Norwegian director Emilie Blichfeldt’s The Ugly Stepsister underlines the base grotesquerie of the original fairy tale.

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

Of course we all know the tale of Cinderella, and by now we're probably familiar with the source material and how dark ...

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." ...

He also depicts the original fairy tale characters after their happily ever afters. For example, the well-known princesses such as Cinderella, Snow White and Rapunzel are shown as they live their ...

But Cinderella is a fairy tale, so there is no original version. The question for me was: What’s my perspective on this? It was really important for me to make the stepsister a three-dimensional ...

Increasingly the location that the festival employs when they want to show Sundance attendees something a bit off the beaten ...

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