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The slasher genre has had a long and enduring journey in the film industry, and now it finally has the recognition it deserves. As there are millions of fans and it almost always performs wonderfully at the box office, that’s why we have decided to compile a list of the best slasher films you can find on Netflix. So, if you are a fan of the slasher genre and love all the blood and gore, these seven films on Netflix are a must-watch for you.

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Scream VI is a slasher horror thriller film co-directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett from a screenplay co-written by James Vanderbilt and Guy Busick. The 2023 film is the sixth installment in the long-running Scream film franchise and a direct sequel to the 2022 film Scream. It is set in New York,...

Stars: Lea Myren, Ane Dahl Torp, Thea Sofie Loch Næss, Flo Fagerli, Isac Calmroth, Malte Gårdinger, Ralph Carlsson | Written and Directed by Emilie Blichfeldt

Making her feature debut, Norwegian writer/director Emilie Blichfeldt serves up this body horror version of the Cinderella story, presented from the perspective of the titular ugly stepsibling. As such, it’s an inspired twist, taking a razor-sharp scalpel to impossible beauty standards and delivering buckets of vomit-worthy gore moments.

Set in a Scandinavian fairy-tale land, The Ugly Stepsister‘s story centres on plump, unattractive Elvira (Lea Myren), who arrives at the mansion owned by her mother’s new husband, only for him to immediately drop dead during their first family meal together. With her mother, Rebekka (Agnieszka Zulewska), now in charge, the stepfather’s beautiful daughter Agnes (the splendidly named Thea Sofie Loch Næss), is quickly reduced to the status of general servant and nicknamed Cinderella.

With the surprise crossover success of Coralie Fargeat’s Cannes body-horror hit The Substance last year, there was a lot of blather about how the Academy was finally ready to cozy up to genre films. Now, as if to test that thesis, up pops this extraordinary film from Norway, an extreme fairytale that premiered at Sundance and explores similar themes of female desire and self-esteem but pushes things so much, much further with the odd (really) graphic sex scene and squeamish depictions of body modification. Emilie Blichfeldt’s dark, funny, provocative film could easily lose a few of these moments to find a (slightly) more mainstream audience than it will end up attracting. But to her credit, she goes all in, and her audaciously militant vision suggests a director whose name is soon to be catnip for actors who like to pester their agents for challenging new projects.

As the title suggests,...

Editor’s note: This review was originally published during the 2025 Sundance Film Festival. “The Ugly Stepsister” opens in theaters Friday, April 18.

It’s tough times out there for a feminist body horror fairy tale in a newly post-“Substance” filmmaking world. Coralie Fargeat’s gory parable of the abyss of self-loathing at the center of women’s society-stoked quest for beauty upped the stakes in terms of the genre’s potential cultural reach.

But female genre directors have been responding to impossible, often body-contorting standards of beauty for decades. Enter Norwegian filmmaker Emilie Blichfeldt, who makes her gruesome entrée into that movement with her playfully grotesque feature debut “The Ugly Stepsister.” One character’s name being Sophie von Kronenberg in this stylized gothic retelling of the Grimm Brothers’ spin on Cinderella should offer enough portent for where the film is heading in all its nose-breaking, flesh-eating, tapeworm-infested grandeur.

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The Ugly Stepsister gets its first trailer, previewing the twisted new take on Cinderella with a glowing score on Rotten Tomatoes. Directed by Emilie Blichfeldt, the upcoming body horror film follows Lea Myren's Elvira, a young woman who begins to take drastic measures to alter her appearance as she competes against her beautiful stepsister in a realm where looks are everything. Despite making an audience member vomit at its Sundance premiere earlier this year due to a few extremely graphic scenes, The Ugly Stepsister reviews have been generally glowing from critics.

Ahead of the film's theatrical release on April 18, Shudder now releases the full trailer for The Ugly Stepsister, providing a new look at some of the movie's stomach-turning body horror sequences. The trailer features a new look at the movie's depiction of a brutal rhinoplasty procedure, as well as another sequence in which a character has new eyelashes sewn in.

