Snow White: A Tale of Terror (1997) (TV)

Director:

Michael Cohn

Writers (WGA):

Jacob Grimm (story) &
Wilhelm Grimm (story) ...

Release Date:

18 July 1997 (Greece)

Genre:

Fantasy | Horror

Tagline:

The fairy tale is over.

Plot:

Based somewhat more authentically on the Grimm Brothers' story of a young woman who is unliked by her stepmother...

Plot Keywords:

Apple | Stepmother | Crusades | Mirror | Snow White

Awards:

Nominated for 3 Primetime Emmys. Another 4 nominations

Cast

Sigourney Weaver	...	Lady Claudia Hoffman
Sam Neill	...	Lord Friedrich Hoffman
Monica Keena	...	Lilliana 'Lilly' Hoffman
Taryn Davis	...	Little Lilliana 'Lilly' Hoffman
Gil Bellows	...	Will
Brian Glover	...	Lars
David Conrad	...	Peter Gutenberg
Anthony Brophy	...	Rolf
Frances Cuka	...	Nannau
Chris Bauer	...	Konrad (as Christopher Bauer)
John Edward Allen	...	Bart
Miroslav Táborský	...	Gustav
Andrew Tiernan	...	Scar
Bryan Pringle	...	Father Gilbert
Dale Wyatt	...	Maidservant Elsa

Also Known As:

Snow White (USA) (short title)
Snow White in the Black Forest
Snow White in the Dark Forest
Snow White: A Tale of Terror (Canada: English title)
The Grimm Brothers' Snow White

MPAA:

Rated R for some horror violence and a scene of sexuality.

Runtime:

100 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Iceland:12 | Netherlands:16 | Spain:18 | Portugal:M/16 | Australia:M | Finland:K-16 (video premiere) | Germany:12 | Hong Kong:IIB | UK:15 | USA:R | Singapore:PG

Filming Locations:

Barrandov Studios, Krizeneckeho namesti, Prague, Czech Republic

Company:

Polygram Filmed Entertainment

Trivia:

The role of Liliana (Snow White) was originally written with Alicia Silverstone in mind.

Goofs:

Factual errors: The snake that frightens Lilly in the forest is a Boa Constrictor, hardly likely to be living wild in medieval Europe.

Quotes:

Lars: My face, it frightens you?
Lilliana: Yes.
Lars: Scares me, too.

Soundtrack:

Lullay, Lullay

Snow White is truly a dream girl!!

I quite randomly stumbled across this movie the other night on Sci-Fi channel (it's safe to say that I ended up watching this movie simply because I got tired of mindless channel-surfing, meaning: there was nothing else of much interest on the other channels, you get the picture...)

Anyway, I'm SO glad I caught this movie, I thought it was VERY nicely done, one of the best escapist/fantasy movies I've seen in a long time. Due to my channel surfing I inadvertently missed the first few minutes of the movie. No matter, because this movie has such incredible beauty and richness to it (the settings are awesome!) that you are still compelled to watch it, whether you miss a few parts or not.

In many ways my reaction to this movie reminds me of how I felt after seeing the movie "From Hell", the currently playing Johnny Depp/Heather Graham movie about Jack the Ripper. Different stories altogether, of course, but the thread that ties these two movies together is "atmosphere": both movies do a fantastic job of telling a story about a widely known historical or cultural figure, with excellent re-creations of time, place, and atmosphere. (In fact, the atmosphere in "From Hell" is so thick you could cut it with a knife... errr, umm, sorry - perhaps bad choice of words!)

Anyway, Snow White: A Tale of Terror is definitely on my list of "must see" movies. As I mentioned, I missed the first few minutes, so I plan to rent a copy and see the whole thing in its entirety. Oh, and how nice it would be to see it without any commercial interruptions: it was annoying to have the suspense and pacing of this wonderful movie so rudely interrupted by all those commercial breaks.

Finally, while I thought Sigourney Weaver did a knock-out job as the wicked stepmother, I was even more smitten by the performance of Monica Keena as Snow White. I'm amazed at how most of the previous messages herein do not make mention of Monica's performance as the title character. I think it would be a fitting courtesy to express, right here and now, just how beautiful she comes across as Snow White - truly a wonderful, dreamy kind of girl, RIGHT out of a fairy tale! (And reason enough to watch the movie again and again.)