But despite being a body horror fever dream much closer to The Substance than Disney’s Cinderella, The Ugly Stepsister highlights the real-life issues women had to face at the time Cinderella ...

"The Ugly Stepsister" is "an ingenious revisionist body-horror version of Cinderella" that unfolds from the perspective of ...

Emilie Blichfeldt’s The Ugly Stepsister is a skin-crawlingly grotesque and tragically poignant debut that reimagines the ...

Emilie Blichfeldt's sublime body horror film is a gnarly reworking of the Cinderella fairy tale - a rebuke to the more ...

We're in an era of fairy-tales and wholesome characters becoming terrifying horror movies, and now it's Cinderella's turn. The classic tale has been transformed into a gruesome film known as The ...

The Norwegian body horror movie takes inspiration from Cinderella, which seems a more natural fit for the genre than, say, Winnie the Pooh. If you want to see whether your stomach can handle it ...

Opus – whether you consider it a ‘true’ horror or not – was a subversive blend of artistry and gore. But the best hidden gem ...

The 2025 film boasts an impressive 95 per cent critics' score on Rotten Tomatoes at time of writing, with an audience score ...

The latest offering from Talk To Me's breakout directors supplies phenomenal performances and touching relationships… if you can stomach the gore.

Part of the Grimm’s Fairy Stories version of “Cinderella” involves her stepsisters ... isn’t born from the alienness of body horror — it’s from the sheer intimacy of having ugliness ...

Well, if you’ve got a soft stomach, prepare yourself for “The Ugly Stepsister,” a twisted tale indeed, that reimagines the Cinderella story as a body-horror costume drama. From filmmaker ...