There’s a startlingly disturbing moment in Norwegian filmmaker Emilie Blichfeldt’s brilliantly inverted fairy/folk tale, The Ugly Stepsister (orig. Den stygge stesøsteren), where the unfortunate title character, Elvira (Lea Myren), the dutiful daughter of a penniless social climber, undergoes an 18th century version of a rhinoplasty (nasal reconstruction) without an anesthetic of any kind. As the aptly named Dr. Esthétique (Adam Lundgren), a sadistic surgeon, takes hammer and wedge to Elvira’s presumably imperfect nose, each tap echoes loudly on the soundtrack, followed by Elvira’s sharp cry of physical pain, emotional agony, and mental anguish. Following the familiar parameters of narrative cinema, the audience and Elvira, however briefly, are united in her tortured experience. Facing her mother Rebekka's (Ane Dahl Torp) impossible expectations, Elvira will go...

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‘You know there’s got to be something better,” sang the iconic Marianne Faithfull. Similarly Göteborg market’s head of TV Drama Vision Cia Edström and Josef Kullengård, head of industry and Nordic Film Market, were determined to bring “good energy and hope” to their 2,000-plus guests – and not only as DJs of the closing Nordic Film Market gig.

Below are takeaways from the 2025 Nordic Film Market and TV Drama Vision, that took place under the motto “Collaborate, Create and Captivate.”

Farewell – Until Next Year

A new record attendance was set this year, according to preliminary figures released by Kullengård. A total 2,368 on-site delegates from 54 countries were accredited, including 780 for TV Drama Vision and 586 for the Nordic Film Market.

In terms of projects, Nordic Film Market showcased 68 feature-length projects and TV Drama Vision 61 series at various stages of production.

Edström said she is very happy with the numbers for the...

Cinderella's lore gets a Norwegian body-horror update in The Ugly Stepsister. Emilie Blichfeldt's not-so-storybook debut adapts fairy tale royalty like The Great's absurdist satirization but far grimmer and gorier. Fantastic style, squeamish effects, and a standout performance by Lea Myren as the "ugly" Elvira headline this repulsive yet commanding fucked-up fable. Watch out for Blichfeldt, whose first dive into feature filmmaking makes a crimson and authoritative splash.

In The Ugly Stepsister, Elvira (Myren) takes center stage. We all know Disney's version of the story: Prince Charming, a glass slipper, and happily ever afters. Here, Elvira is presented as sweet, lovesick, and doe-eyed. Agnes (Thea Sofie Loch Næss) is our Cinderella fill-in, shunned by her evil stepmother, Rebekka (Ane Dahl Torp). When Prince Julian (Isac Calmroth) alerts the kingdom's virgins he's ready for marriage, Rebekka takes advantage of Elvira's fawning over Julian. Rebekka encourages her daughter through a grueling procession of body augmentations,...

Most fairy tales were told and retold countless times before Walt Disney ever got his hands on them, and yet, the sensibility behind such animated classics as “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” and “Sleeping Beauty” has proven so popular on such an international scale that few know these stories’ darker origins. The family-friendly studio’s more-wholesome-than-horrifying approach gives Norwegian writer-director Emilie Blichfeldt plenty of room to push back with “The Ugly Stepsister,” a deliciously extreme take on the beloved “Cinderella” legend, complete with broken noses, severed toes and other gory details befitting the Grimm bros.

Premiering in the Midnight section of the Sundance Film Festival, the graphic update swipes a different page from the Disney playbook: Instead of focusing on the familiar wench-in-waiting, Blichfeldt recenters her version on one of the tale’s iconic antagonists, finding empathy for the pig-nosed, slightly plump stepsister (played by Lea Myren) who’s...

‘The Ugly Stepsister’ is a comedy horror film directed by Emilie Blichfeldt, reimagining the Cinderella tale as a dark, bloody rivalry between Elvira and her stepsister. Starring Lea Myren and Thea Sofie Loch Næss, it premieres on January 23, 2025, at Sundance’s Midnight Section and will also appear at the Berlin Film Festival.

