Emilie Blichfeldt’s debut 2025 body horror film The Ugly Stepsister features a scene that is particularly perturbing, due to its historical veracity. In it, the film’s main character Elvira eats a tapeworm egg in order to lose weight. The parasite, which inhabits certain animals and can infect a person who eats raw or under-cooked meat, adheres to the intestine and grows by feeding on its host’s meals. We’re talking about a flat, whitish worm that can measure six and a half to 39 feet, depending on whether it comes from a pig or a cow. Of course, what happens next is right out of a horror movie script.

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