Deadly serious psychosexual rethinking of the previously Disneyfied
chestnut, with the Seven Dwarves as a group of filthy miners who slobber
over the young Snow White's heaving bosom and Sigourney Weaver as stepmother
Claudia, whose cursed mirror and a serious case of post-partum bitchiness
(following the stillbirth of her son) spell endless trouble for Snowy.
Weaver is delightfully wicked, but the director may have been unsure whether
to film this as a symbol-heavy grim/Grimm tale or as an overwrought
supernatural slasher film. Too humorless and murkily lit to be a top-drawer
item, but it's still worth filing this one next to such superior fare as
_The Company of Wolves_ and _Dolls_ on the shelf where you store your
adolescent nighty-nightmares.