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.

“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 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 ...

“There’s only one Cinderella. The rest of us are the ugly stepsister ... And my parents were all about books. We got a combined VHS/DVD player when I was 13, which was the first time I ...

Rebekka (Anna Dahl Torp), left, fits her daughter Elvira (Lea Myren) with a medieval nose job protector in "The Ugly Stepsister," which premiered Thursday at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival.

By Lovia Gyarkye Arts & Culture Critic Everyone knows Cinderella’s story ... selling solutions to invented problems. When The Ugly Stepsister retreads these well-appreciated facts through ...

PARK CITY, UTAH Jan. 24 (UPI) --The Ugly Stepsister, which premiered Thursday at the Sundance Film Festival, embraces the darkness of the original Cinderella fairy tale. The Norwegian film ramps ...

“The Ugly Stepsister” isn’t for the weak-stomached or, for that matter, the average-stomached. In this horror retelling of “Cinderella ... and groan and cover their eyes and peek ...

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The rest of us are the ugly stepsister, struggling to fit into the shoe.” What version of Cinderella did you grow up on? I grew up in a house in the north of Norway, where the road ends at the horizon ...