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

But in Norway, there is this tradition of watching a Czech version film version of Cinderella every Christmas ... one describes the sisters as beautiful on the outside and ugly on the inside ...

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

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 ...

“It was in the development process of one of these films that I was having a creative nap, and suddenly this little piece of the Brothers Grimm version of ‘Cinderella‘ came to me. I just ...

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, ...

Elvira is the ugly duckling of her family, which includes money-lusting widowed mother Rebekka (Ane Dahl Torp) and Elvira’s more fair-headed sister Ama (Flo Fagerli). They’ve lost their ...

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 ...

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 ...