Snow White: A Tale of Terror is a 1997 American Gothic dark fantasy horror film directed by Michael Cohn from a screenplay by Tom Szollosi and Deborah Serra. Co-produced by PolyGram Filmed Entertainment and Interscope Communications, the film is based on the 1812 fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm, and stars Sigourney Weaver, Sam Neill, and Monica Keena, with Gil Bellows, Taryn Davis, David Conrad, and Brian Glover in supporting roles. The film follows Lilli Hoffman (Keena), a young noblewoman forced to flee her home into the forest and join a group of outcasts to escape from her stepmother Claudia (Weaver), who blames Lilli for her miscarriage and seeks to kill her stepdaughter.