Rebekka (Anna Dahl Torp), left, fits her daughter Elvira (Lea Myren) with a medieval nose job protector in "The Ugly Stepsister," which premiered Thursday at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival.

PARK CITY, UTAH Jan. 24 (UPI) --The Ugly Stepsister, which premiered Thursday at the Sundance Film Festival, embraces the darkness of the original Cinderella ... the older sister of Flo Fagerli's ...

At Sundance this year, it is writer/director Emilie Blichfeldt’s feature debut “The Ugly Stepsister,” which is like if Fargeat’s film got smashed together with Cinderella, a bit of Yorgos Lanthimos’ ...

“The Ugly Stepsister” just premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. Turns out beauty really is pain. Entertainment Critic Entertainment Critic [email protected] Got a ti ...

If you go to enough film festivals and seek out the horror offerings therein, there’s a pretty good chance you’ll come across some rather extreme new visions. Far from the more mainstream ...

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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 ...

The Ugly Stepsister is not afraid to dive into the unflinchingly gruesome while packing an impressive sense of empathy. By flipping the story’s central perspective from Cinderella to a stepsister, ...

PARK CITY, UTAH Jan. 24 (UPI) --The Ugly ... Cinderella fairy tale. The Norwegian film ramps up the most disturbing elements of the Brothers Grimm version of the story, with the resources of modern ...

Photo: Marcel Zyskind The film begins with wide-eyed Elvira (Lea Myren) and her younger sister Alma ... to identify with Cinderella, but the truth is that we’re all ugly stepsisters at heart.

A new body horror movie inspired by Cinderella has debuted at Sundance, and it's already made one person throw up. The Ugly Stepsister, written and directed by Emilie Blichfeldt, focuses on Lea ...