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

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

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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,” she says.

Andy Tennant directed this Cinderella variant. The Brothers Grimm arrive at the home of a wealthy Grande Dame (Jeanne Moreau) who speaks of the many legends surrounding the fable of the cinder ...

Film goers will be disappointed to learn that it'll be some time yet before it is launched with the films release currently scheduled for March, kicking off in Norway first but later available for ...

Review: Emilie Blichfeldt's feminist body horror fairytale 'The Ugly Stepsister' isn't more than skin deep, but it's squeamish enough that way.

Norwegian horror fable The Ugly Stepsister has debuted with a near-perfect score on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes. Fresh ...

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

I also had a book, which I now understand made a very big impact on me, the Brothers Grimm version of Cinderella, one of the first books I read as a child. I found the book again a few years ago ...

“It was in the development process of one of these films that I was having a creative nap, and suddenly this little piece of the Brothers Grimm version of ‘Cinderella‘ came to me. I just ...