Grimm’s Fairy Tales Starring Mostly Lesbian Icons No Less

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Grimm’s Fairy Tales were meant to be just that: GRIM. The stories are magical, scary, comedic, and often a violent journey into the forests ...but not all appropriate for very young children.  Thus is the beginning of the collective duality inherent in many of us who were exposed to the joys and inevitable horrors that came from the imaginings of the Brothers Grimm. Today actors like Lena Headey, expose me to the joys of cinematic lesbianism and combined? Have Mercy!

The Brothers Grimm.

 

The most recent re-imagining of the Red Riding Hood story can be traced to oral versions from various European countries and more than likely preceding the 17th century, of which several exist, some significantly different from the currently-known, Grimm-inspired version. It was told by French peasants in the 14th century as well as in Italy, where a number of versions exist, including La finta nonna (The False Grandmother). It has also been called as "The Story of Grandmother" and possibly has roots in very similar Oriental tales, merely because Asian history precedes European history by centuries, not because I am attempting disregard European contributions to the arts.

Red Riding Hood: Starring Amanda Seyfried

Who else would have fit the role of Red Riding Hood (at least in the sense of a wide eyed innocent)?

Elena Arvigo also appeared in a lesbian themed movie

YEA_As_RRHFairy Tales are morality tales:
From this story one learns that children, especially young lasses, pretty, courteous and well-bred, do very wrong to listen to strangers, And it is not an unheard thing if the Wolf is thereby provided with his dinner. I say Wolf, for all wolves are not of the same sort; there is one kind with an amenable disposition — neither noisy, nor hateful, nor angry, but tame, obliging and gentle, following the young maids in the streets, even into their homes. Alas! Who does not know that these gentle wolves are of all such creatures the most dangerous!
Quite often women old and young are chastised or portrayed poorly as if being older is synonymous witchery. As in the telling of Snow White with Sigourney Weaver.

But what affected me most profoundly as a very young girl, was animated Hansel and Gretel. I was around 6 years old but this was the creepiest movie I’d ever seen.  Shaping my insatiable thirst for more sophisticated horror as an adult.

Puppets and Dummies have their own special place in the Horror Hall of Fame, did they really need to combine them with the Brothers Grimm?