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 ...

This feminist body horror drips with gothic style and grotesque beauty as it follows the tormented journey Elvira, one of ...

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

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 a Sundance profile for feature debut “The Ugly Stepsister,” which opened the festival’s 2025 Midnight section, filmmaker Emilie Blichfeldt described growing up “in a tiny village above the Arctic ...

BEAUTY, according to Socrates, was nothing more than a short-lived tyranny.The enlightened Greek philosopher could have been ...

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 closest I’ve ever been to vomiting in a movie theater. Emilie Blichfeldt’s twisted take on Cinderella is more like Cinder-Hell-a for its main character, Lea Myren ...