Reviews of the Bosch

Everybody knows that the Disney versions of fairy tales -in most cases the most popular versions in the general consciousness- are sanitized heavily from their original forms. Stories like Cinderella , which has been around for several centuries, were intended as morality tales not family entertainments. Taken in that context, as well as in the context of history and from an alternate perspective, the stories can actually be quite horrifying. There actually isn’t a lot that Emilie Blichfeldt invented out of whole cloth for The Ugly Stepsister . The Norwegian body horror film that essentially just tells the Cinderella story from the point-of-view of one of the stepsisters of the titular character, changing the story little but amplifying its tonal extremes and adapting them in visceral ways, is one of the more revealing illustrations of how bizarre and deranged those fairy tales could really be. It also opines to critique the moral coding of such tales as they relate to conventional sta...