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.

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

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

W ritten and directed by Emilie Blichfeldt, The Ugly Stepsister is a subversive body horror that twists the familiar tale of ...

Blichfedlt’s aesthetic ambition — hyper-pop prevails here — and a committed performance from Les Myren as the titular stepsister ... experiments with body horror also underscore Elvira ...

One horror film has been dubbed so ‘grotesque’ that a viewer threw up at the premiere. From The Substance to Nosferatu, ...

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

On the heels of Coralie Fargeat’s beauty-body horror The Substance, The Ugly Stepsister will likely find an audience when Shudder releases it this year. More from The Hollywood Reporter 'The Things ...

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

I’m the ugly stepsister. Not just because I wear [size 11] shoes ... Was the idea from the start to make it a horror film, and a body horror film at that? Around the same time I got the idea, I ...