Bring Her Back currently beats The Ugly Stepsister 63–37
Talk to Me's successors edge out the fairy-tale reimagining.
The Verdict Class of 2025
The Philippou brothers' debut proved they could build horror from objects and rituals rather than jumpscares — the embalmed hand in Talk to Me was both the film's MacGuffin and its formal principle, every scare derived from physical contact with something you shouldn't touch. Bring Her Back carries that principle forward. Blichfeldt's Ugly Stepsister is working with a different kind of horror — the body horror of not fitting the beauty standard, the violence of a fairy tale told from the wrong perspective. Both are inventive 2025 horror films. The lead says object-horror converts more reliably than conceptual-horror in a direct matchup.
The Numbers
| Bring Her Back | The Ugly Stepsister | |
|---|---|---|
| Head-to-Head | 63% | 37% |
| Overall Win Rate | 56% | 40% |
| Championships | 12 | 6 |
| Avg Decision | 2.1s | 2.3s |
| Budget | $15M | $4M |
| Box Office | $39M | $5M |
Where This Matchup Sits
BingeBracket tracks 61 films from the 2020s — Bring Her Back is in the top quarter, The Ugly Stepsister is in the lower half.
Against other opponents on BingeBracket, both films share a weakness: neither can beat 28 Years Later.
The championship record tells the same story: Bring Her Back has 12 tournament wins to The Ugly Stepsister's 6. The pedigree gap matches the head-to-head gap.
Bring Her Back earned $39M on a $15M budget while The Ugly Stepsister made $5M on $4M. The bracket result tracks the money — Bring Her Back wins both.
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