The story of Cinderella has been passed down across the world for centuries, first through oral lore, then via various ...

Following in the bloody footsteps of Coralie Fargeat’s 'The Substance,' a new wave of female filmmakers is reinventing body ...

“The Ugly Stepsister” — the Cinderella-inspired horror that emerged from Sundance as one of the festival’s buzziest titles — ...

Norwegian director Emilie Blichfeldt on her reframing the Cinderella story as body horror about the bloody pursuit of beauty. "There's only one Cinderella, the rest of us are the ugly stepsister.

“The Ugly Stepsister” isn’t for the weak-stomached ... In her attempt to add complexity to a well-known tale, Blichfeldt doesn’t entirely escape the trap of fairy tale good-bad objectivism.

This year's Sundance Film Festival was rich with films and the theatres were warm, even as temperatures outside dipped to ...

T he iconic fairy tale of Cinderella is getting a wild twist with the Sundance hit, The Ugly Stepsister. The movie hails from Norwegian writer/director Emilie Blichfeldt in her fe ...

Lea Myren appears in ‘The Ugly Stepsister’ by Emilie Blichfeldt. Ducournau, Fargeat and Blichfeldt all cite Canadian director David Cronenberg as a primary inspiration. Cronenberg’s use of ...

“The Ugly ... Stepsister” — the Cinderella-inspired horror that emerged from Sundance as one of the festival’s buzziest titles — has sold worldwide for Memento International. From ...

Sundance’s Midnight screenings this year included Emilie Blichfeldt’s The Ugly Stepsister — a twisted take on the Cinderella story involving bone-crunching cosmetic surgery and bodily mutilation — and ...