The movie, an international production, hits Norwegian theaters on March 7, 2025. In a dark and twisted version of Cinderella, Elvira is determined to outshine her beautiful stepsister and win the prince’s attention, no matter the cost.

The story explores her obsession with beauty, featuring tapeworms, decaying bodies, and gruesome 19th-century surgeries. Combining humor and horror, the film critiques the beauty industry’s pressures while evoking sympathy for Elvira, who is caught in her mother’s extreme makeover schemes in her quest for love and acceptance.

You can check out the movie’s first official stills below:

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"We'll maintain our course. That's the last thing the Germans expect." Magnolia Pictures has revealed an official US trailer for a Norwegian WWII survival action thriller film called The Arctic Convoy, originally titled just Konvoi in Norwegian. This opened in Norway first late last year with a theatrical release, now it's getting a US release (direct-to-vod) in late July this summer. Who wants to enjoy chilly, freezing cold WWII cargo ship thriller in the middle of summer? Here you go. Summer 1941: Hitler seems unstoppable, invading the Soviet Union. Convoys of cargo ships with war materials began the perilous journey over to Murmansk. Ordinary sailors facing German superiority in the icy Arctic sea with their lives at stake. In 1942, the leader of a convoy carrying vital military supplies to a Norwegian outpost decides to proceed through treacherous, enemy-infested waters despite the recall of their military escort. 35 civilian ships brave brutal...

Half a century ago, Universal Pictures hoped to carry over the success of its entries in the short-lived disaster film vogue to naval combat movies, stirring some box office if few other rewards via dullish “Midway” and “Gray Lady Down,” which felt like bloated retro B-movies. Having revived the disaster genre with trilogy “The Wave,” “The Quake” and “The Burning Sea,” their Norwegian producers seem to be going the same route with “The Arctic Convoy,” about the perilous voyage of a freighter delivering supplies to Allies on the eastern front during World War 2.

The fact-inspired story’s central situation is compelling enough. But director/co-writer Henrik M. Dahlsbakken (of recent biopic “Munch”) delivers a middling effort too sparing of excitement to satisfy action fans, and without the character depth or involvement to score as drama instead. Released on the film’s home turf at Christmas, the competent but uninspired Scandinavian...

Warning: mentions of murder and suicide.

The Swedish horror movie The Conference follows a team-building retreat that turns deadly when a masked killer starts killing attendees. The identity of the killer is revealed, along with dark secrets from some team members, as the plot unfolds. The killer seeks revenge against those responsible for destroying his father's farm and commits murder before targeting the project team.

The Swedish horror movie The Conference follows a team-building conference that goes horribly wrong as a masked killer sets out to kill every one of the attendees, and the identity of the killer takes everyone by surprise. Netflix has a wide catalog of international movies from different genres, and joining the fun is The Conference (Konferensen). Directed by Patrik Eklund and based on the novel of the same name by Mats Strandberg, The Conference is a slasher movie that gives a violent twist to team-building...

"You can't run a conference facility without Wi-Fi." Netflix has revealed an official trailer for a Swedish slasher horror comedy called The Conference, made by Swedish filmmaker Patrik Eklund. It's debuting for streaming worldwide starting in October, which is the best time to launch a film like this, of course. What begins as team-building fun, descends into a nightmare as a mysterious masked killer begins stalking and picking off the participants one by one. A conference for municipal employees turns into a nightmare when accusations of corruption begin to circulate, and a strange figure starts murdering the attendees one-by-one. The Conference is a slasher comedy that is based on Mats Strandbergs book by the same name. Starring Eva Melander, Katia Winter, Adam Lundgren, Lola Zackow, and Christoffer Nordenrot. Looks like another fun spin on slashers, with most of the attendees being municipal schmucks it seems. Check this out. // Continue Reading...

Next month’s Friday the 13th continues its streak for being one of the year’s busiest days for horror. The latest to land the coveted spot for release is Netflix‘s The Conference, and the new trailer promises a killer great time.

