Follows best friends Sophie and Agatha who discover where fairytale legacies go to school: the School for Good and Evil, where ordinary boys and girls are trained to be fairy tale heroes and villains. With her princess ambitions, Sophie knows she’ll be picked for the School for Good and join the ranks of past students like Cinderella and Snow White. Meanwhile, Agatha, with her grim aesthetic and wicked cat, seems a natural fit for the villains in the School for Evil. Yet soon the girls find their fortunes reversed: Sophie is dropped into the School for Evil, Agatha into the School for Good. But what if the mistake is the first clue to discovering who Sophie and Agatha really are? Their friendship will be put to the test in this thrilling and comedic story where the only way out of a fairy tale is to live through one.
This movie contains 26 potentially triggering events.
SPOILER ALERT!!!
Rafal gaslights Sophie throughout the course of the movie, as well as other forms of abuse. He says that everyone has abandoned her, and shows an out of context clip of Agatha refusing to admit she thought Sophie was pure good. Not all of it was gaslighting per say but it was very manipulative stuff that could be triggering.
There is a traumatic scene involving a bird-like creature.
SPOILERS: The bird-like creature is Gregor. He does not get any kind of justice in this movie and it is heartbreaking.
Sophie is handcuffed to a chair in a dungeon while her hair is forcibly cut. At other times, characters use magic to restrain people’s hands or to otherwise prevent them from moving.
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At the end of the movie, the schools collapse, with the students still inside. Shorty after, the curse that caused it is reversed and the students are fine. The scene does show the building falling on them though.
Two people have teeth (a single tooth per person) fall out because they're evil and thus "ugly". It's not really shown aside from the teeth coming out of their mouths, but you hear gross sounds. Also a person has a dragon tattoo that can peal off their body and turn into a real dragon. It's not really gruesome, but it can feel kinda uncomfortable to watch if that's something that bothers you.
Is not shown, but hanging is constantly threatened. Specifically “witches” are threatened (in quotes bc it’s used in a derogatory manner towards someone who isn’t).
YES. Very triggering imo. The characters from both schools have a ceremony to get their magic, which involves being stabbed in the finger with a needle. The students from the school for good don’t feel any pain, but those from the other school feel everything. A lot of them are in obvious pain, and we see the needle go all the way through the finger in some cases. This happens probably a dozen times in the scene.
The doom room is clearly some kind of torture chamber. There are lots of weapons around the room and a chair with restraints in the middle. The worst we see in the movie is Sophie getting her hair cut (which meant a lot to her) while cuffed to the chair, but the room is implied to be a space for much worse.
Near the beginning of the movie, Rafal falls off a cliff in a very Lion-King-reminiscent way. Rhian looks over the edge to see his body on the rocks below.
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It’s revealed he didn’t actually die at the end, but the scene still has the impact as though he had fallen to his death.
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There's some antisemetic imagery — After Sophie talks to Rafal in the mirror and finds a pimple, she slowly starts to become "ugly." The next scene she's in, her nose is noticeably more hooked, and she eventually turns into a stereotypical "hag/witch" with an exaggerated hooked nose.
It lasts for a while, but when Sophie switches the good and evil schools' uniforms, her apprarance returns to normal.
I don't understand why people say no to this when it opens with a fight seen between two twin brothers who are Black, and one literally kills the other?
*SPOILERS* Viewers think one brother dies by falling to his death, but it is revealed later that he survived to stab his brother in the back and assume his identity. No matter how you cut it, in the very first scene there is the death of a Black man.
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Rafal wants to marry Sophie, despise the (possibly hundreds of years) age difference. For reference, his ex was Sophie’s teacher. And THAT was a big age gap too.
My comments are about the movie, i’ve never read the book! <3