Review: Emilie Blichfeldt's feminist body horror fairytale 'The Ugly Stepsister' isn't more than skin deep, but it's ...

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

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

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

Norwegian director Emilie Blichfeldt’s The Ugly Stepsister underlines the base grotesquerie of the original fairy tale.

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

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

“The Ugly Stepsister” has its Sundance debut in the middle of a rousing awards campaign for Coralie Fargeat’s “The Substance,” another body horror film that satirizes cosmetic surgery ...

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

Beauty is brutal in Shudder's The Ugly Stepsister, and Emilie Blichfeldt understands exactly how to capture that viscerally.

The horror flick The Ugly Stepsister has made a strong debut, boasting near-perfect reviews on Rotten Tomatoes. However, fans ...

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.