The Norwegian comedy horror film, The Ugly Stepsister, had its world premiere in the Midnight Section of the 2025 Sundance ...

Norwegian director Emilie Blichfeldt on her reframing the Cinderella story as body horror about the bloody pursuit of beauty.

Of course we all know the tale of Cinderella, and by now we're probably familiar with the source material and how dark ...

Fairytales are inherently horror stories, and they’re at their best when they skew the world that the viewers are accustomed ...

The Ugly Stepsister,' a nightmarish fairytale reimagining, serves Sam Raimi-levels of mayhem with its critique of brutal ...

In everything from the often incongruous score to the staging and sudden zooms, which results in some of the most unique and strange framings of genitals you’ll ever see, “The Ugly Stepsister ...

Companies prey on insecurities, selling solutions to invented problems. When The Ugly Stepsister retreads these well-appreciated facts through visual gags or obvious dialogue, the effect can be dull.

This dark spin on the classic lore was the first step of Blichfeldt’s “The Ugly Stepsister,” which is debuting at Sundance on Thursday via Shudder. Blichfeldt, who wrote and directed the ...

The family-friendly studio’s more-wholesome-than-horrifying approach gives Norwegian writer-director Emilie Blichfeldt plenty of room to push back with “The Ugly Stepsister,” a deliciously ...

“There’s only one Cinderella. The rest of us are the ugly stepsister, struggling to fit into the shoe.” What version of Cinderella did you grow up on? I grew up in a house in the north of ...

The Ugly Stepsister will stream on Shudder in 2025. This review is based on a screening at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival. Discovering the violent origins of classic fairy tales is a rite of ...

The Ugly Stepsister takes viewers to an enchanted kingdom in which impossible standards of female beauty lead to graphic violence and gross-out gore, with Lea Myren playing the titular character ...