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

The Norwegian film "The Ugly Stepsister," which premiered Thursday at the Sundance Film Festival, ramps up the darkness of the original "Cinderella" fairy tale.

I’ve taken the liberty to combine different versions of Cinderella. The Brothers Grimm one describes the sisters as beautiful on the outside and ugly on the inside, which I still think is very ...

Of course we all know the tale of Cinderella, and by now we're probably familiar with the source material and how dark Grimm's fairy tales actually are. These stories have been given the horror ...

Photo: Marcel Zyskind The film begins with wide-eyed Elvira (Lea Myren) and her younger sister Alma ... to identify with Cinderella, but the truth is that we’re all ugly stepsisters at heart.

For BalletWest’s next performance, the tale of Cinderella will be told again, recreating the version Ashton premiered in 1948 at the Royal Opera House in London. Now, 77 years later, the same ballet ...

Norwegian director Emilie Blichfeldt on her reframing the Cinderella story as body horror about the bloody pursuit of beauty. "There's only one Cinderella, the rest of us are the ugly stepsister." ...

It’s becoming common practice to give fairytales a feminist makeover but few are as dark and intense as RashDash's adaptation of Cinderella. Presenting the viewpoint of the heroine's loud and ...

Agnes is the story's Cinderella, intruding on the ball with ... Streaming service Shudder will release The Ugly Sister later this year. Fred Topel, who attended film school at Ithaca College ...

The Ugly Stepsister” works best when it’s not just merely tweaking but thoroughly elaborating on its source material.