now follows young women everywhere and is a major chunk of their lives.