A trailer has been launched for the Cinderella-inspired physique horror movie The Ugly Stepsister, which just lately screened at Sundance
Lots of kids’s tales and fairy tales are getting the horror therapy as of late – however fairy tale-inspired horror comedy that we’re listening to some very constructive buzz about is director Emilie Blichfeldt’s function debut The Ugly Stepsister. In truth, after seeing the movie on the Sundance Movie Pageant, JoBlo’s personal Chris Bumbray gave it an 8/10 evaluate that you may learn at THIS LINK. We don’t know when the movie goes to obtain a wider launch, however at this time a trailer has made its manner on-line and could be seen within the embed above.
The Ugly Stepsister is claimed to be a gory, daring, and surprising tackle the world-famous story, seen by means of the eyes of Cinderella’s stepsister, Elvira. The story follows Elvira as she battles to compete together with her insanely lovely stepsister in a kingdom the place magnificence is a brutal enterprise. She’s going to go to any lengths to catch the prince’s eye.
Blichfeldt instructed Selection that she “instantly recognized (with Elvira) after rediscovering the Brothers Grimm model of Cinderella wherein the stepsister cuts off her toes to make the shoe match. With this ‘magnificence horror’ I wish to seduce the viewers right into a ‘girl-dreaming-of-marrying-the-prince-fairytale’, earlier than revealing its true and uncooked insides. It’s time the ugly stepsister’s story is lifted from the shadows of Cinderella, and cultivated as the enduring feminist narrative of the tyranny of magnificence that it’s.“
Newcomer Lea Myren makes her function performing debut as Elvira, sharing the display screen with Thea Sofie Loch Naess (The Final Kingdom) and Ane Dahl Torp (The Wave).
An announcement offered by Memento Worldwide, which offered the venture to potential distributors on the upcoming Cannes Movie Market final yr, mentioned Blichfeldt’s “distinctive tackle the basic everyone knows is equally humorous, daring, surprising and destined to be cult for a technology. It’s extremely up to date in its exploration of what one is keen to do to fulfill society’s imposed magnificence requirements on ladies. Emilie is lastly giving a voice to the underdog in a really entertaining manner, permitting audiences worldwide to attach together with her.“ The Ugly Stepsister secured a distribution cope with the Shudder streaming service.
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