GFT Retrospective #10: Bluebeard
Good morning, Ticketholders. After some research (which is what I call typing the name of a fairy tale into Wikipedia and skimming the page that comes up), I am back with another installment of the Grimm Fairy Tales Volume 2 Retrospective. I could harp on the fact that today's issue of interest is not based on a Brothers' Grimm fairy tale, but instead on a French spoken-word fairy tale. But if Zenescope had stuck to selections of the series' namesake, the company would not still be alive and kicking these twelve years later, and I wouldn't have all of this material to comment on. So on to the Grimm Fairy Tales spoilentary!
This is another fairy tale that I was unfamiliar with, but since reading this issue, I’ve seen shades of it in several horror movies, chiefly “Crimson Peak.”
In the framework around Bluebeard, a woman named Debbie has hired a private investigator (with the last name of Pinkerton, because wild west history and Zenescope), who thinks Debbie’s husband is cheating on her at a storage facility. Debbie suspects her husband might also be planning to kill her, and airs her concerns to co-worker Sela, who has a fairy tale at the ready to ease her mind.
The original, partially inspired by French serial killer Gilles de Rais, is just as bloody as the GFT interpretation in its gory moments, but has the "happier" ending of the two and paints the Bluebeard character in a less sympathetic light.
In the GFT story, Debbie becomes Dasha, a peasant girl who is chosen by Bluebeard to be his bride. The bulk of the fairy tale is a “curiosity killed the cat” message that neither version of the woman are patient or trusting enough to heed.
The ending is too bloody hilarious (take both words literally) to spoil, so decide for yourselves if you want to open that door and see what lies beyond the facade. Killer, but still filler.
If you're as into the Retrospective as I am, let me know in the comments, leave a like, and click on some ads so I can get out of this secret basement room I'm living in. Kidding. Stay tuned for the wrap-up of Volume Two next time.
GFT #11: Bluebeard
In the framework around Bluebeard, a woman named Debbie has hired a private investigator (with the last name of Pinkerton, because wild west history and Zenescope), who thinks Debbie’s husband is cheating on her at a storage facility. Debbie suspects her husband might also be planning to kill her, and airs her concerns to co-worker Sela, who has a fairy tale at the ready to ease her mind.
The original, partially inspired by French serial killer Gilles de Rais, is just as bloody as the GFT interpretation in its gory moments, but has the "happier" ending of the two and paints the Bluebeard character in a less sympathetic light.
In the GFT story, Debbie becomes Dasha, a peasant girl who is chosen by Bluebeard to be his bride. The bulk of the fairy tale is a “curiosity killed the cat” message that neither version of the woman are patient or trusting enough to heed.
The ending is too bloody hilarious (take both words literally) to spoil, so decide for yourselves if you want to open that door and see what lies beyond the facade. Killer, but still filler.
If you're as into the Retrospective as I am, let me know in the comments, leave a like, and click on some ads so I can get out of this secret basement room I'm living in. Kidding. Stay tuned for the wrap-up of Volume Two next time.
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