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

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

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 ...

Emilie Blichfeldt: I grew up on a small picture book, a very simplified version of the Brothers Grimm version of Cinderella. There was an image of one of the stepsisters on the prince’s horse ...

How has it felt to get such huge platforms for the launch of your debut feature? Emilie Blichfeldt: It's insane! How am I supposed to do this again, you know? But I've loved it, especially ...

And the latest entry into this brutally necessary subgenre is writer/director Emilie Blichfeldt’s feature film debut The Ugly Stepsister. Even though it’s set in the past, Blichfeldt’s ...

Norwegian director Emilie Blichfeldt swaps tapeworms for silkworms in a gory Grimm Brothers update about the body-horror extremes of the pursuit of beauty. It’s tough times out there for a ...

“The Ugly Stepsister,” written and directed by Emilie Blichfeldt, takes its cue from “Cinderella,” but this inspired body horror comedy is no Disney film. This fairy tale is both Grimm and ...

It’s the obvious approach given the title of the story, but Emilie Blichfeldt approaches the tale from a new angle in her directorial debut, The Ugly Stepsister. Rather than retread familiar ...

From filmmaker Emilie Blichfeldt, the film follows Elvira (Lea Myren), a young woman determined to make herself beautiful enough to win the prince’s hand, no matter the bloody, bone-crunching ...

The film is written and directed by Emilie Blichfeldt, making it her directorial debut. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on January 23, 2025. The story follows Elvira, who competes ...

The Overlook Film Festival has named the best of the fest. The feature film audience award went to Emilie Blichfeldt’s “The Ugly Stepsister,” while the grand jury prize for best feature film ...