Michael Gingold’s Best Horror Films of 2025
The studios—one in particular—made a stronger showing than usual in this list of the past year's top terror titles.
Exclusive Interview: “THE UGLY STEPSISTER” writer/director Emilie Blichfeldt talks placing the bloody shoe on the other foot
Utilizing squirm-inducing body horror to represent the aesthetic extremes young women are pressured to achieve, it tells a side of the Cinderella story for those of us without a Fairy Godmother.
Calgary Underground Film Festival 2025 Lineup Is Here!
Highlights of the event’s 22nd annual outing include over 80 different films, a 48-hour movie-making challenge and a special screening of CLOWN IN A CORNFIELD.
Poster premiere: The agony of the feet in “THE UGLY STEPSISTER”
The new art highlights one of the Grimm sides of the Cinderella story–but far from the only one.
BUFF ’25 Movie Review: “THE UGLY STEPSISTER” is a grim, grisly and pretty great fairy tale
Blichfeldt is able to pointedly and scarily address her of-the-moment themes without breaking the finely crafted period spell her movie casts.
