In The Ugly Stepsister, writer/director Emilie Blichfeldt reimagines Cinderella from the perspective of one of the ...

The Ugly Stepsister is now streaming on Shudder, a horror-focused streaming service that starts at $7.50/month and offers a 7 ...

In the most visceral, terrifying terms, The Ugly Stepsister embodies the adage “beauty is pain.” Emilie Blichfeldt retells ...

The Ugly Stepsister is a twisted Norwegian-language retelling of the story of Cinderella. Screenwriter Emilie Blichfeldt made her directorial debut while co-writing the film.

While reminding us that villains often have better stories than heroes, The Ugly Stepsister also creates empathy for those ...

"The Ugly Stepsister" is "an ingenious revisionist body-horror version of Cinderella" that unfolds from the perspective of the fairy-tale's antagonist, said Peter Bradshaw in The Guardian. In 18th ...

While reminding us that villains often have better stories than heroes, The Ugly Stepsister also creates empathy for those who didn’t feel enough.

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 ...