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

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

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.

Increasingly the location that the festival employs when they want to show Sundance attendees something a bit off the beaten ...

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

Of course we all know the tale of Cinderella, and by now we're probably familiar with the source material and how dark ...

Fairytales are inherently horror stories, and they’re at their best when they skew the world that the viewers are accustomed ...

Emilie Blichfeldt's The Ugly Stepsister twists Cinderella into a bloody horror story about the pain and despair of trying to ...

If the disheartening lack of creativity in Disney’s live-action remakes leaves one thinking these timeless stories have, in ...

Norwegian horror fable The Ugly Stepsister has debuted with a near-perfect score on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes. Fresh ...

The Ugly Stepsister will stream on Shudder in 2025. This review is based on a screening at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival.

The Ugly Stepsister will stream on Shudder in 2025 ... But the perspective writer-director Emilie Blichfeldt brings to her debut feature is fresh enough that it takes a few minutes to realize ...