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Rating: Not Rated
Stars: Sanae Loutsis, Chelsea Edmundson, Tristan Nokes, Meredith Binder, Ali Imauri, Colin Miller, Dillon Moore, Jeremy Hallam, Michael DeSanto II, Risa Mei, Eric Pope, Kelly Tappan, Tyler McKenna
Writers: Jason Brooks & Naomi Mechem-Miller, based on the story by the Brothers Grimm
Director: Jason Brooks
Distributor: Atlas Entertainment
Release Date: April 18, 2025

On the one hand, THE DEATH OF SNOW WHITE has clearly been made with a lot of love and thought put into its creation. On the other hand, tonally and to a lesser extent stylistically, it is all over the place.

There’s so much action, with a witch (Meredith Binder), dwarves, and guards at the start of THE DEATH OF SNOW WHITE that viewers may be forgiven for wondering if the reels are mixed up and we’re somehow in the middle of the movie.

No, this is just the witch trying to kill the queen (Kelly Tappan) and her about-to-be-delivered baby. Given exactly what the witch does, it’s surprising the baby survives, but as the queen dies, she asks that her new daughter be named after the snow falling outside the window.

Princess Snow White as a young woman (Sanae Loutsis) is rightly beloved by the commoners, as she does everything that she can to help them. She and Prince Florizel (Tristan Nokes) finally meet at the village fair. Since they’ve been admiring one another from afar for years, it doesn’t take too long for romance to bloom.

But the Evil Queen (Chelsea Edmundson), now sole ruler of the kingdom since the death of Snow White’s father the King (Tyler McKenna), is really unhappy. Everything about Snow White’s existence actively pains the Queen.

The Queen has taken a page from Countess Elizabeth Bathory, and likes to bathe in the blood (and apparently body parts) of young women to maintain her own youth. Still, Her Majesty’s magic mirror, containing not one but multiple spirits, continues to mock her.

While the Queen can’t kill Snow White, as that will cause her to lose the throne (we are never sure exactly how this works), she can put her in a trance. However, the Queen’s attempt to have her huntsmen scoop up the Princess drive Snow into the Dark Forest.

There are seven folks dwelling together there – six dwarves (Risa Mei, Ali Imauri, Jeremy Hallam, Dillon Moore, Michael De Santo II, and Colin Miller) and one very tall fellow called Tiny (Eric Pope) – but they are not miners. Rather, they are skilled fighters, though each has a different specialty: botany, medicine, etc. After a period of suspicion, they realize who Snow is and have reason to trust her.

This is a very gory version of the tale, with people being dismembered, decapitated, cut in half and otherwise bloodily injured. But that’s not what makes THE DEATH OF SNOW WHITE feel so uneven.

On the one hand, we have some great castle sets and forest monsters, and the horror imagery is handled well. There are also some good performances. Director Jason Brooks and cinematographer Kody Newton give everything a suitably misty, storybook look.

But then there is a mixture of accents and line deliveries that keep us from feeling like we’re in a unified environment. Brooks & his co-writer Naomi Mechem-Miller also mix straight period dialogue with contemporary chat about whether a person is someone’s “type,” and have some exchanges that would be fine in a Ren Faire routine but seem a little arch here.

There’s great enthusiasm throughout, and we get the sense that everyone involved is having a wonderful time. Although it is unquestionably a movie, THE DEATH OF SNOW WHITE may be best enjoyed the way one might appreciate a regional stage show where the creators and actors are throwing all sorts of things at the wall and seeing what sticks.

In support of this, we get happy behind-the-scenes footage all the way through the closing credits.

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