Emilie Blichfeldt: I grew up on a small picture ... That was important for me, to show people why the “ugly stepsister,” who becomes the “wicked stepsister” more and more, does these ...

It’s the obvious approach given the title of the story, but Emilie Blichfeldt approaches the tale from a new angle in her directorial debut, The Ugly Stepsister. Rather than retread familiar ...

The latest horror adaptation of a Disney classic is one of the year's most harrowing movie experiences, and it's now a ...

The dark and brutal body-horror of The Ugly Stepsister draws from the long relationship between fairy tales and the horror ...

And the latest entry into this brutally necessary subgenre is writer/director Emilie Blichfeldt’s feature film debut The Ugly Stepsister. Even though it’s set in the past, Blichfeldt’s ...

Euronews Culture sits down with Norwegian director Emilie Blichfeldt to talk about her savage and thought-provoking reframing of the Cinderella story, which wowed audiences in Sundance and Berlin.

In the most visceral, terrifying terms, The Ugly Stepsister embodies the adage “beauty is pain.” Emilie Blichfeldt retells the fable of Snow White through the desperate eyes of Cinderella’s stepsister ...

“The Ugly Stepsister,” written and directed by Emilie Blichfeldt, takes its cue from “Cinderella,” but this inspired body horror comedy is no Disney film. This fairy tale is both Grimm and ...

Emilie Blichfeldt‘s The Ugly Stepsister (2025) movie trailer has been released by Shudder and IFC Films. The Ugly Stepsister trailer stars Lea Myren, Thea Sofie Loch Næss, and Ane Dahl Torp.

Sjur Miljeteig, Lea Myren, Emilie Blichfeldt, Thea Sofie Loch Næss Agnes, and Maria Ekerhovd attend the "The Ugly Stepsister" Premiere during the 2025 Sundance Film Festival at Library Center ...

prepare yourself for “The Ugly Stepsister,” a twisted tale indeed, that reimagines the Cinderella story as a body-horror costume drama. From filmmaker Emilie Blichfeldt, the film follows ...

Enter Norwegian filmmaker Emilie Blichfeldt, who makes her gruesome entrée into that movement with her playfully grotesque feature debut “The Ugly Stepsister.” One character’s name being ...