Daily updates from the 2025 Sundance Film Festival.

Folk tales of Cinderella have been told for centuries across the globe, but the Brothers Grimm version of the story emerged as one of the most popular for it...

In her Sundance-bowing feature, the director Emilie Blichfeldt reimagines the fairytale from the perspective of a stepsister desperate for beauty.

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

Imagine, if you will, if Cinderella wasn't so lovely.

The Ugly Stepsister is an audaciously gross reimagining of a tale old as time, but one that cleverly inverts perspective and expectation.

On two of the crazier opening night premieres of this year's Sundance.

The Cinderella fairytale is turned violently on its head in this gory Norwegian debut

“The Ugly Stepsister” just premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. Turns out beauty really is pain.

If the disheartening lack of creativity in Disney’s live-action remakes leaves one thinking these timeless stories have, in fact, run their course, leave i...

Sundance 2025: Emilie Blichfeldt's feature debut "The Ugly Stepsister" is a grim and gruesome affair not for the faint of heart

Director Emilie Blichfeldt skewers unfair female beauty standards in a horrific spin on the fairy tale, presented here from the rival's perspective.

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