Cinderella, The Ugly Stepsister

‘The Ugly Stepsister' Review: Stylish Norwegian Debut Takes ‘Cinderella' for a Body-Horror Spin
In her Sundance-bowing feature, the director Emilie Blichfeldt reimagines the fairytale from the perspective of a stepsister desperate for beauty.
‘The Ugly Stepsister’ Review: Eat Your Heart Out Cinderella, This Shudder Horror Is the Bloody Belle of the Ball
Emilie Blichfeldt's feature debut "The Ugly Stepsister" is a grim and gruesome affair not for the faint of heart
Sundance Review: Cinderella Gets a Gruesome, Empathetic Body Horror Twist with The Ugly Stepsister
If the disheartening lack of creativity in Disney’s live-action remakes leaves one thinking these timeless stories have, in fact, run their course, leave it to Norwegian director Emilie Blichfeldt to find new life (and blood) with the Cinderella tale.
Sundance movie review: 'Ugly Stepsister' is gruesome twist on Cinderella
The Norwegian film "The Ugly Stepsister," which premiered Thursday at the Sundance Film Festival, ramps up the darkness of the original "Cinderella" fairy tale.
‘The Ugly Stepsister' Review: Scary Scandinavian Cinderella Story Puts the ‘Boo' in ‘Bibbidi Bobbidi'
Most fairy tales were told and retold countless times before Walt Disney ever got his hands on them, and yet, the sensibility behind such animated classics as "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" and "Sleeping Beauty" has proven so popular on such an international scale that few know these stories' darker origins.
‘The Ugly Stepsister’ Review: Beauty Is Pain in a Squeamish Cinderella Story for the Feminist Body Horror Age
Review: Emilie Blichfeldt's feminist body horror fairytale 'The Ugly Stepsister' isn't more than skin deep, but it's squeamish enough that way.
‘Ugly Stepsister’ Director on How She Worked to “Get the Gore Right”
Norwegian director Emilie Blichfeldt on her reframing the Cinderella story as body horror about the bloody pursuit of beauty.
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Dolphin Show’s ‘Cinderella’ is the fairytale escape we all need
The Dolphin Show’s “Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella”‘ woos the audience with charm and childhood nostalgia. It feels ...
Cinderella Was Always a Body-Horror Story
Norwegian director Emilie Blichfeldt’s The Ugly Stepsister underlines the base grotesquerie of the original fairy tale.
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Oscar-nominated ‘Anora’: The Cinderella story that wasn’t
Anora,” the new Oscar-nominated film from the writer and director Sean Baker, answers this question—that is, if Cinderella were an exotic dancer and her prince the profligate son of a Russian oligarch ...
‘Anora’ Is More Than a Brooklyn Cinderella Story
A sex worker in a romantic comedy isn’t new. How the Oscar-nominated film uses immigrant Brooklyn to subvert the genre?
What's next for the Commanders after the Eagles trampled their Cinderella run?
Washington ultimately couldn’t overcome the lack of defensive personnel that haunted the franchise after last year’s sell-off ...
Who Knew a Feminist Reimagining of ‘Cinderella’ Could Be So Gory?
PARK CITY, Utah—Reimagining Cinderella as a horror-comedy about the misery women endure to be attractive in the hopes of ...
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Assistance League of Bend’s Cinderella’s Closet opens for the winter dance season
As the high school winter formal season begins, Deschutes County students are invited to check out the wide selection of new ...