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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

During the opening credits of “The Ugly Stepsister,” the camera pans slowly ... Yet the movie, adapted by the Norwegian filmmaker Emilie Blichfeldt from the Cinderella story, is the opposite ...

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 ...