Well, if you’ve got a soft stomach, prepare yourself for “The Ugly Stepsister,” a twisted tale indeed, that reimagines the Cinderella story as a body-horror costume drama. From filmmaker ...

In recent years, many beloved fairy tales or famous children's stories have been turned into horrors or slashers, like the ...

Blichfieldt's "burn it all down" approach creates turbulence and upset while walking over very well-trod ground.

“The Ugly Stepsister,” written and directed by Emilie Blichfeldt, takes its cue from “Cinderella,” but this inspired body horror comedy is no Disney film. This fairy tale is both Grimm and ...

That was important for me, to show people why the “ugly stepsister,” who becomes the “wicked stepsister” more and more, does these selfish things. And with Agnes/Cinderella, I thought ...

Stars Lea Myren, Thea Sofie Loch Naess and writer/director Emilie Blichfeldt spoke with UPI about the dark Cinderella story ...

Enter Norwegian filmmaker Emilie Blichfeldt, who makes her gruesome entrée into that movement with her playfully grotesque feature debut “The Ugly Stepsister.” One character’s name being ...

The important thing to note here is that unlike within most other iterations of Cinderella’s ugly sisters, Elvira and Alma are not ‘ugly’. In comparison to Agnes, the pair are somewhat plain ...

Who doesn’t love a new twist on an old tale? Well, if you’ve got a soft stomach, prepare yourself for “The Ugly Stepsister,” a twisted tale indeed, that reimagines the Cinderella story as a ...