F Marry Kill Review – Murder in the App Age

“F Marry Kill” is what happens when an algorithm writes a slasher with a dating app hangover. It’s pretty. It’s pink. It’s sugar-coated murder. There are all the right faces and absolutely none of the right moves. Review of F Marry Kill (2025), a whodunnit horror about dating apps, red flags, and a serial killer on the loose. Produced by Buzzfeed Studios.

Swipe Right for Death

You can almost hear the studio boardroom: “Make it sexy, make it twisty, but also, make sure it hits every trending genre.” That’s called keyword stuffing, I mean horror trope stuffing. For the full trailer, check out this YouTube Video by Lionsgate.

Dating Is Already a Horror Show

This one’s for the true-crime girlies who fall asleep to Bailey Sairan and check their date’s social profile before the first drink. Eva (Lucy Hale) is a junkie for clues and killers. So when her own love life turns into a body count, she’s ready. Three dates. One killer. Let the games begin.

It’s the whodunnit version of a personality quiz: are you into the brooding artist, the finance bro, or the guy who remembers your coffee order and might also be hiding body parts in his freezer?

Candy-Colored Crime Scene

The palette is bubblegum and moody noir. Think Barbie meets Gone Girl. The murder setups? A little too clean. The dialogue? A little too perfect. The whole thing smells like a polished first draft spat out by a slightly unhinged content bot trained on TikTok voiceovers.

And somehow, that’s not a total dealbreaker. It’s watchable. Shiny. It just doesn’t linger. Like pudding, you make at 2 am, half-drunk and full of bad ideas — sweet in the moment, but already fading by breakfast.

Kill Your Darlings (and Maybe Your Mentor)

There’s an edge to this one that hints at something darker. It’s because of the way characters look at each other for too long. In how friendships shift like power plays. There’s a subplot involving a so-called ally who turns out to be something else entirely. It’s subtle but stings, like when someone uses intimacy as a tactic. We’ve all known that type.

F*** Marry Kill understands that sometimes the real danger isn’t the masked killer, but the person who smiles while setting you up. That mentor who wanted to help until they didn’t. That work friend who turned competitor overnight. The horror here is social, a high-stakes version of everyday betrayal.

Directed by: Laura Murphy

Written by: Ivan Diaz and others

Starring: Lucy Hale, Virginia Gardner, Brooke Nevin

Release Date: 7 March 2025 (US)

Distributor: Lionsgate.

Final Judgement

F*** Marry Kill isn’t scary in the traditional sense, but it is unsettling in how calculated it feels. You’ll spot the killer. You’ll guess the twist. But you’ll keep watching because it’s the kind of pop-thriller that scratches a very specific itch.

Buzzfeed Studios: All Polish, No Pulse?

Buzzfeed Studios produced F** Marry Kill*, and while they’ve dabbled in genre content before, their track record is hit or miss. On the one hand, they delivered the high-stakes thriller Fall (2022), a film that earned praise for its dizzying suspense and minimalism (review available on this site). On the other, their newer titles sometimes feel algorithmically assembled, sharp in theory, and flat in execution.

This one lands somewhere in the middle. It’s glossy and timely, but it doesn’t bite down.

Like rage-watching a reality show you swear you hate.

Mother of Movies Rating: Two out of five champagne flutes shattered in slow motion.