Peter Bradshaw 

Double Date review – sisters having a laugh on a nasty killing spree

British horror-comedy about a pair of siblings who pick up blokes to murder them in an occult ritual is weirdly unpleasant – and unfunny
  
  

Danny Morgan and Georgia Groome in Double Date
Humourless … Danny Morgan and Georgia Groome in Double Date Photograph: PR

There are a couple of reasonable moments in this Brit horror-comedy, and Georgia Groome is always a likable presence. But it feels weirdly nasty, unfunny and lame – like a homegrown, humourless Baise-Moi for a 90s ladmag audience. 

Groome and Kelly Wenham play Lulu and Kitty, two sisters who pick up clueless blokes for double dates, take them back to their palatial family home and kill them, for occult ritualistic motives. Kitty is supposed to be the more fanatical of the two, set up as a serious badass and a positive kickboxing ninja. (And yet towards the end the film is oddly reluctant to give Kitty the obvious easy victory in single combat over an untrained male: their fight goes on interminably.) 

Screenwriter Danny Morgan plays Jim, an unhappy virgin that the women have in their sights; Michael Socha plays his self-appointed wingman Alex. It ticks the genre boxes but with not much wit or style.

 

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