Emilie Blichfeldt’s ‘The Ugly Stepsister’ explores the evergreen subject of beauty standards and body image through the ...

As Disney continues their industrious effort to remake all of their most beloved classic animated films in live-action form, ...

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

From 3 to 8 June, with Claudio Santamaria as artistic director, the festival will offer 10 international features in ...

Emilie Blichfeldt's sublime body horror film is a gnarly reworking of the Cinderella fairy tale - a rebuke to the more sanitised Disney adaptations of the story, instead drawing influence from ...

The Ugly Stepsister (2025) Film Review, a movie written and directed by Emilie Blichfeldt and starring Lea Myren, Ane Dahl Torp, Thea Sofie Loch Næss, Isac Calmroth, Malte Gårdinger, Ralph ...

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” is the newest Cinderella adaptation that takes a body horror twist on the classic story. While the film successfully reworked the original, the filmmaker, Emilie Blichfeldt, ...

The Norwegian writer-director Emilie Blichfeldt roasts conventional heroines and female beauty standards in this gruesome, hilarious reworking of Cinderella. Elvira (Lea Myren) is a poignantly ...

Emilie Blichfeldt’s dark ... since the strong sex and gore will certainly limit The Ugly Stepsister’s commercial appeal. But at the same time, it’s something different and exciting, and ...