The Ugly Stepsister
Movie • 2025 • Horror
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In a fairy-tale kingdom where beauty is a brutal business, Elvira battles to compete with her incredibly beautiful stepsister, and she will go to any length to catch the prince’s eye.
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Does someone attempt suicide?
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Abuse
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Is a woman brutalized for spectacle?
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woodwool
Sort of. The plot of the movie is entirely about Cinderella's ugly stepsister's increasingly desperate journey to achieving beauty and it never shies away from the violent nature of these methods. It is a movie about the cruelty of female beauty standards that makes its point in an intensely graphic way.
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Are there abusive parents?
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woodwool
It's a Cinderella story, so of course there is The Evil Stepmother. In this version she is abusive to both her own and her stepdaughter.
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Sort of. In this retelling of Cinderella, the stepmother is very much being abusive towards her own daughter as well, but this does not stop the stepsister from participating in the Cinderella character's abuse.
Sort of. In this retelling of Cinderella, the stepmother is very much being abusive towards her own daughter as well, but this does not stop the stepsister from participating in the Cinderella character's abuse.
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woodwool
Cocaine and (presumably) morphine. While the movie is set in a fairytale setting, the drug use very much draws on what one might expect from a Victorian setting.
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Birds are killed in hunting scene.
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Is there a dead animal?
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Birds are killed in hunting scene.
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Are there bugs?
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Many kinds of worms and maggots throughout. The buzzing of flies is heard in several scenes.
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woodwool
Groping, forced kissing, and general predatory behavior from men.
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Is someone drugged?
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woodwool
With cocaine as an anesthetic and what I presume to be morphine as a sedative.
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Is someone restrained?
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Physically restrained during a surgical procedure. The character is awake and aware of what is happening.
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Several girls are slapped by their (step)mother.
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Sexual harassment, groping, forced kissing, and a rape joke made by a minor character. (not a character who is a minor)
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Is there eye mutilation?
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A character has eyelashes sewn onto her eyelids with needle and thread. Plenty of very graphic closeups of the procedure. Later you see her eyes puffed and bruised as they're healing.
A character has eyelashes sewn onto her eyelids with needle and thread. Plenty of very graphic closeups of the procedure. Later you see her eyes puffed and bruised as they're healing.
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Is there excessive gore?
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woodwool
Many graphic scenes throughout including violent cosmetic procedures (involving tools such as a chisel and hammer or needle and thread) and mutilation.
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Is there body horror?
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woodwool
Pretty much all of the horror in this movie is horrible things being done to the body in the name of beauty, including violent cosmetic procedures and tapeworms.
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Is there finger/toe mutilation?
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woodwool
Very graphic toe mutilation. If you are familiar with the original Cinderella fairytale you will know.
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Are any teeth damaged?
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Teeth knocked into the gums.
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Does someone break a bone?
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Broken nose.
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Does someone fall down stairs?
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Long, continuous fall down a staircase with subsequent injuries.
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Does someone become unconscious?
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A character passes out briefly and falls to the ground. Another character becomes unconscious under sedation by drugs.
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A father dies in front of his daughter.
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Start of movie the father sprays some blood but its obvious to see coming.
1:20:40 it's obvious to see coming and SPOILER isn't vomit but something she swallows earlier in the movie. When you hear dance music again you are fine
1:39:20 when she takes rhe antidote, very obvious she is going to vomit. It does seem more like blood. Happens twice and then the antidote starts to take effect. A lot of gargling etc and the things coming from her mouth so be careful
1:20:40 it's obvious to see coming and SPOILER isn't vomit but something she swallows earlier in the movie. When you hear dance music again you are fine
1:39:20 when she takes rhe antidote, very obvious she is going to vomit. It does seem more like blood. Happens twice and then the antidote starts to take effect. A lot of gargling etc and the things coming from her mouth so be careful
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Does someone spit?
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woodwool
On the ground and in someone's face.
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woodwool
Menstrual blood on bed sheets.
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Does someone have an eating disorder?
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Someone swallows a tapeworm egg in order to lose weight. This has the expected consequences, one of which is hair loss, which could be potentially very triggering.
Someone swallows a tapeworm egg in order to lose weight. This has the expected consequences, one of which is hair loss, which could be potentially very triggering.
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Is there body dysmorphia?
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woodwool
The entire plot of the movie hinges on the main character being told and subsequently believing she is ugly. There are several scenes of her expressing disgust towards her own body.
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Self-mutilation with a butcher knife.
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Are there flashing lights or images?
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Yes, in two consecutive scenes. First, just before the ‘eyelid surgery’ the screen flickers to replicate Elvira quickly blinking. Next there is an extended night time sequence with recurring bright lightning flashes through the windows, some of it sustained but mostly rapid/strobe-like.
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Is there screaming?
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woodwool
A lot, most of it in pain.
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Is there obscene language/gestures?
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woodwool
A lot of raunchy talk and gestures by characters throughout.
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Is there a large age gap?
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The character's ages are not explicitly stated, but the mother engages sexually with a character presumed to be around her 18 year old daughter's age.
The character's ages are not explicitly stated, but the mother engages sexually with a character presumed to be around her 18 year old daughter's age.
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Are there incestuous relationships?
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Is there sexual content?
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woodwool
Several sexual scenes throughout, some of which are VERY graphic. Also a lot of crude sexual language.
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Are there nude scenes?
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Yea, multiple. Some are pretty graphic and show closeups of genitals and sexual activity.
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Does it have a sad ending?
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Feisar
Depends on your interpretation, I’d say “No”.
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The siblings get away in the end. To me felt like they felt freedom for the first time.
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The siblings get away in the end. To me felt like they felt freedom for the first time.
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Violence
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woodwool
Lots of it throughout. This is not a film for the squeamish.
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