T he iconic fairy tale of Cinderella is getting a wild twist with the Sundance hit, The Ugly Stepsister. The movie hails from Norwegian writer/director Emilie Blichfeldt in her fe ...
Following in the bloody footsteps of Coralie Fargeat’s 'The Substance,' a new wave of female filmmakers is reinventing body ...
It all started with Norwegian filmmaker Emilie Blichfeldt envisioning a bloody shoe. "I've been working on female characters that are struggling with their bodies through my short films," she says.
as well as “The Ugly Stepsister,” Emilie Blichfeldt’s horror twist on the Cinderella tale which opened Sundance’s Midnight ...
The Ugly Stepsister” — the Cinderella-inspired horror that emerged from Sundance as one of the festival’s buzziest titles — has sold worldwide for Memento International. From director Emilie ...
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 tough times out there ...
In her attempt to add complexity to a well-known tale, Blichfeldt doesn’t entirely escape the trap of fairy tale good-bad objectivism. Rather, she often maintains this status quo, and the film ...
Having taken the Sundance Film Festival by storm, director Emilie Blichfeldt wowed critics' with her movie debut introducing her take on the very grotesque version of the classic Disney princess ...
The story of Cinderella has been passed down across the world for centuries, first through oral lore, then via various ...
Lea Myren appears in ‘The Ugly Stepsister’ by Emilie Blichfeldt. Ducournau, Fargeat and Blichfeldt all cite Canadian director David Cronenberg as a primary inspiration. Cronenberg’s use of ...
From director Emilie Blichfeldt and a beauty-horror reimagining of the classic fairy tale — the film already sold to Shudder for North America, the U.K. and Australia-New Zealand before it’s ...