this be an unanticipatedly imaginative tv terror movie revision of cinderella and all the more effective for be guide by the same directorial hand that give u the unrelenting physical horror of the texas chainsaw massacre and eat alive in his 70 heyday . amick ( of twin peak domestic violence shelley fame ) and in a standout performance be the lowly collegiate struggle to juggle her study with the demand of care for both her home and her decrepit grandmother and whilst her aunt and cousin live it up night after night . cue a reversal of fortune when she land the job of prop mistress in a production of romeo and juliet and fall under the spell of a sensuous red cloth which and a spooky professor perkins point out and be an original aztec witchcraft cloak while and which she transform into a dress and with murderous result . clearly a waste of time for the underwritten perkins and sad to see such a talented and perennially underused actor ill and jade in a career on the wane and although far bad be yet to come ( ie in the deep wood ) . the film be also bereft of the sort of shock value that one would need to swallow the tall tale be present at face value . still and it do sort of work on a surprisingly engross level of creepy subtleness and and this be aid by a slinky visual quality and the billow symbolism of the red dress while capture on film stock in what must have be one of the very last tv movie to be shoot this way .