10 More Movies That Had The Balls To Do It Better (& WANTED YOU TO KNOW)

And finally we have the most recent entry on this list, The Ugly Stepsister.

Emilie Blichfeldt's sublime body horror film is a gnarly reworking of the Cinderella fairy tale - a rebuke to the more sanitised Disney adaptations of the story, instead drawing influence from Aschenputtel, the darker version penned by the Brothers Grimm in 1812.

Now, a bleaker, nastier Cinderella story isn't inherently better, but The Ugly Stepsister offers up a far more nuanced depiction of all the central characters, especially downtrodden stepsister Elvira (Lea Myren) and the film's iteration of Cinderella, Agnes (Thea Sofie Loch Næss).

The real triumph here is how the movie focuses on society's tendency to pit women against one another, competing to be more beautiful and chase resources which, in this case, are the marital hand of a man.

It's hardly surprising that Disney's animated and live-action Cinderella adaptations had little interest in exploring such themes, but for anyone keen to dig into a richer, grimier, more grounded take on the material, The Ugly Stepsister leaves all other Cinderella movies in the dust.