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

In her Sundance-bowing feature, the director Emilie Blichfeldt reimagines the fairytale from the perspective of a stepsister desperate ... experiments with body horror also underscore Elvira ...

W ritten and directed by Emilie Blichfeldt, The Ugly Stepsister is a subversive body horror that twists the familiar tale of Cinderella and gives us a psychological beauty-is-pain ...

Blichfeldt credits body horror godfather David Cronenberg as an influence — how could she not? — though “The Ugly Stepsister” is more body horror in its formalism than spiritually in terms ...

Set in a fantastical alternate 1900s, The Ugly Stepsister shifts the spotlight ... cosmetic procedures and punishing rounds of body horror to alter her appearance. Blichfeldt is serving a morbidly ...

“The Ugly Stepsister” has its Sundance debut in the middle of a rousing awards campaign for Coralie Fargeat’s “The Substance,” another body horror film that satirizes cosmetic surgery ...

Norwegian writer-director Emilie Blichfeldt’s grotesque reworking of the Cinderella story creates a world where beauty is pain for some women, but life is pain for all of them.

The Ugly Stepsister is described by director Emilie Blichfeldt as "beauty horror." She cites David Cronenberg as one of her inspirations, and it's easy to see why. Like many Cronenberg films, the body ...

Sundance: Norwegian director Emilie Blichfeldt swaps tapeworms for silkworms in a gory Grimm Brothers update about the body-horror extremes of the pursuit of beauty.