Written by Rob Hayes and directed by Osgood Perkins, Gretel & Hansel is not the fairytale we are familiar with but rather a horror movie.

The movie follows a young girl, played by Sophia Lillis, who leads her little brother, played by Sammy Leakey, into a dark, ominous forest. Like a long time ago in a distant fairytale countryside story, the brother and sister are in desperate search of food and work, only to stumble upon the very core of terrifying evil.

Perkins is also a writer and an actor who played a minor role in Legally Blonde. He is the son of actor Anthony Perkins of Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho.

Gretel & Hansel also stars Charles Babalola, Alice Krige, and Jessica De Gouw.

The featurette discusses how fairy tales are scary.