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

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

T he iconic fairy tale of Cinderella is getting a wild twist with the Sundance hit, The Ugly Stepsister. The movie hails from ...

We feel the sadness, too. Maybe once upon a time we were supposed to identify with Cinderella, but the truth is that we’re all ugly stepsisters at heart. But what makes this picture so ...

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.

Cinderella herself is also afforded more agency ... campaign for Coralie Fargeat’s “The Substance,” another body horror film that satirizes cosmetic surgery and beauty standards.

Norwegian writer-director Emilie Blichfeldt’s grotesque reworking of the Cinderella story creates a world where beauty is pain for some women, but life is pain for all of them.

Film goers will be disappointed to learn that it'll be some time yet before it is launched with the films release currently scheduled for March, kicking off in Norway first but later available for ...

If you go to enough film festivals and seek out the horror offerings therein ... those who are familiar with the broad strokes of its Cinderella story, but delivers when it comes to the ...