Norwegian director Emilie Blichfeldt’s The Ugly Stepsister underlines the base grotesquerie of the original 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." ...

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

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

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

W ritten and directed by Emilie Blichfeldt, The Ugly Stepsister is a subversive body horror that twists the familiar tale of ...

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

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

Most fairy tales were told and retold countless times before Walt Disney ever got his hands on them, and yet, the sensibility ...

Reimagining Cinderella as a horror-comedy about the misery women endure to be attractive in the hopes of catching men’s eyes, ...

The horror of The Ugly Stepsister comes ... Now, the antagonist is as persecuted as Cinderella was in previous incarnations. Fairy tales originated as scary stories to warn kids about threats ...