A beautiful movie, with beautiful sceneries, costume, music in the background, etc. The movie however, is a mix between horror, thriller, dark comedy, fantasy, fairy tales, historical, etc. The main characters of the movie: two brothers, who were also con artists, traveled around Europe, faked their witchcraft to earn a living. When they traveled to a French occupied German area, they got captured by a jealous and a bit extremed French general, for this general believed they had been the culprit of 11 other unsolved kidnaps, all of them children, of a certain village closed by.
Facing excution, the brothers had no choice but to face the unknown & very real evil, just to find out where all those children had disappeared to.
In the dark and eery forest, as well as right at that village, they witnessed first hand all the strange and scary things which were still happening around them.
From a trapper of the village, (a young and pretty lady named Angelica), they learned that the village had a bad plague long time ago, which caused the queen to build a high tower for herself with the hope to avoid the same death as her king and her other subjects at the time.
The movie was full of hilarious scenes, sandwiched with shocking and intentionally horrified the viewers: licking the ugly toad, tiny insects burst out and seemed to attack people/animals around, black crows everywhere in the gloomy forest with trees which creeping along like snakes, poor peasant stripping the fur & gutting/dangling a small animal (to show how gloomy life was at the time?), etc.
Entwined with those, was traces of fairy tales: the wicked queen and the magical mirror (Snow White), the high tower with the beautiful queen there by herself (Rapunzel), little girl in red cape happily picking flowers and running wild in the forest before they got disappeared (Red Riding Hood), etc...
After all the thrilling and heart stopping moments, fortunately the movie ended happily, with all the wicked and evil gone for goods (hopefully), and all the dead/disappeared, suddenly woke up, or magically re-appear. Make viewers couldn't help smiling for the simplicity behind it.
One wondered, "what did the French think when they saw this movie? Didn't they think that the movie was a poke at them somehow, when compared their rule at the time to a sort of evil magic, with the dead queen constantly tried to suck up youthful energy from little girls in order to preserve her beauty to eternity?"
But then, the French Power at the 18th, 19th century was Napoleon, (who was defeated later) so who cared if that power was laughed at, right?
(wrote this review for my friend about a month ago!)
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