Fans of vintage horror were buzzing by a recent sighting of a beloved 80s cult icon, whose ghoulish, sexy charm has bewitched audiences for decades. The 73-year-old actress looked chic at LAX.

Sundance: Norwegian director Emilie Blichfeldt swaps tapeworms for silkworms in a gory Grimm Brothers update about the body-horror extremes of the pursuit of beauty.

“Body horror is so much about the audience ... and points back to the contrast between the two characters,” Blichfeldt says. “Elvira is at this very pure place, and she does not know ...

The Norwegian horror film takes things a step further by having its main character, Elvira, battle with her stepsister for the prince’s affection. In The Ugly Stepsister, it’s all about the ...

Set in a fantastical alternate 1900s, The Ugly Stepsister shifts the spotlight to the familiar secondary character of Elvira—but at ... punishing rounds of body horror to alter her appearance.

W ritten and directed by Emilie Blichfeldt, The Ugly Stepsister is a subversive body horror that twists the familiar tale of Cinderella and gives us a psychological beauty-is-pain ...

The Ugly Stepsister” works best when it’s not just merely tweaking but thoroughly elaborating on its source material.

Norwegian writer-director Emilie Blichfeldt’s grotesque reworking of the Cinderella story creates a world where beauty is pain for some women, but life is pain for all of them.

Norwegian director Emilie Blichfeldt on her reframing the Cinderella story as body horror about the bloody pursuit of beauty. "There's only one Cinderella, the rest of us are the ugly stepsister." ...

After the body horror, my favorite thing working on ... In the middle of the film, a character tells Elvira that “it’s the inside that matters” but that she’s brave because “you ...

The horror flick The Ugly Stepsister has made ... Audiences will follow the journey of the main character Elvira, portrayed by Lea Myren. Elvira, the title stepsister, will go to any lengths ...