Hello. Hello and welcome to episode number 273 of real live ghost stories.

And to kick things off this week, I would like to say thanks to some of our newest Patreon subscribers.

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And our film review this week, our film review is The Ugly Stepsister. The Ugly Stepsister was released in 2025. It has 7.2 out of 10 on IMDB and 95% on Rotten Tomatoes.

The Ugly Stepsister follows Elvira as she battles against her gorgeous stepsister in a realm where beauty reigns supreme.

She resorts to extreme measures to captivate the prince amidst a ruthless competition for physical perfection. And look, we're sticking

with this theme of twisted fairy tales and I love it. So the grim fairy tales are well worth

investigating this film, The Ugly Stepsister, was inspired by the grim fairy tales are well worth investigating. This film, The Ugly Stepsister, was inspired by

the grim fairy tale version of Cinderella. And they're often not as gory as modern commentary would

suggest. So when we talk about grim fairy tales now, it's like, oh my God, they're really gory and

you know, they're vile and they're

full of death and murder. And, you know, some of them are. They weren't originally stories for kids.

And over time, I think the Grim brothers, they developed stories that were more child friendly.

But they're often just weird and kind of weird stuff happens in them.

So in the original version of Cinderella,

so her evil stepmother wants the two ugly stepdaughter or the ugly step-sisters

to be, you know,

to fool the prince when Cinderella loses her shoe.

And she, you know, gives the eldest one a knife

and tells her to cut off her toes.

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