Ember's analysis
- Pacing
- Brisk
- Intensity
- Moderate
- Complexity
- Layered
- Violence
- None
- uneasy
- witty
- surreal
- short film showcase
- classroom discussion
What sets it apart
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Angel moves between everyday teaching and a web page populated by strange student videos.
Students tease Angel through videos on a social-media-like web page.
The premise mixes comedy with an unfamiliar digital universe and adolescent bullying.
An enthusiastic high school teacher becomes the target of his students' online behavior.
Films like Holestepper, and why
Eighth Grade
shared blend of internet-mediated identity, adolescent social cruelty, and uneasy comedy-drama
Cyberbully
shared focus on teenage peer pressure, online humiliation, and compassionate coming-of-age drama
Searching
shared collision of ordinary school life with an unsettling digital social world
Movie Details
- Director
- Sergio Fernández Muñoz
- Release Date
- 2018-07-31
- Runtime
- 18 min
- Rating
- 10.0 / 10 (1)
Cast
- Oswaldo Salas
- Paulina Bazán
- Adrian du Bois
Common questions
- What is Holestepper about?
- An enthusiastic teacher is pulled into a strange online world where his students’ taunting turns school life into a disorienting digital ordeal.
- What is Holestepper like to watch?
- Ember's analysis rates the pacing of Holestepper as brisk, its intensity as moderate and its storytelling as layered.
- Is Holestepper violent?
- No — Ember's analysis finds no violence in Holestepper.
- Which films are like Holestepper?
- Films with a similar feel include Eighth Grade, Cyberbully, and Searching.
- How long is Holestepper?
- Holestepper runs 18 minutes.
