The Ugly Stepsister

"Slyly funny and visually captivating, its scenes move with ease from gross to gorgeous, and from grotesque to magical."

"A squeamish Cinderella story for the feminist body horror age."

"A stylish, graphic fairytale riff."

"Elegant, stylish, and gnarly."

"Hyper-aware of the sexual and patriarchal imagery of Cinderella... Blichfeldt has made an elegant debut."

"A deliciously extreme take on the beloved Cinderella legend."

"Features a scene so graphic our critic couldn’t watch it. The rest, though, is provocative and beguiling."

"The Ugly Stepsister’s grossness feels organic, both to its source material and to our own lives."

"Feverishly funny, gruesomely gross and unrelenting in its satirical critique."

"As gorgeous as it is gruesome."

"Gruesome, hilarious, and definitely not for children."

"One of the best horror films of the decade so far."

"The fun is in the details."

"With her wonderfully expressive eyes, Myren is a revelation."

"An impressively nasty first feature."

"The film’s creative gore alone cannot paper over the ultimate flimsiness of Blichfeldt’s concept."

"A bedtime story for gorehounds of all ages."

"Blichfeldt knows the exact point of queasiness to which she can push an audience and gradually tests how much further she can move that mark."

"Blichtfeldt never comes at beauty standards from a didactic angle... leaving room for the audience to question complicity more broadly."