Look for The Conference exclusively on Netflix on October 13, 2023.

The slasher comedy is “about a teambuilding conference attended by municipal employees that spirals into a nightmare when accusations of corruption begin to circulate and plague the work environment. Simultaneously, a mysterious figure begins stalking and murdering the participants, one-by-one in this Swedish comedy slasher with warm, humoristic characters.”

It’s based on Mats Strandberg’s book of the same name.

The Conference is directed by Patrik Eklund and written by Thomas Moldestad. It stars Eva Melander, Katia Winter, and Adam Lundgren. Winter previously stared in Banshee Chapter, “Sleepy Hollow,” and “The Boys.”

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Netflix is re-teaming with Sf Studios on “The Conference,” a high-concept Swedish comedy slasher film based on a novel by Mats Strandberg, one of Scandinavia’s most successful horror writers.

Patrik Eklund (“We Got This”) directed the film with a cast led by Katia Winter (“Sleepy Hollow”), Adam Lundgren (“Hilma”) and Eva Melander (“Border”).

Penned by Thomas Moldestad, the movie revolves around a team-building conference attended by municipal employees which spirals into a nightmare when accusations of corruption begin to circulate and plague the work environment. Simultaneously, a mysterious figure begins stalking and murdering the participants one-by-one.

Sf Studios, which previously delivered “Snabba Cash,” “Red Dot,” “Loving Adults” and “Ehrengard” for Netflix, is producing the film which is slated to be released globally on the streamer later this year. The shoot recently wrapped.

Strandberg is also an executive producer of film. His books have been published in over 30 countries. His successful book “The Circle,...

Swedish thriller series “Hostage,” which is being distributed by Global Screen, centers on the hijacking of a passenger aircraft, and the arrest of a Syrian academic by Swedish intelligence agency Sapo. Variety spoke to the show’s director Karen Fahlén, and Jonas Karlsson, who stars alongside Liv Mjönes and Adam Lundgren.

The six-part series is a sequel to 10-part crime drama “Stockholm Requiem,” which was based on Kristina Ohlsson’s novels based around the detective Fredrika Bergman. Fahlén directed “Stockholm Requiem,” which also starred Karlsson and Mjönes. Karlsson reprises the character he played in “Stockholm Requiem,” police chief Alex Recht, and Mjönes (“Midsommar”) reprises her character from the earlier show, Fredrika Bergman.

In the new show, we find that Recht has left the police force, and is driving a cab. He is shambolic, and his spirit appears to have been broken. “He’s in no-man’s land,” Karlsson says. “Life sucks.

Tom Wlaschiha and Jazzy de Lisser (“Game of Thrones”) have joined the cast of Viaplay’s major English-language original feature “Hilma.” The film is written and directed by Lasse Hallström, the Oscar-nominated director of “The Cider House Rules” and “My Life as a Dog.”

The biopic, which explores the life of revolutionary Swedish artist and feminist pioneer Hilma af Klint, will bow this fall in theaters and on Viaplay, Scandinavia’s leading streaming service.

Wlaschiha stars as Rudolf Steiner, the Austrian artist and founder of the anthroposophical spiritual movement. Steiner became a key figure and mentor for Hilma af Klint who created more than a thousand striking paintings, sketches and watercolors that remained largely unknown until decades after her death.

The film explores the enigmatic life of Klint, who navigated through a male-dominated artistic scene to eventually become one of the Western world’s first abstract artists.

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Lisa Farzaneh and Jesper W Nielsen’s new production, staged by Nice Drama in association with Twelve Town, will premiere on Viaplay later this year. In a press release published recently, Nent Group disclosed important details about one of its new productions, an eight-part thriller series entitled Max Anger – With One Eye Open. The project, currently in production, is based on Martin Österdahl’s book Ask No Mercy (2016), the first instalment in a trilogy focusing on former special-ops soldier Max Anger, here played by Adam Lundgren. Lisa Farzaneh (the TV series Quicksand and Agent Hamilton) and Jesper W Nielsen are attached to direct the series, whilst Mikael Newihl (the TV series The Lawyer and Black Widows) served as the head writer. Other screenwriters are Anders Sparring, Pauline Wolff, Åsa Anderberg Strolle and Jörgen Hjerdt. The story is set in tumultuous 1990s-era Russia and centres...

