Assassination Nation

Writer-director Sam Levinson’s black comedy-thriller film draws a parallel between the Salem witch trials and contemporary digital culture. The suburban town of Salem descends into violent chaos after a data hack exposes everyone’s secrets. Four young teenage girls (Odessa Young, Suki Waterhouse, Hari Nef, and Abra) turn into sword-wielding femme fatales to survive the catastrophe., The town of Salem descends into violent chaos after a data hack exposes everyone’s secrets. Four teenage girls decide to survive the catastrophe and turn the tables on their assailants by turning into sword and baseball bat-wielding femme fatales., After a targeted data hack destroys the lives of an entire small town, a group of social-media obsessed high school seniors must band together to avoid the wrath of the victims, and bring an end to the violence. As the search for the culprit grows more and more intense, the girls are forced to rely on more brutal tactics in a desperate effort to save themselves.