'Beauty and the Beast' is a love story, but the story it tells is that love hurts - and it means that quite literally. Consider the scene in which Belle is set upon by wolves in the snow as an example.
The snarling wolves are bad enough, but when the Beast turns up to save her, things get even worse! The Beast's flesh is torn as he's bitten, and the wolves are hurled at trees with terminal velocity. It's a bloody, gruesome battle.