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"Who's Going To Let Me Do This": The Ugly Stepsister Director & Star Recall 10-Year Journey To Make Cinderella Body-Horror MovieT 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 ...
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"Beauty Horror, As I Like To Call It": 2025 Horror Director Addresses Early Comparisons To Demi Moore's The Substance After 97% RT DebutEXCLUSIVE: The director of an upcoming 2025 horror film addresses her movie's early comparisons to 2024's breakout film, The Substance.
“The Ugly Stepsister” — the Cinderella-inspired horror that emerged from Sundance as one of the festival’s buzziest titles — ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
If the disheartening lack of creativity in Disney’s live-action remakes leaves one thinking these timeless stories have, in fact, run their course, leave it to Norwegian director Emilie Blichfeldt to ...
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 ...
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