EXCLUSIVE: Thea Sofie Loch Næss (The Ugly Stepsister) is set to topline CRCL9, a psychological thriller from writer-director ...

If you haven’t had the pleasure of dipping your toes into the buzzy Swedish horror film The Ugly Stepsister, let me tell it’s ...

Emilie Blichfeldt, Sundance Film Festival 2025, 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 ...

The Ugly Stepsister by Norway’s Emilie Blichfeldt has won the top prize and audience award at the 29th Bucheon International ...

Retellings, where villains take over the plot, are my favorite kind of reimagination. Enough of Cinderella’s perfect foot and ...

“The Ugly Stepsister” is the newest Cinderella adaptation that takes a body horror twist on the classic story. While the film successfully reworked the original, the filmmaker, Emilie Blichfeldt, ...

The Ugly Stepsister 2025, R, 105 min. Directed by Emilie Blichfeldt. Starring Lea Myren, Thea Sofie Loch Næss, Ane Dahl Torp, Flo Fagerli, Isac Calmroth.

Fairy tales in their earliest conception were equally useful as both forms of entertainment and to pass on moral lessons and reinforce cultural mores. The Ugly Stepsister, a feminist “beauty horror” ...