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

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

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 2025 film boasts an impressive 95 per cent critics' score on Rotten Tomatoes at time of writing, with an audience score at a respectable 86 per cent. However, many reviewers have all issued a ...

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 ...

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

To her horror, she realizes “Of course I’m not Cinderella, I’m the stepsister!” And I woke up in total shock, because I had immediately identified with her. I have shoe size 11 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

We feel the sadness, too. Maybe once upon a time we were supposed to identify with Cinderella, but the truth is that we’re all ugly stepsisters at heart. But what makes this picture so ...

"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.