Snow White: A Tale Of Terror
DVD cover for Snow White: A Tale Of Terror
Directed by	Michael Cohn
Produced by	Tom Engelman
Written by	Tom Szollosi Deborah Serra
Starring	Sigourney Weaver Sam Neill
Music by	John Ottman
Cinematography	Mike Southon
Editing by	Ian Crafford
Distributed by	Gramercy Pictures
Release date(s)	July 18, 1997
Running time	100 min.
Country	USA
Language	English
Budget	Unknown

Snow White: A Tale of Terror is a 1997 horror film based on the Snow White fairy tale. 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." The film received mixed reviews but is praised for staying with the dark formulas that were once present in fairy tales.

Contents 1 Plot summary 2 Awards 3 Main cast 4 External links

[edit] Plot summary

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, and wolves that caused the accident attack the horses and the coachman. Her husband, Friederick Hoffman, is forced to perform a caesarean 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 then 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 kills 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 Will, seemingly dead on the ground from the bite of the apple. Dr. Peter Gutenberg, her fiancé, pronounces her dead and the miners hold a burial for her. Seeing her eyes appear to open through te glass coffin, Will halts the ceremony, pulls Lilly's body from the glass coffin, and shakes her, causing the piece of apple lodged in her throat to fall out and for her to wake up. Gutenberg takes Lilly back to the castle, where they find that Will has followed to help fight Claudia. 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.

[edit] Awards

Weaver's critically-acclaimed performance earned her an Emmy Award-nomination as well as a Screen Actors Guild-nomination as Outstanding Lead Actress in a TV Movie. The film also earned two Emmy nominations for Makeup and Costume Design.

[edit] Main cast

Actor	Role
Sigourney Weaver	Lady Claudia Hoffman
Sam Neill	Lord Friederick Hoffman
Monica Keena	Lilly Hoffman
Gil Bellows	Will
David Conrad	Dr. Peter Gutenberg
Miroslav Taborsky	Gustav
Brian Glover	Lars
Andrew Tiernan	Scar
Anthony Brophy	Rolf
Chris Bauer	Conrad
Frances Cuka	Nannau
Taryn Davis	Young Lilly
Joanna Roth	Lilliana Hoffman

[edit] External links

• Snow White: A Tale of Terror at the Internet Movie Database
• Snow White: A Tale of Terror at Allmovie

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