Do Revenge trailer presents a pastel prep school plot between Camila Mendes and Maya Hawke
"Teenage girls—we're psychopaths," declares this "subverted Hitchcock-ian dark comedy"
What is the category for the kind of acerbic teen film that doesn’t fit in with the high school rom-com? Think Heathers, Cruel Intentions, Mean Girls…. Whatever those films have, Do Revenge wants it too, and with a shiny, Gen-Z coating. The influence of those movies is all over the trailer, from the absurd pastel prep school uniforms, to the casual game of croquet, to the observation that all teenage girls are “psychopaths.” And of course, there’s the plotting.
Perpetual high schooler Camila Mendes (Riverdale) plays Drea, the “Alpha it-girl” whose reputation takes a dive when her sex tape leaks to the school, presumably by her shady boyfriend Max (Austin Abrams). Maya Hawke (Stranger Things) plays Eleanor, an “awkward new transfer student” chagrined to discover one of her new classmates (Ava Capri) is her summer camp bully. After a chance encounter, these unlikely allies decide to team up and “do each other’s revenge.”