Emilie Blichfeldt's feature debut "The Ugly Stepsister" is a grim and gruesome affair not for the faint of heart ...

PARK CITY, UTAH Jan. 24 (UPI) --The Ugly Stepsister, which premiered Thursday at the Sundance Film Festival, embraces the darkness of the original Cinderella fairy tale. The Norwegian film ramps ...

“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 ...

By Lovia Gyarkye Arts & Culture Critic Everyone knows Cinderella’s story ... selling solutions to invented problems. When The Ugly Stepsister retreads these well-appreciated facts through ...

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 ...

(Have a look at those horror-ceiling-shattering Oscar nominations, for one.) “The Ugly Stepsister” begins with the tragically forced communion of two families as the brace-faced, ringleted ...

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 extreme ...

"There's only one Cinderella, the rest of us are the ugly stepsister." By Scott Roxborough Europe Bureau Chief The Ugly Stepsister, Blichtfeldt’s debut feature — which premiered at Sundance ...

The Ugly Stepsister dissects the Cinderella narrative — most pointedly by wondering how the ’ugly’ sister would feel about the beloved Cinderella-esque Agnes — but the writer-director and ...

“The Ugly Stepsister” isn’t for the weak-stomached or, for that matter, the average-stomached. In this horror retelling of “Cinderella,” Elvira (Lea Myren) desires to marry Prince Julian ...