Wishing for a fairy-tale life quickly gets a masochistic undertone. Just read any story by the Brothers Grimm. Or watch Emilie Blichfeldt’s feature debut! In this vicious, rollicking body-horror variation on Cinderella, stepsister Elvira is at the center of events. To thwart the social decline of her family and especially her unscrupulous mother, she embarks on a relentless aesthetic-surgery regimen to curry favor with the prince. As luck would have it, the age of once-upon-a-time boasts not only a beauty doctor—whose methods are admittedly rather crude—but also an equally effective and vile Ozempic alternative. (Matthias Eckkrammer)