This review of The Ugly Stepsister comes from its screenings at the Berlin International Film Festival. It will be updated ...

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

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 ...

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

“The Ugly Stepsister” is “Terrifier” meets “Wicked”; it neither shies away from the innate body horror nor moral underpinnings of its premise. The film’s most gruesome moments aren ...

One horror film has been dubbed so ‘grotesque ... the Sundance Film Festival proving to be too much for some. The Ugly Stepsister, the Norwegian film which is titled Den stygge stesøsteren ...

Blichfeldt highlights contemporary concerns through numerous cosmetic surgery procedures that Elvira has to go through to look presentable for the ball—a conduit for “The Ugly Stepsister” ’s body ...

The Ugly Stepsister too, rewrites a fairytale as a striking horror ... yet quite physically demanding role. While body horror is part and parcel of many fairytales, the film also delights in turning ...