Sure, her father (Tyler McKenna) and mother (Kelly Tappan), rightful rulers of her Kingdom, are dead, and she lives with her stepmother, the Evil Queen (Chelsea Edmundsen) now, butby and large, Snow White (Sanae Loutsis) lives a pretty carefree life, with her thoughts mostly with the Prince (Tristan Binder), whom she's too shy to even address - until today at the fair that is - and that's exactly the day when the Evil Queen decides to show her true colours and has one of her friends(Hailey Stubblefield) killed before Snow's very eyes, just to be able to later bathe in her blood. The queen also wants to get hold of Show White as she figures eating her heart will give her absolute power, but Show escapes with a friend (Holland Stull), who falls victim to a horde of tree monsters then. Snow is captured by the queens huntsmen, but saved by the seven dwarves (Ali Mauri, Michael De Santo II, Jeremy Hallam, Dillon Moore, Eric Pope, Colin Miller, Risa Mei), once her parents' loyal servants but now outcasts. The dwarves take her in, but then go to save the prince and his search party from the tree monsters, and in the meantime, the queen, dressed up as an old hag (and played by Meredith Binder), sneaks into the dwarves' house and pretty much forces Snow to eat a poisoned apple, then drags her body back to the palace with her for a blood sacrifice. And now it's up to the prince and the dwarves to not only save her from the queen's castle that's heavily guarded plus the queen's witchcraft  isn't something to be trifled with, either. And on top of all of this, it needs somebody to sacrifice their life to even revive the girl ...

While Disney of late iis having more and more trouble finding the essence of the originals in their live action remakes of their animated classics - and 2025's Snow White might be the nadir of that development -, indie and foreign producers take a much more imaginative approach to presenting centuries old stories in new clothes to modern audiences, by tracking their source material to their roots and affording them new, not necessarily family-friendly interpretations. The Ugly Stepsister would be a good example of this, and likewise is The Death of Snow White: Without changing the original story too drastically, this is more horror than fairy tale, with monsters, dismemberment, blood-splashing and the like. And still, this isn't just a mndless gore-fest let alone a gross-out parody, it actually manages to tell its solid story rather stringently, carried by visuals that are either vibrant or disturbing (or both) in all the right places. and by a solid ensemble cast. And all of this results in a very entertaining piece of dark fantasy for sure.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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