'Sissy'.

Hannah Barlow and Kane Senes on the joy of genre mashing with ‘Sissy’

When Kane Senes was at film school, one of his teachers gave him a piece of advice: Make a horror film, as it offers one of the best chances to build your career.

It took Senes three features to heed that advice, having made first made a Western and then a mumblecore road film, but he observes now there may be something to it.

Senes’ slasher comedy Sissy – co-written and co-directed with his partner in filmmaking and in life, Hannah Barlow, who also stars – debuted at SXSW to impressive revie...