Director Emilie Blichfeldt skewers unfair female beauty standards in a horrific spin on the fairy tale, presented here from the rival's perspective.
Review: Emilie Blichfeldt's feminist body horror fairytale 'The Ugly Stepsister' isn't more than skin deep, but it's ...
T he iconic fairy tale of Cinderella is getting a wild twist with the Sundance hit, The Ugly Stepsister. The movie hails from ...
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." ...
The Ugly Stepsister” works best when it’s not just merely tweaking but thoroughly elaborating on its source material.
The Ugly Stepsister,' a nightmarish fairytale reimagining, serves Sam Raimi-levels of mayhem with its critique of brutal beauty standards.
W ritten and directed by Emilie Blichfeldt, The Ugly Stepsister is a subversive body horror that twists the familiar tale of ...
Using fantasy visions of the prince (who writes the worst poetry you’ve ever heard) before turning them on their head to bring it closer to the Grimm version of the story, the experience of watching ...
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In her Sundance-bowing feature, the director Emilie Blichfeldt reimagines the fairytale ... selling solutions to invented problems. When The Ugly Stepsister retreads these well-appreciated facts ...
The Ugly Stepsister will stream on Shudder in 2025. This review is based on a screening at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival.