The Ugly Stepsister” works best when it’s not just merely tweaking but thoroughly elaborating on its source material.

One horror film has been dubbed so ‘grotesque’ that a viewer threw up at the premiere. From The Substance to Nosferatu, ...

Of course we all know the tale of Cinderella, and by now we're probably familiar with the source material and how dark ...

Norwegian director Emilie Blichfeldt on her reframing the Cinderella story as body horror about the bloody pursuit of beauty.

The Norwegian comedy horror film, The Ugly Stepsister, had its world premiere in the Midnight Section of the 2025 Sundance ...

In The Ugly Stepsister, Norwegian director Emilie Blichfeldt recasts the story of these "ugly" young women as a horrifying ...

The Midnight section of the Sundance Film Festival is usual ripe with horror and thriller gems that endure throughout the ...

W ritten and directed by Emilie Blichfeldt, The Ugly Stepsister is a subversive body horror that twists the familiar tale of ...

The Norwegian film "The Ugly Stepsister," which premiered Thursday at the Sundance Film Festival, ramps up the darkness of ...

If the disheartening lack of creativity in Disney’s live-action remakes leaves one thinking these timeless stories have, in ...

Increasingly the location that the festival employs when they want to show Sundance attendees something a bit off the beaten ...

The Ugly Stepsister’s torture-porn take on a classic fairy tale is told from a teenager’s point of view, but the grotesque ...