Disney makes high-budget films, and with the release of its animation catalogs as live-action films, the profits keep rolling in.  However, a film that isn’t produced by Disney that won’t have such an upscale budget, but does have an exciting premise is Belle, which is being dubbed as a “horror fantasy retelling of the classic Beauty and the Beast fairytale.”

The synopsis reads, “Belle would do anything to save her ailing father so she journeys in search of a mythical rose believed to be a cure. Belle must surrender herself to a vicious beast to pay for the rose and battle his spell.”

With the retelling of horror adaptations of films, such as Winnie the Pooh and The Grinch, it is only fitting that Beauty and the Beast gets one too.  Belle was written and directed by Max Gold (Surfer’s Paradise, Silicon Beach, Classic of Changes) and will be released in select theaters on July 14, 2023, and will be available On Demand come August 22, 2023.

The film stars Andrea Snædal (Silicon Beach), Ingi Hrafn Hilmarsson  (The Noise of Engines, Silicon Beach), Hana Vagnerová (Female Factor, Beat on Friendship), Gudmundur Thorvaldsson (Take 5, Eleven Men Out), Helga Braga Jónsdóttir (Stitch n’ Bitch, Women at War), and Sigurður Sigurjónsson (The Valhalla Murders, Under The Tree).