5 days ago · 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 …

Emilie Blichfeldt is known for The Ugly Stepsister (2025), How Do You Like My Hair? (2013) and Stesøstra (2020).

6 days ago · In Emilie Blichfeldt's film, a young Elvira (Lea Myren) arrives at a beautiful manor with her mother Rebekka (Ane Dahl Torp) and younger sister Alma (Flo Fagerli).After the …

6 days ago · In her Sundance-bowing feature, the director Emilie Blichfeldt reimagines the fairytale from the perspective of a stepsister desperate for beauty. By Lovia Gyarkye Arts & …

6 days ago · The better of the two is Emilie Blichfeldt’s “The Ugly Stepsister,” a Shudder original that uses the classic tale of Cinderella in ways that Walt Disney could have never imagined. …

The Ugly Stepsister (Norwegian: Den stygge stesøsteren) is a 2025 comedy horror film co-written and directed by Emilie Blichfeldt in her directorial debut. The film, starring Lea Myren, Thea …

Jan 24, 2025 · Sundance: 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 …

Jan 24, 2025 · Cinderella was always a body-horror story. Norwegian director Emilie Blichfeldt’s ‘The Ugly Stepsister,’ which premiered tonight at Sundance, underlines the base grotesquerie …

6 days ago · Feverishly funny, gruesomely gross and unrelenting in its satirical critique of both beauty standards and the designation of a cinematic “protagonist,” director Emilie Blichfeldt’s …

Apr 29, 2024 · Memento International has boarded “The Ugly Stepsister,” the ambitious feature debut of Norwegian director Emilie Blichfeldt. The company will kick off sales at this year’s …