Debra Euler wrote:
> In my recollection, it's an enjoyable but flawed movie. Definitely
> worth a rental, however.
Agreed. I saw it as a rental, so I wasn't too upset. I was also, at
that time, on the run of the mill "teenage-boy-horror-flix-fix" and I
think I rented everything from _The Exorcist_ to _Killer Klowns from
Outer Space_. _In the Company of Wolves_ made it in there somewhere,
and I was gleefully happy with making a blind rental of it...
> My favorite story from "The Bloody Chamber"
> is the Bluebeard tale where the foolish young bride's mother, riding
> astride with her hair unbound , comes to rescue her daughter from her
> gilded prison.
Oh, that sounds good...I'm going to have break down and buy the Carter
one day...
> And just out in video stores is an interesting big-budget new version
> of "Snow White," originally shown on Showtime last summer, with
> Sigourney Weaver as the "evil stepmother" and Sam Neill as the
> father.
I've seen bits and pieces of this on cable, and keep kicking myself for
not keeping my eyes open for it. The title can be a mess - it has
three: "Snow White: A Tale of Terror" (which is the title I keep seeing
on cable), "The Grimm Brothers' Snow White" (supposedly the 'official'
title) and "Snow White in the Black Forest."
Possible spoliers.
I've enjoyed what I've seen, and while I agree that Claudia (Weaver's
character) tries to be nice to Lili (Snow White Lili is the full name),
she does it in a way that attempts to supplant Lili's mother - which is
where, I think, Lili becomes rather obnoxious. Claudia believes that
she has is, completely, queen now, and that makes her think of herself
as Lili's "new" mother.
I agree that Lili overreacts, and probably drives her stepmother
(amongst other things - like that crazy mirror and the stillbirth) to
the brink...now if I can ever see it in its entirety, I'd be a happy
camper.
- Geoffrey
-- Why did the chicken cross the road? Dan Quayle: "Ite sawe ae potatoe"
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