Rent The Ugly Stepsister (2025)
3.5 of 5 from 63 ratings
1h 45min
- General info
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- Synopsis:
- An impressionable and idealistic young woman dreams of marrying the kingdom's prince but her beautiful stepsister becomes her greatest rival. Increasingly desperate she resorts to extreme measures in a quest for the physical perfection she believes will win the prince's heart.
- Actors:
- Lea Myren, Ane Dahl Torp, Thea Sofie Loch Næss, Flo Fagerli, Isac Calmroth, Malte Gårdinger, Ralph Carlsson, Isac Aspberg, Albin Weidenbladh, Oksana Czerkasyna, Katarzyna Herman, Adam Lundgren, Willy Ramnek Petri, Cecilia Forss, Kyrre Hellum, Agnieszka Zulewska, Staffan Kolhammar, Philip Lenkowsky, Pawel Browczuk, Stanislaw Bukowski
- Directors:
- Emilie Blichfeldt
- Producers:
- Maria Ekerhovd
- Writers:
- Emilie Blichfeldt
- Others:
- Thomas Foldberg, Anne Cathrine Sauerberg
- Aka:
- Den stygge stesøsteren / Cinderella's Stepsister
- Genres:
- Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
- Countries:
- Norway
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 23/02/2026
- Run Time:
- 109 minutes
- Languages:
- Norwegian DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
- Subtitles:
- English
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 1.66:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- New audio commentary with Director Emilie Blichfeldt and Filmmaker Patrik Syversen
- New audio commentary by Meagan Navarro
- This Is My Ball: a new interview with Director Emilie Blichfeldt
- Generational Trauma: a new interview with Actor Lea Myren
- Take Up Space: a new interview with Actor Thea Sofie Loch Næss
- Character and Gore: a new interview with Effects Artist Thomas Foldberg
- The Beauty of Ugly: The Effects of 'The Ugly Stepsister'
- A Cinderella Story: Kat Hughes on 'The Ugly Stepsister'
- Deleted Scene
- Short Films: How Do You Like My Hair? and Sara's Intimate Confessions
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 23/02/2026
- Run Time:
- 109 minutes
- Languages:
- Norwegian DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
- Subtitles:
- English
- DVD Regions:
- Region 0 (All)
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 1.66:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- (0) All
- Bonus:
- New audio commentary with Director Emilie Blichfeldt and Filmmaker Patrik Syversen
- New audio commentary by Meagan Navarro
- This Is My Ball: a new interview with Director Emilie Blichfeldt
- Generational Trauma: a new interview with Actor Lea Myren
- Take Up Space: a new interview with Actor Thea Sofie Loch Næss
- Character and Gore: a new interview with Effects Artist Thomas Foldberg
- The Beauty of Ugly: The Effects of 'The Ugly Stepsister'
- A Cinderella Story: Kat Hughes on 'The Ugly Stepsister'
- Deleted Scene
- Short Films: 'How Do You Like My Hair?' and 'Sara's Intimate Confessions'
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Reviews (1) of The Ugly Stepsister
If the Slipper Fits, You Haven’t Cut Enough Off - The Ugly Stepsister review by griggs
Emilie Blichfeldt’s debut takes the Brothers Grimm version of Aschenputtel — the one where the stepsisters hack bits off their feet to force them into the slipper — and sensibly decides not to look away. It’s brilliant and disgusting in roughly equal measure.
Blichfeldt turns the fairy tale into body horror about beauty standards, male indifference, and the grotesque things women are pushed to do in order to be chosen. Lea Myren is superb as Elvira, enduring one hideous “improvement” after another while her mother bankrolls the nightmare and leaves her husband’s corpse to rot in the next room. Meanwhile the prince’s whole romantic method boils down to a foot fetish: he doesn’t care who the girl is, only whether she fits the shoe. What really gives it teeth is the shift in sympathy.
Cinderella is vain and sly, Elvira is awkward and desperate to belong. It sags slightly in the middle, but for a debut this is smart, nasty work.
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