“The Ugly Stepsister” — the Cinderella-inspired horror that emerged from Sundance as one of the festival’s buzziest titles — ...

Norwegian director Emilie Blichfeldt on her reframing the Cinderella story as body horror about the bloody pursuit of beauty. "There's only one Cinderella, the rest of us are the ugly stepsister.

T he iconic fairy tale of Cinderella is getting a wild twist with the Sundance hit, The Ugly Stepsister. The movie hails from ...

The Ugly Stepsister” works best when it’s not just merely tweaking but thoroughly elaborating on its source material.

W ritten and directed by Emilie Blichfeldt, The Ugly Stepsister is a subversive body horror that twists the familiar tale of Cinderella and gives us a psychological beauty-is-pain ...

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 ...

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, ...

Of course we all know the tale of Cinderella, and by now we're probably familiar with the source material and how dark Grimm's fairy tales actually are. These stories have been given the horror ...

In her Sundance-bowing feature, the director Emilie Blichfeldt reimagines the fairytale ... selling solutions to invented problems. When The Ugly Stepsister retreads these well-appreciated facts ...

However, wait until you see a needle coming right up to the edge of a character’s eye in a discomforting POV closeup and then you’ll begin to get a sense of what Blichfeldt and her ...

thoughtfully executed fairytale nightmare-comedy like Emilie Blichfeldt’s The Ugly Stepsister. Set in a fantastical alternate 1900s, The Ugly Stepsister shifts the spotlight to the familiar ...