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 ...

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

It all started with Norwegian filmmaker Emilie Blichfeldt envisioning a bloody shoe. “I’ve been working on female characters that are struggling with their bodies through my short films ...

Norwegian director Emilie Blichfeldt skewers impossible female beauty standards in a horrific spin on the familiar fairy tale, presented here from the rival's perspective. Most fairy tales were ...

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In her Sundance-bowing feature, the director Emilie Blichfeldt reimagines the fairytale from the perspective of a stepsister desperate for beauty. By Lovia Gyarkye Arts & Culture Critic Everyone ...

Norwegian director Emilie Blichfeldt’s The Ugly Stepsister underlines the base grotesquerie of the original fairy tale. Photo: Marcel Zyskind The film begins with wide-eyed Elvira (Lea Myren ...

thoughtfully executed fairytale nightmare-comedy like Emilie Blichfeldt’s The Ugly Stepsister. Set in a fantastical alternate 1900s, The Ugly Stepsister shifts the spotlight to the familiar ...

Sundance: Norwegian director Emilie Blichfeldt swaps tapeworms for silkworms in a gory Grimm Brothers update about the body-horror extremes of the pursuit of beauty. It’s tough times out there ...

Fresh off its Sundance Film Festival premiere, the movie from first-time filmmaker Emilie Blichfeldt earned a critics' rating of 96% from 28 reviews at the time of writing. A gorier take on the ...

From director Emilie Blichfeldt and a beauty-horror reimagining of the classic fairy tale — the film already sold to Shudder for North America, the U.K. and Australia-New Zealand before it’s ...

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 ...