It’s solely day two on the Sundance Movie Competition and we’re already getting experiences that considered one of their Midnight picks has made an viewers member sick.
Whereas Rhys Frake-Waterfield is attempting to make his personal fairy story world to various levels of success, Emilie Blichfeldt has taken her personal horror interpretation of a kids’s story and made it her personal. Her film The Ugly Stepsister (an adaptation of Cinderella) reportedly made somebody sick sufficient to spew within the theater aisle at Sundance.
The information was despatched out by attendee Matt Neglia, proprietor and Editor-In-Chief of the web site Subsequent Greatest Image:
Somebody actually threw up within the aisle through the premiere screening of THE UGLY STEPSISTER at #Sundance. If that’s not a ringing endorsement, I don’t know what’s. However I’ll simply add, this sinister tackle the traditional Cinderella story is grotesque, lovely, and twisted in its… pic.twitter.com/fRhAyJFQed
— Matt Neglia (@NextBestPicture) January 24, 2025
The pageant is usually the primary time an impartial filmmaker will get their film in entrance of essential eyes. A few of these eyes are distribution studios who purchase them and launch them beneath their label. So that you may need to attend to see if The Ugly Stepsister is as ugly as Neglia says it’s. For now, we will provide you with somewhat synopsis in regards to the movie straight from Sundance itself:
“In a fairy-tale kingdom the place magnificence is a brutal enterprise, Elvira battles to compete along with her extremely lovely stepsister, and she is going to go to any size to catch the prince’s eye.
A twisted retelling of Cinderella with ugly constancy to the Grimm-est rendition, The Ugly Stepsister shifts the main focus to stepsister Elvira’s pursuit of magnificence in any respect prices. However the place fairy story Cinderellas have silkworms, this one has tapeworms. For good measure, Norwegian filmmaker Emilie Blichfeldt throws in decomposing corpses, tongue-in-cheek physique horror, and a Nineteenth-century surgical makeover, making a darkly humorous, blithely grotesque debut function. It shrewdly satirizes manufactured magnificence and its industries, promoting physique picture because the means to achieve desirability, success, and social standing. We will’t assist however empathize with Elvira, who’s insecure and drawn into her avaricious mom’s barbaric beautification scheme largely as a method to an finish: acceptance and happiness (ever after). From nostril to toe, the vessel of Elvira’s disturbing transformation is breakout expertise Lea Myren, who provides a heroically dedicated efficiency.” — John Nein
