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.

Director Emilie Blichfeldt skewers unfair female beauty standards in a horrific spin on the fairy tale, presented here from ...

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

Director Emilie Blichfeldt breaks down her dreamy horror fable "The Ugly Stepsister," which is debuting at Sundance on Thursday.

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 family-friendly studio’s more-wholesome-than-horrifying approach gives Norwegian writer-director Emilie Blichfeldt plenty of room to push back with “The Ugly Stepsister,” a deliciously ...