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‘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: 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
‘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: 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.
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
The Ugly Stepsister’s torture-porn take on a classic fairy tale is told from a teenager’s point of view, but the grotesque elements are appropriate for gorehounds of all ages.
‘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’ Suffers Body Horror for Beauty in Twisted Fairytale Retelling [Sundance 2025 Review]
The Ugly Stepsister,' a nightmarish fairytale reimagining, serves Sam Raimi-levels of mayhem with its critique of brutal beauty standards.
‘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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The Ugly Stepsister: Release details, plot, cast and more about the upcoming Norwegian comedy horror film
The Norwegian comedy horror film, The Ugly Stepsister, had its world premiere in the Midnight Section of the 2025 Sundance ...
‘The Ugly Stepsister’ Remixes Cinderella With Nauseating Body Horror for a Biting Commentary on Beauty Standards — Sundance
Director Emilie Blichfeldt breaks down her dreamy horror fable "The Ugly Stepsister," which is debuting at Sundance on Thursday.
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Sundance 2025: The Ugly Stepsister, By Design
Increasingly the location that the festival employs when they want to show Sundance attendees something a bit off the beaten ...
New horror movie debuts with near-perfect Rotten Tomatoes rating
Norwegian horror fable The Ugly Stepsister has debuted with a near-perfect score on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes. Fresh ...
Cinderella Was Always a Body-Horror Story
Norwegian director Emilie Blichfeldt’s The Ugly Stepsister underlines the base grotesquerie of the original fairy tale.
A "difficult-to-watch" new body horror movie featuring "barbaric" cosmetic surgery has already made one person throw up at Sundance
A new body horror movie inspired by Cinderella has debuted at Sundance, and it's already made one person throw up. The Ugly ...
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 ...