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Two teenage girls are charged with murder after posting images of their crime on social media.
Based on a true story, this troubling film was shot on mobile phones by the principal actors themselves. Fuelled by drink, drugs and the addiction of simply making a mark in an otherwise vacuous existence, the girls (Rebecca McDiarmid and Brodie Young) win the confidence of, and then mete out extreme violence on, a helpless stranger.
This climactic unpleasantness is redeemed to some extent by the veracity and energy of the performances and, crucially, by the film’s warning about the malignity rife on the Internet.
Warning: Scenes of disturbing violence.