In her Sundance-bowing feature, the director Emilie Blichfeldt reimagines the fairytale from the perspective of a stepsister ...

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

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

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

Most fairy tales were told and retold countless times before Walt Disney ever got his hands on them, and yet, the sensibility ...

rather than Disney’s, has universal appeal. “There’s only one Cinderella. The rest of us are the ugly stepsister, struggling to fit into the shoe.” What version of Cinderella did you grow ...

Emilie Blichfeldt's The Ugly Stepsister twists Cinderella into a bloody horror story about the pain and despair of trying to ...

Cinderella, as popularized by the Brothers Grimm, Perrault and Disney, woos a prince and lives happily ever after. But what of her stepsisters, the bullies who we believe deserved their comeuppance?

The Dolphin Show’s “Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella”‘ woos the audience with charm and childhood nostalgia. It feels ...