Girl Talk!
2022 · 7m · United States
Directed by Andrew Huggins
Genres: dark comedy, horror, thriller
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic, tense
Dating advice goes wrong: a clever play on unlikely serial killers and relationship drama, with bad advice, worse dates, and a bloody payoff.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
Dating advice + serial killers is exactly the kind of premise that makes you go 'wait, WHAT?' before it clicks—a genuinely subversive collision of rom-com scaffolding and body-count logic that most scouts would dismiss as too cute by half, which means it's probably the most interesting thing in the pile.
The tonal control here is surgical: Huggins balances absurdist dark comedy against genuine thriller mechanics with the precision of someone aware of what Heathers and Eating Raoul already did in this register, and that formal restraint—knowing exactly when to pull back from the premise—is what keeps it from collapsing into mere gimmick.
The decision to play the dating advice itself completely straight—letting the banality of clichéd wisdom become the tonal engine rather than underline it with winks—is what makes the violence land; that single commitment to tone is doing all the heavy lifting on a seven-minute budget.
Reviews
Delightfully kooky and a clever play on unlikely serial killers and relationship drama. It's not easy being on the verge of tears and terror.