Snow White: Tale of Terror | Sigourney Weaver, Sam Neill

Snow White: Tale of Terror | Sigourney Weaver, Sam Neill | A Disturbing Piece

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	Snow White: Tale of Terror Sigourney Weaver, Sam Neill Polygram USA Video, 1998 average customer review:based on 76 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

twisted, but pleasingly so!

This is a great turn on the whole "poor-little-princess-lost-in-the-woods-with-seven-little-men-who-just-take-her-in-with-no- questions-asked" thing.In this delightful movie, the seven dwarves arent small and cute at all! They are all scar riddeled men, who have been unjustly punished by those in power, and are hiding in the woods to excape execution. Snow Whites step Mother tries to be nice, and generally is, untill a stillborne baby makes her go phyco, and her magic mirror warps her mind into thinking she can get the baby back by going on a killing spree. Prince Charming, is a nieve goody two shoes, who is sleeping with the Evil step mother, but yet dosen't smudge his poor little choir boy image. Snow White ends up falling in love with one of the seven "dwarves" (he's realy hot) and after he saves her from her early apple induced coffin, they both go and rescue her father, while the evil queen goes down in flames, her creepy little resurected baby by her side! This movie is A*W*E*S*O*M*E !

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A Disturbing Piece

You know the story...or do you? This take on the classic tale is dark and gothic. They don't make films like these anymore. Today, over-the-top gore is the thing.This is scary in a different way.It is disturbing and eerie(SPOILER: Especially the concept of the Queen with her stillborn son).
Sigourney Weaver gives her best performance since ALIEN.She takes on a role of madness and edge of your seat insanity. The way she talks into her mirror is so dramatic and expressive.The beautifully designed mirror's expression is evermore the same.
The girl who plays Lillian,a.k.a. Snow White, is wonderful. How many girls her age can show fear through her eyes.She shows her best in the ending scene.
This is an excellent achievement in horror. It is beautifully filmed and professionally directed. The music makes each scene unique and suspenceful(excluding the parts with the seven miners(a.k.a. dwarves)A must see.

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This movie is fantastic.

This is by far the best version of the classic fairy tale ever created. Sigourney Weaver is fantastic as Snow White's evil sorcereress step-mother - driven to madness by the thurst to be flawless.

True Fairy Tale

The Grimm fairy tales were written to teach children and adults lessons. They were created not to have happy endings, but teach a lesson on life. If we were to go back to the days we would see all our beloved Disney fairytales with gruesome endings.
This movie puts the Grimm tale into a realistic view of the story. It's completed without the chintzy blood and guts of horror/slasher films, but with the subtle and dark gothic images from the scenes in the forest to those heightened events in the castle.

Sigourney Weaver was excellent in this film because her portrayal of the evil Queen made you hate her and feel for her at the same time. It's almost as if the circumstances are what made her act the way she did. It's not your children's fairy tale. It is a dark movie told the way it was told when it was originally written.

I really enjoy films that make you think and draw you in. This film was excellent. However, if you are looking for a horror film with lots of blood, guts, gore and fighting typical of a slasher/horror film - this is not the movie for you. If you like a good storytelling with a few twists in magic and character, you will love this movie.

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Mirror, Mirror... Who is the Scariest of All?

This version of the classic story stars Sigourney Weaver and Sam Neill and is far from the cheery animated version you may be familiar with..

Sam Neill plays Lillian's father. After the death of his wife he marries Sigourney Weaver. Things are fine at first but the aging Weaver begins to feel jealousy towards her step-daughter. She feels she is in competition for her husband's affections. With the help of her mysterious magic mirror (a frightening piece of furniture if I ever saw one) she begins making plans to be number one.

But as Weaver makes her plans she also begins to sink into deeper and deeper madness as she eliminates the servants, her step-daughter and even her brother. But Lillian manages to survive and meets a band of outlaw miner's hoping to find a rich strike. She manages to win their hearts in time and eventually returns to challenge her step-mother.

This is a very dark telling of the Snow White story. It is more tragic than many tellings in that the step-mother is mad and not evil. The girl who plays Lillian is excellent. Her ability to show powerful emotion with a single look really adds to the atmosphere of this dark film.

If you are interested in seeing a good dark tale then Snow White could be just what you are looking for.

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