'If The Shoe Doesn't Fit': The Ugly Stepsister at Watershed

'If The Shoe Doesn't Fit': The Ugly Stepsister at Watershed

By Ziggy Himsworth, Second Year EnglishThanks to Watershed, I got to catch Emilie Blichfeldt’s 2025 The Ugly Stepsister (Den Stygge Stesøsteren) before it's theatrical release. This film is the bloody answer to the question that gnaws back at you from the mirror: how much discomfort, how much pain can I stand to inflict upon myself, to escape this body that I’m tethered to? The Cinderella tale, to my mind, was always meant to be a body-horror. I…

The Ugly Stepsister (2025) Film Review

The Norwegian body horror The Ugly Stepsister is a twisted take on Cinderella, following the turbulent (and rather pain-filled) life of dreamy adolescent Elvira (Lea Myren). Subjected to one beauty contraption after another by her iron-fisted mother, Rebekka (Ane Dahl Torp), Elvira is heavily insecure in the face of her Cinderella-like stepsister Agnes (Thea Sofie Loch Næss).

PFS SpringFest 2025: The Baltimorons and The Ugly Stepsister - ScullyVision

The Baltimorons (dir. Jay Duplass) The main point of comparison I’ve been seeing for The Baltimorons are Linklater’s Sunrise/Sunset movies, in which two people, through unplanned circumstances, end up spending a day together and reaching some profound truth about life, love, and themselves. Welp, it’s time to come clean about my cinephile bonafides: I’ve never seen those movies. I’ve always wanted to (and I’m pretty sure I own the DVDs from back…