The Petrifying Principal
“Prin-ci-pal.” It’s right there in the word. Your school’s leader is supposed to be someone you can trust like a friend. However, the kids in Matilda were under the rule of the treacherous Miss Trunchbull. Forget ruling with an iron fist; this headmistress had an iron maiden for students unlucky enough to land on her bad side.
Matilda’s home life was a dumpster fire, and her school life wasn’t significantly better with the threat of big bully Trunchbull and her cruel and unusual punishments. This woman swung a girl around by her pigtails, force-fed a boy enough chocolate cake to feed a horse, and locked children in her medieval contraption dubbed “The Chokey.” This movie made regular ‘ol detention look like paradise.