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

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

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.

The Ugly Stepsister,' a nightmarish fairytale reimagining, serves Sam Raimi-levels of mayhem with its critique of brutal ...

Beauty is brutal in Shudder's The Ugly Stepsister, and Emilie Blichfeldt understands exactly how to capture that viscerally.

Increasingly the location that the festival employs when they want to show Sundance attendees something a bit off the beaten ...

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

Norwegian horror fable The Ugly Stepsister has debuted with a near-perfect score on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes. Fresh ...

The Ugly Stepsister will stream on Shudder in 2025. This review is based on a screening at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival.

If the disheartening lack of creativity in Disney’s live-action remakes leaves one thinking these timeless stories have, in ...