Sinners currently beats The Ugly Stepsister 60–40
Coogler's genre collision edges the art-house grotesque — scale tells early.
The Verdict Class of 2025
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Sinners arrives with the most ambition of any horror film this year: Coogler fusing a period gangster picture, a vampire siege, and a love letter to the blues, anchored by Michael B. Jordan in a dual role. The Ugly Stepsister is the more disciplined, more unsettling object — Blichfeldt's prosthetic body-horror lands every cringe it aims for and never overreaches. The narrow edge goes to spectacle over precision, which is usually how it breaks when a maximalist film meets a miniaturist one. Both are first-time-feature swings worth taking seriously. What's being measured this early is appetite for scale, not a final accounting of which film is better made. Too soon to read it as more than that.
The Numbers
| Sinners | The Ugly Stepsister | |
|---|---|---|
| Head-to-Head | 60% | 40% |
| Overall Win Rate | 60% | 46% |
| Championships | 14 | 6 |
| Budget | $90M | $4M |
| Box Office | $369M | $5M |
Where This Matchup Sits
Out of 38 Horror films on the platform, Sinners at #8 and The Ugly Stepsister is in the lower half.
Looking at shared opponents, 28 Years Later draws a line between them: Sinners dominates that matchup, but The Ugly Stepsister comes out on the wrong side.
Sinners earned $369M on a $90M budget while The Ugly Stepsister made $5M on $4M. The bracket result tracks the money — Sinners wins both.
The decision time splits by film: 1.8s to vote for Sinners, 4.4s to vote for The Ugly Stepsister. People don't reach for both films the same way.
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