Prepared for a gnarly fairytale, filled with physique horror, darkish humor, and sibling rivalry? The Ugly Stepsister offers you all that and extra. And the video above offers you a bone-crunching preview.
Written and directed by Emilie Blichfeldt, this critically heralded horror film takes the Cinderella story you thought you knew, and provides it a bloody recent spin by specializing in the maligned ugly stepsister. Positive, Elvira (Lea Myren) goals of being swept up within the arms of the dominion’s good-looking prince. However to catch the attention of this eligible bachelor, her ruthless mom (Ane Dahl Torp) believes she wants the assistance of Dr. Esthétique (Adam Lundgren), a medieval beauty surgeon whose strategies are, properly, the stuff of nightmares.
The clip above gives among the horrid lengths poor Elvira will go to attain her happily-ever-after. However the cheeky tone of this fake business for Dr. Esthétique offers a way of the depraved humorousness at play in The Ugly Stepsister.
As I cheered in my review out of the movie’s Sundance premiere, “The Ugly Stepsister is a deranged and dizzying achievement, folding in a traditional story with a bitingly trendy satire and daring physique horror. Blichfeldt weaves these components collectively to make a movie that feels each of this second and aesthetically nostalgic.”
See for yourself when The Ugly Stepsister opens in theaters on April 18.
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