Emilie Blichfeldt’s The Ugly Stepsister is a skin-crawlingly grotesque and tragically poignant debut that reimagines the ...

The latest horror adaptation of a Disney classic is one of the year's most harrowing movie experiences, and it's now a ...

The dark and brutal body-horror of The Ugly Stepsister draws from the long relationship between fairy tales and the horror genre.

Emilie Blichfeldt's sublime body horror film is a gnarly reworking of the Cinderella fairy tale - a rebuke to the more ...

The 2025 film boasts an impressive 95 per cent critics' score on Rotten Tomatoes at time of writing, with an audience score ...

Who doesn’t love a new twist on an old tale? Well, if you’ve got a soft stomach, prepare yourself for “The Ugly Stepsister,” a twisted tale indeed, that reimagines the Cinderella story as ...

The Ugly Stepsister is described as a "timely examination of body image and beauty standards" as Elvira prepares to win the prince's affection "at any cost". "In a kingdom where beauty is a brutal ...

In a bold and grotesque reimagining of the widely known fairytale Cinderella, the AMC network's Shudder is soon to release The Ugly Stepsister in the US. Emilie Blichfeldt is the director and ...

This deliciously nasty reworking of the Cinderella fairy tale imagines how far one of the stepsisters would go to marry her prince. By Jeannette Catsoulis When you purchase a ticket for an ...

"The Ugly Stepsister" is "an ingenious revisionist body-horror version of Cinderella" that unfolds from the perspective of ...

While most in this space primarily serve as shock horror, playing on the nostalgia you feel for characters you loved as a child, The Ugly Stepsister is a surprisingly meaningful commentary on its ...