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.
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 ...
The Midnight section of the Sundance Film Festival is usual ripe with horror and thriller gems that endure throughout the ...
In The Ugly Stepsister, Norwegian director Emilie Blichfeldt recasts the story of these "ugly" young women as a horrifying ...
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 ...
W ritten and directed by Emilie Blichfeldt, The Ugly Stepsister is a subversive body horror that twists the familiar tale of ...