Cinderella's Revenge

I remember around 40 years ago when angry parents protested against a slasher flick called silent night deadly night cause that film used santa as a serial killer so people thought that as an insult and protested as nothing is sacred anymore ?

I wonder what they are thinking today when legend kid icons like cinderella winnie and snowhite (snowhite had also a horror version years ago) are having their own horror versions.

When this madness with be stoped ?

When those $$$ makers will understand that we shouldn't mess with what made our kids happy in last 100 years or so ?

So what's next ?

Popeye as a serial killer ?

How about donald and mickey and goofy ?

Come on u beeps u can turn them too in to killers.

I'm sure your kids will love it.

How low this world will continue to go ?

Is there a bottom to the barell ?

This isn't the useal take of the cinderella we are used to seeing but i think it a intersting movie because i feel the movie show us what would happen if cinderella couldn't take the torture and abuse from her step-mom and her step-sisters anymore and what would she do when she snappeds also i think it shows us just how cruel and heartless her step-mom and step-sisters can be and how far they would go with their mistreatment of cinderella.

Well, if you enjoy the original "Cinderella" tale from Charles Perrault, then chances are that you might also enjoy this reinterpretation from writer Tom Jolliffe, provided you have a thing for homicidal maniac versions of peaceful characters.

I had the opportunity to sit down and watch the 2024 movie "Cinderella's Revenge", and opted to do so since it was a movie that I hadn't even heard about. And given it supposedly being a horror movie, of course I had to check it out. I have to admit, though, that I harbored zero expectations to it, given it's title.

Needless to say that this 2024 take on the story certainly is a lot more dark and sinister than the original story.

Of the entire cast ensemble in the movie, I was only familiar with Natasha Henstridge, and she had but a support role in the movie. It should be noted, however, that the acting performances in the movie were fair enough.

The effects in the movie were adequate. You're not in for anything grand, but the effects do work as intended. There are some nice enough scenes with mayhem and blood to please us gorehounds.

Watchable for what it was, director Andy Edwards's wasn't exactly an outstanding or memorable horror experience. I have to admit that turning the Cinderella character into a homicidal slasher just was a bit of an odd thing. So in a way, I suppose that this was a revenge movie, basically.

My rating of "Cinderella's Revenge" lands on a four out of ten stars.

For the most part, a rather faithful rendering of the story. The two stepsisters certainly are horrid, and the stepmother really treated Cinderella terribly. The fairy godmother enters with a mix of old and new. She can get Cinderella clothing from the 12th Century or Hammer pants. But sometimes the jokes seem to think they are too clever, and falls flat. The 'carriage' arrives to take her to the ball, and she asks where are the horses? She is told it is electric, and Elon will drive her. The license plate reads PUMPKIN. When she is outfitted for the ball, the names of prominent fashion designers are used. The acting in some scenes seems off. Whether it is the skill or the directing, it doesn't fit. When we get to the more gruesome parts of the movie, Cinderella simply does not seem physically up to the part, and there are other scenes of just terrible acting. In night scenes, the estate houses are simply lit too brightly for just candles, and in one critical scene, there is a mismatch of the action to the sound.

Following her husband's death, a stepmother to his benevolent daughter lords over the incident as a means of keeping the girl in her employ and sets about trying to push her stepsisters into a ploy to win the Prince's heart forcing the distraught woman to resort to murder to right the wrongs.

Overall, this was a fairly fun and likable adaptation of the story. One of the finer aspects on display is the way that this one goes about getting the necessary setup in order so that the eventual rampage will feel earned and valuable. The initial setpiece focusing on the erroneous setup of the father and getting her left alone with the stepfamily gets this off to a great start while starting the series of setpieces focusing on the treatment that the family puts her through as it speed-runs through the familiar storyline. With the experience given just a brief bit of lip-service about the harsh orders, excessive workload, and violent outbursts against her for disobeying, there's enough about who she is that gives the experience a strong starting point heading into the fateful Ball. With the Ball serving to help introduce everything that happens afterward with her showing up in extravagant evening gown and slippers which was forbidden by the stepmother and sisters, and wooing the prince, that forces the impetus to continue the treatment against her, including even more cruel and barbaric activities such as whipping or psychological torments. Finally igniting and serving as the impetus to seek bloody revenge on everyone, there's a lot of fun to be had in the second half with the masked girl going around the house knocking off the family for their transgressions against her in brutal fashion, as the ambush sequences and brawling come across fairly well. With some great action and bloody kills on display, there's a lot to like here, although there are some big issues holding it back. One of the main drawbacks with this one is the need to speed run this one to get through the familiar story at a frantic clip. Hitting all the familiar notes from the story involving the stepmother taking control of the family, the cruel treatment of the main girl by the stepsisters and getting to the ball despite their strict instructions not to attend, this manages to tell a majority of the story in the first twenty minutes of the film rather than set the action at a more measured clip than anything else with the way this comes together being quite hard to buy into due to the rushed nature it goes through the main story. There's also the expected low-budget nature of this one which manages to include all manner of familiar and easy-to-spot features, from flimsy make-up, illogical props, obvious locations, and other such fare that highlight this one's cheap origins, and with the expected change in treatment of the characters from the familiar story might be what end up lowering this one overall.

Rated Unrated/R: Graphic Violence, Graphic Language, Brief Nudity, and a sex scene.