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Most fairy tales were told and retold countless times before Walt Disney ever got his hands on them, and yet, the sensibility ...

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 ...

Norwegian director Emilie Blichfeldt on her reframing the Cinderella story as body horror about the bloody pursuit of beauty.

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

Anora,” the new Oscar-nominated film from the writer and director Sean Baker, answers this question—that is, if Cinderella ...

Agnes is the Cinderella character here ... the film shows the prince as she imagines him — though the real thing is less than charming. Agnes knows better than to idolize such a shallow fellow ...

Director Emilie Blichfeldt breaks down her dreamy horror fable "The Ugly Stepsister," which is debuting at Sundance on Thursday.