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‘The Ugly Stepsister’ Review: Stylish Norwegian Debut Takes ‘Cinderella’ for a Body-Horror Spin
In her Sundance-bowing feature, the director Emilie Blichfeldt reimagines the fairytale from the perspective of a stepsister desperate for beauty.
‘The Ugly Stepsister’ Review: Eat Your Heart Out Cinderella, This Shudder Horror Is the Bloody Belle of the Ball
Emilie Blichfeldt's feature debut "The Ugly Stepsister" is a grim and gruesome affair not for the faint of heart
‘The Ugly Stepsister’ Review: Beauty Is Pain in a Squeamish Cinderella Story for the Feminist Body Horror Age
Review: Emilie Blichfeldt's feminist body horror fairytale 'The Ugly Stepsister' isn't more than skin deep, but it's squeamish enough that way.
Sundance movie review: 'Ugly Stepsister' is gruesome twist on Cinderella
The Norwegian film "The Ugly Stepsister," which premiered Thursday at the Sundance Film Festival, ramps up the darkness of the original "Cinderella" fairy tale.
‘The Ugly Stepsister’ Review: Scary Scandinavian Cinderella Story Puts the ‘Boo’ in ‘Bibbidi Bobbidi’
Director Emilie Blichfeldt skewers unfair female beauty standards in a horrific spin on the fairy tale, presented here from the rival's perspective.
‘The Ugly Stepsister’ Suffers Body Horror for Beauty in Twisted Fairytale Retelling [Sundance 2025 Review]
The Ugly Stepsister,' a nightmarish fairytale reimagining, serves Sam Raimi-levels of mayhem with its critique of brutal beauty standards.
REVIEW: The Ugly Stepsister
Fairytales are inherently horror stories, and they’re at their best when they skew the world that the viewers are accustomed to the most. Shudder’s The Ugly Stepsister offers up a body horror-fueled wicked twist to the classic Cinderella story that we’ve all come to know.
‘The Ugly Stepsister’ Remixes Cinderella With Nauseating Body Horror for a Biting Commentary on Beauty Standards — Sundance
Director Emilie Blichfeldt breaks down her dreamy horror fable "The Ugly Stepsister," which is debuting at Sundance on Thursday.
Sundance: “The Ugly Stepsister” Twisted Body Horror Fairy Tale [Review]
The Midnight section of the Sundance Film Festival is usual ripe with horror and thriller gems that endure throughout the year upon their release. Some of
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The Ugly Stepsister: Release details, plot, cast and more about the upcoming Norwegian comedy horror film
The Norwegian comedy horror film, The Ugly Stepsister, had its world premiere in the Midnight Section of the 2025 Sundance ...
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Sundance 2025: The Ugly Stepsister, By Design
Increasingly the location that the festival employs when they want to show Sundance attendees something a bit off the beaten ...
The Ugly Stepsister Review
The Ugly Stepsister’s torture-porn take on a classic fairy tale is told from a teenager’s point of view, but the grotesque ...
Cinderella Was Always a Body-Horror Story
Norwegian director Emilie Blichfeldt’s The Ugly Stepsister underlines the base grotesquerie of the original fairy tale.
A "difficult-to-watch" new body horror movie featuring "barbaric" cosmetic surgery has already made one person throw up at Sundance
A new body horror movie inspired by Cinderella has debuted at Sundance, and it's already made one person throw up. The Ugly ...
Who Knew a Feminist Reimagining of ‘Cinderella’ Could Be So Gory
PARK CITY, Utah—Reimagining Cinderella as a horror-comedy about the misery women endure to be attractive in the hopes of ...
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“A Symbol of Hope and Inspiration for Future Generations”| Emilie Blichfeldt, The Ugly Stepsister
Films are made over many days, but some days are more memorable, and important, than others. Imagine yourself in ten years looking back on this production. What day from your film’s development, ...