Wishing Stairs

[lesbiangalatea]

Taking place at a Korean all-girls boarding school, this movie feels like a beautiful nightmare with significant parallels to both the story of the Giselle ballet, the lead role of which is an important plot point, and the Monkey’s Paw short story. In short, think of young sapphic love becoming something poisonous and terrifying.

Watch if you like:

• Horror stories set in boarding schools
• Ballet horror
• Toxic yuri from beyond the grave
• Stories that deal with the horrors of fatphobia and bullying
• Tragic lesbian horror
• Slower paced movies that say a lot through recurring motifs and themes

Don’t watch if you:

• Want something 100% explicitly sapphic– though very heavily implied, there is no actual kissing or anything between the main duo
• Prefer horror movies with lots of action, thrills, and jumpscares; though it has some sequences that I watched with my heart in my throat, it is no fast-paced slasher
• Want a hopeful story about young love
• Prefer movies that say things outright rather than implying them or using visual storytelling to convey their meaning

Content warnings include, but as I don’t trust my fickle memory, may not be limited to:

(POSSIBLE SPOILERS BELOW!!

• Vomiting
• Blood
• Bullying
• Toxic relationships
• Fatphobia
• Jumpscares (pretty sure there are at least some)
• Suicide
• Verbal abuse