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 ...

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

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

In her Sundance-bowing feature, the director Emilie Blichfeldt reimagines the fairytale from the perspective of a stepsister ...

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 Norwegian film "The Ugly Stepsister," which premiered Thursday at the Sundance Film Festival, ramps up the darkness of ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

(Have a look at those horror-ceiling-shattering Oscar nominations, for one.) “The Ugly Stepsister” begins with the tragically forced communion of two families as the brace-faced, ringleted ...