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Nightmare Fuel / Promising Young Woman

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  • The entire premise of the movie could count as this, as Cassie tries to avenge her best friend's rape and catch would be rapists, the fact that the men could have come across an actual drunken woman instead of Cassie is disturbing.
  • Cassie tricking Madison into thinking that she's been raped. To make things worse, Cassie is perfectly willing to ignore her messages for days afterwards. She only relents and tells her the truth when Madison confronts her in person, visibly traumatized. Even if she was a victim-blaming Jerkass, Cassie weaponizing Madison's fear and vulnerability like that borders on Disproportionate Retribution.
    • Cassie goes one step further with her next target; making the dean think her own daughter is about to be raped. The dean is understandably horrified by this and, unlike with Madison, it's made clear that Cassie is enjoying the whole thing. Granted, she knows that the dean's daughter is safe, but still...
  • Cassie's death by suffocation by Al is chilling, as is their confrontation prior to it. To add on, Emerald Fennell specifically timed the suffocation scene to be two and a half minutes, the time her father-in-law says it takes to smother someone.

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