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

Director Emilie Blichfeldt skewers unfair female beauty standards in a horrific spin on the fairy tale, presented here from ...

"There's only one Cinderella, the rest of us are the ugly stepsister." By Scott Roxborough Europe Bureau Chief The Ugly Stepsister, Blichtfeldt’s debut feature — which premiered at Sundance ...

It all started with Norwegian filmmaker Emilie Blichfeldt envisioning a bloody shoe. “I’ve been working on female characters that are struggling with their bodies through my short films,” she says.

In everything from the often incongruous score to the staging and sudden zooms, which results in some of the most unique and strange framings of genitals you’ll ever see, “The Ugly Stepsister ...

Norwegian horror fable The Ugly Stepsister has debuted with a near-perfect score on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes. Fresh off its Sundance Film Festival premiere, the movie from first-time ...

Companies prey on insecurities, selling solutions to invented problems. When The Ugly Stepsister retreads these well-appreciated facts through visual gags or obvious dialogue, the effect can be dull.

(Have a look at those horror-ceiling-shattering Oscar nominations, for one.) “The Ugly Stepsister” begins with the tragically forced communion of two families as the brace-faced, ringleted ...

The Ugly Stepsister will stream on Shudder in 2025. This review is based on a screening at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival. Discovering the violent origins of classic fairy tales is a rite of ...

“There’s only one Cinderella. 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 ...

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 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 ...