SNOW WHITE - A TALE OF TERROR

SNOW WHITE – A TALE OF TERROR

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Snow White: A Tale of Terror is a 1997 horror film based on the Snow White story. It stars Sigourney Weaver and Sam Neill. The original music score is composed by John Ottman. The film is marketed with the tagline "The fairy tale is over."

SYNOPSIS

Lilliana Hoffman is the birth mother of the young girl, Lilly, who is later known as "Snow White". Lilliana Hoffman dies in a carriage accident. Her husband, Friederick Hoffman, is forced to perform a c-section to save his unborn daughter. The story then picks up a few years later, with the young Lilly Hoffman playing on the grounds of the Hoffman castle. She is brought inside to meet her new stepmother, Lady Claudia, whom Lilly instantly dislikes. Claudia gives Lilly a small bird and a small dog, both of which become monsters and turn against Lilly later after Claudia decides to kill her.

Claudia and Lilly vie for Friederick's attention and affections, and as Lilly grows into womanhood, Claudia deliberately keeps her dressed unbecomingly and the tension between the two women continues to grow inexorably. After Lilly tells Claudia what she thinks of her, Claudia gives birth to a stillborn baby boy, for which she blames Lilly. The doctor informs Claudia she can never have another child and the evil hidden deep inside Claudia comes to the surface. Claudia orders her mute brother to kill Lilly in the woods, but he fails and hides the truth from Claudia. When Claudia learns the truth she destroys him for his failure. Lilly escapes into the forest where she is found by seven roughneck and combative miners who grudgingly give her shelter. Their unofficial leader, Will, also manages to woo and eventually fall in love with Lilly.

When Claudia discovers that Lilly is still alive, she uses sorcery to try and kill her off, all the while keeping Friederick infirm, finding a way to resurrect her son, and afflicting the entire palace entourage with the plague by poisoning the food.

Claudia transforms herself into the kindly-seeming old peddlar woman who gives Lilly the poisoned apple in the woods. The story culminates with Lilly being found by her former fiancé, Dr. Peter Gutenberg, and led back to the castle. Claudia kills the doctor and again attempts to kill Lilly, while holding her newly-revived baby boy. Lilly manages to find Claudia's weakness, destroying the evil mirror, and thus her stepmother. Lilly leaves the castle, alive, with Will and her father.

ISSUE : UN NATURAL MOTHERHOOD

An adult version of the fairytale. Very dark and seductive and sometimes a little sickening. The tradtional tale and a deeper look into the character of the evil stepmother/witch and a little more realistic then the cartoon version. Mentioned the word Snow White and immediately we focus on the wicked and dreadful stepmother. Although there were many versions of Snow White available, in majority of the cases the storyline was linear to the one tailored by Jacob Grimm and Wilhem Grimm in 1902 and the adaptation of the movie 'Snow White- A Tale of Horror was consistent with the writing of both the author which evolves on the unnatural motherhood.