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

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 ugly stepsister."

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 Sofie Loch Næss, Ane Dahl Torp, and Flo Fagerli, making use of the motif of the fairy tale Cinderella, retells a twisted story of Elvira who competes against her beautiful stepsister in a bloody battle ...

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 death of her husband ...

6 days ago · Norwegian director Emilie Blichfeldt skewers impossible female beauty standards in a horrific spin on the familiar fairy tale, presented here from the rival's perspective. Most fairy tales were ...

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. Inspired by David Cronenberg’s body horror oeuvre, it’s almost a fairy tale sibling to Coralie Fargeat’s “The Substance,” a story of an obsessive quest for female perfection, the tale of a …

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 The Ugly...

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 of the original ...

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 tough times out there ...

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 Cannes. Combining...