When you hear the term Femme Fatale yo think of Rita Hayworth, Sharon Stone, Barbara Stanwyck, Lauren Bacal, and Lana Turner. These women were sophisticated characters, mysterious and seductive.

It is hard to picture really young girls playing a Femme Fatale, but after seeing the film Thoroughbreds I think is possible to label Amanda and Lily.

In a suburban Connecticut upper-class family, Lily (Anya Taylor-Joy) lives with her mom Karen (Kaili Vernoff) and her stepdad Mark (Paul Sparks) a wealthy and abusive man, whom she hates.

Amanda (Olivia Cooke) been friends with Lily for years, but then grew apart after the death of Lily's dad. Amanda is a complex person who suffers from an unspecified mental disorder making her emotionless. She was also charged with animal cruelty after euthanized her crippled horse with a knife. One day Karen fixed a paid meeting between Lily and Amanda pretending to be a tutoring session, Amanda figured out it is paid very quickly. Later they meet by mutual agreement. The friendship grows back but with one single interest, Amanda proposes to Lily to kill Mark.

Cory Finley makes his directorial debut with this film, Thoroughbreds borrow from the great Alfred Hitchcock the complexity two characters planning a murder but in a young kids upper-class environment. The film is really well made, great performances and carefully directed to deliver an intense thriller. It reminds me of the early days for director Ryan Johnson and his film Brick, which is a film noir murder mystery in a high school.