Hello and welcome to episode 199 of Real Life Ghost Stories.

Anna

For two reasons, number one you guys know I hate a bullying storyline. I always find

they're don't really cheesely and rather than making me feel like I'm actually watching

somebody being bullied, I always feel like I'm watching what an adult thinks a teenager

being bullied is like and it is never quite the same thing. And as somebody who has worked

in schools for a long time like bullying isn't often what adults think it is. And secondly,

I thought is this film gonna end up being like, haha, she's fat because I don't want to

watch that either, you know. So I watched it actually with some friends, my friends

cast and Heidi who you would have heard previously on the podcast and Dave Keen as you guys

know long term, friend of the podcast. And we decided to sit down and watch this film.

And let me tell you, I was pleasantly surprised. You guys know that I'm not a gore person,

I'm not somebody who likes to watch Needless Gore. And this film, it was gory, there was

bits of it that I was like, but I didn't think for a second it was needless. And I thought

the bullying that was portrayed in the film was really accurate to what bullying can

be like. And I, it was difficult to watch. I was like, I'm not gonna lie, I was rooting

for the killer a lot of the time because I was like, kill those bitches, okay, they've

been really horrible to that girl. It's both an overt kind of bullying and really insidious

like it happens when adults aren't around, it happens on social media. They're really

mean about Sarah's weight, about her family, about just everything about her, it makes

her a target for bullying. And she says nothing. She says nothing to the adults in their

life. She has this really horrible event happened to her at the hands of her bullies. And

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