The Ugly Stepsister” — the Cinderella-inspired horror that emerged from Sundance as one of the festival’s buzziest titles — ...

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.

The Ugly Stepsister” works best when it’s not just merely tweaking but thoroughly elaborating on its source material.

Fairytales are inherently horror stories, and they’re at their best when they skew the world that the viewers are accustomed to the most. Shudder’s The Ugly Stepsister offers up a body horror-fueled ...

W ritten and directed by Emilie Blichfeldt, The Ugly Stepsister is a subversive body horror that twists the familiar tale of Cinderella and gives us a psychological beauty-is-pain ...

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 ...

Films are made over many days, but some days are more memorable, and important, than others. Imagine yourself in ten years looking back on this production. What day from your film’s development, ...

In her Sundance-bowing feature, the director Emilie Blichfeldt reimagines the fairytale ... selling solutions to invented problems. When The Ugly Stepsister retreads these well-appreciated facts ...

Of course we all know the tale of Cinderella, and by now we're probably familiar with the source material and how dark Grimm's fairy tales actually are. These stories have been given the horror ...

It all started with Norwegian filmmaker Emilie Blichfeldt envisioning ... on the classic lore was the first step of Blichfeldt’s “The Ugly Stepsister,” which is debuting at Sundance on ...

thoughtfully executed fairytale nightmare-comedy like Emilie Blichfeldt’s The Ugly Stepsister. Set in a fantastical alternate 1900s, The Ugly Stepsister shifts the spotlight to the familiar ...