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

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.

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.

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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 ...

By Lovia Gyarkye Arts & Culture Critic Everyone knows Cinderella’s story ... s appropriately gruesome experiments with body horror also underscore Elvira’s growing desperation to be beautiful.

Sundance: Norwegian director Emilie Blichfeldt swaps tapeworms for silkworms in a gory Grimm Brothers update about the body-horror extremes of the pursuit of beauty. It’s tough times out there ...

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