Bronze Horse for best film goes to The Selfish Giant. More wins for Fruitvale Station, Miss Violence and Screen Star of Tomorrow George MacKay.Scroll down for full list of winners

UK film The Selfish Giant has picked up the Bronze Horse for best film at the 24th Stockholm Film Festival (Nov 6-17).

It marks the second consecutive year a film by a female director has won the top prize at Stockholm, after Cate Shortland’s Lore picked up the award last year.

The film, about two young friends who gather scrap metal for cash, was described by the jury as “a uniquely complete film. Shattering, to the point, poetic, believable, delicate, humorous. The sensitive interaction between the two main actors has resulted in the most touching portrayal of friendship we’ve seen in film. Only someone hard-hearted could fail to love this film.”

The Selfish Giant, which debuted at Cannes, is represented...

She Monkeys / Apflickorna Trailer. Lisa Aschan‘s She Monkeys / Apflickorna (2011) movie stars Mathilda Paradeiser, Linda Molin, Isabella Lindquist, Sergej Merkusjev, and Adam Lundgren. She Monkeys / Apflickorna‘s plot synopsis: “When Emma meets Cassandra, they initiate a relationship filled with physical and psychological challenges. Emma does whatever it takes to master the rules of the game. Lines are crossed and the stakes get higher and higher. Despite this, Emma can’t resist the intoxicating feeling of total control.”

The fact that both of the girls are in competition with each other yet one girl seems to hate and like the other girl at the same time will make for a cool dynamic on screen.

I found the tone of the film to be far closer to Celine Schiamma’s Water Lilies than that of Moodysson’s Fukcing Amal (Show Me Love). It’s tightly wound 80 minutes is centered around the budding...

Reviewed by Randee Dawn

(April 2011, screening at the 2011 Tribeca Film Festivl)

Directed by: Lisa Aschan

Written by: Josefine Adolfsson and Lisa Aschan

Starring: Mathilda Paradeiser, Linda Molin, Isabella Lindquist, Sergej Merkusjev, Adam Lundgren and Sigmund Hovind

Sugar and spice and everything nice? If that’s the image you have of best girlfriends, “She Monkeys” will set you straight. A stark look into the world of two teen girls in Sweden experimenting in just about all ways possible with power, sexuality and morals, “She Monkeys” draws audiences into this mysterious relationship — which can seem more like frenemies than friends.

Enigmatic Emma (Mathilda Paradeiser, resembling a younger Chloë Sevigny) meets the slightly older and conventionally prettier Cassandra (Linda Molin) at the equestrian acrobatics club. (Indie film 101: Be sure to include an obscure, metaphorical hobby for your leads.) The two are natural competitors but quickly forge a strange and almost too-close friendship:...

Reviewed by Randee Dawn

(April 2011, screening at the 2011 Tribeca Film Festivl)

Directed by: Lisa Aschan

Written by: Josefine Adolfsson and Lisa Aschan

Starring: Mathilda Paradeiser, Linda Molin, Isabella Lindquist, Sergej Merkusjev, Adam Lundgren and Sigmund Hovind

Sugar and spice and everything nice? If that’s the image you have of best girlfriends, “She Monkeys” will set you straight. A stark look into the world of two teen girls in Sweden experimenting in just about all ways possible with power, sexuality and morals, “She Monkeys” draws audiences into this mysterious relationship — which can seem more like frenemies than friends.

Enigmatic Emma (Mathilda Paradeiser, resembling a younger Chloë Sevigny) meets the slightly older and conventionally prettier Cassandra (Linda Molin) at the equestrian acrobatics club. (Indie film 101: Be sure to include an obscure, metaphorical hobby for your leads.) The two are natural competitors but quickly forge a strange and almost too-close friendship:...