‘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.
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: 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
‘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.
REVIEW: The Ugly Stepsister
Fairytales are inherently horror stories, and they’re at their best when they skew the world that the viewers are accustomed to the most. Shudder’s The Ugly Stepsister offers up a body horror-fueled wicked twist to the classic Cinderella story that we’ve all come to know.
The Ugly Stepsister Review: I Didn't Throw Up Watching This Gruesome Body Horror, But I Understand Why Someone Did
W ritten and directed by Emilie Blichfeldt, The Ugly Stepsister is a subversive body horror that twists the familiar tale of Cinderella and gives us a psychological beauty-is-pain
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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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‘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.