It’s at all times an indication of an excellent horror film when it’s making audiences squirm and even vomit of their seats, and this yr’s first horror film to satisfy these excessive requirements has already been unleashed upon the world. It’s titled The Ugly Stepsister, a physique horror twist on the basic Cinderella fairytale that simply premiered on the Sundance Movie Pageant final evening.
In response to a report from Selection that particulars the sights and sounds of Sundance’s opening evening, “It was additionally clear that Sundance nonetheless favors the daring and doesn’t draw back from screening movies which will illicit sturdy reactions. Throughout the premiere of the opening Sundance Midnight film The Ugly Stepsister, a moviegoer leaned over into the aisle and vomited.”
The outlet additional particulars the vomitous content material, “Emilie Blichfeldt’s physique horror movie consists of a number of difficult-to-watch scenes of crude beauty surgical procedure, together with its protagonist consuming a tapeworm, stitching in eyelashes and enduring a barbaric rhinoplasty.”
However is there any reality to this report or is it little greater than film advertising and marketing? Nicely, Bloody Disgusting’s head critic Meagan Navarro was really available in the course of the screening of The Ugly Stepsister at Sundance final evening, and he or she has verified Selection’s eye-catching report!
Meagan tweets, “My evaluation for The Ugly Stepsister, a gnarly physique horror twist on Cinderella, is now reside on @BDisgusting. Briefly, I cherished it, but it surely’s under no circumstances for the squeamish.” She provides, “Simply ask the poor soul who barfed on the #Sundance premiere final evening.”
As Meagan explains in her evaluation, “Blichfeldt employs traditionally correct medical procedures to nice stomach-churning impact, delivering graphic physique horror by means of unflinching surgical procedures and self-harm, all within the identify of affection. The filmmaker refuses to let her viewers look away; every second of Elvira’s ruthless metamorphosis from an ungainly, ugly duckling right into a poised stunner is drawn out to an insufferable diploma and regularly shot in excessive closeups. Magnificence is ache, and The Ugly Stepsister needs you to really feel it on a visceral stage.”
“It’s elegant, trendy, and gnarly,” Meagan provides in her 4-star evaluation.
Within the movie that’s coming to Shudder later this yr, “Elvira prepares to earn the prince’s affection at any price. In a kingdom the place magnificence is a brutal enterprise, Elvira will compete with the gorgeous and enchanting Agnes to develop into the belle of the ball.”
Keep tuned for a Shudder premiere date for The Ugly Stepsister.
My evaluation for THE UGLY STEPSISTER, a gnarly physique horror twist on Cinderella, is now reside on @BDisgusting. Briefly, I cherished it, but it surely’s under no circumstances for the squeamish.
Simply ask the poor soul who barfed on the #Sundance premiere final evening. pic.twitter.com/fmTB1wAU9n
— Meagan Navarro (@HauntedMeg) January 24, 2025
