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

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

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

The Norwegian film "The Ugly Stepsister," which premiered Thursday at the Sundance Film Festival, ramps up the darkness of the original "Cinderella" fairy tale.

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." ...

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

“It was in the development process of one of these films that I was having a creative nap, and suddenly this little piece of the Brothers Grimm version of ‘Cinderella‘ came to me. I just ...

The Ugly Stepsister dissects the Cinderella narrative — most pointedly by wondering how the ’ugly’ sister would feel about the beloved Cinderella-esque Agnes — but the writer-director and ...

For BalletWest’s next performance, the tale of Cinderella will be told again, recreating the version Ashton premiered in 1948 at the Royal Opera House in London. Now, 77 years later, the same ballet ...

Agnes is the story's Cinderella, intruding on the ball with ... Streaming service Shudder will release The Ugly Sister later this year. Fred Topel, who attended film school at Ithaca College ...

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 ...