The Curse of Sleeping Beauty

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Birgit G The worst. Boring. Predictive. Bad acting. Fast forwarded the lengthy bits. This…. Was really bad. Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 08/29/24 Full Review Adrian M I love fairy tales, especially when they are done right, especially if they are based on established mythology, and this one certainly is. Original fairy tales were meant to be scary, but Walt Disney ruined them by making them fun and child-friendly. They were meant to be warnings to children to do the right thing, a bit like how the Bible of Christianity or religious books from any other religions do - because if you don't listen to the lessons from the fairy tale then you are doomed to have bad things happen to you. So this is a fairy tale horror story, which is as they should be. In fact, we should go back through all of the fairy tales and make them all into horror movies. Now, this does deviate a bit from the source material, but it is still generally true to it. It's not inconsistent with the source material so much as it adds to it. And it was beautiful. It showed the beauty of the Sleeping Beauty story while adding to it with a dark side as well. Only one person dies in the whole movie, and even that one is largely off-screen, so this is more scary than terrifying, more unnerving than truly horrifying. It is how good horror should be. Yes, there were one or two minor jump scares, but that was not where it was from. It added a world of mysticism of it. I note, for those struggling authors out there, that this is based on a book that had to be self-published and doesn't seem to have sold very many copies, a short 56-page novella that doesn't seem to have sold a single copy on Amazon by an author who doesn't even have her own Wikipedia page - yet the movie does. And it was seriously good. It opened itself up for a sequel, but perhaps there won't be any. We were left having to guess what might happen afterwards. Apparently a TV series was meant to be based on this but I have seen no evidence that this has ever actually occurred. I am grateful for movies with these open endings, the old-style before we insisted on knowing what happens, and I am grateful for situations where the bad guys kind of win. Oh, and also I liked that the victims were not stupid, that they went to great lengths to be as smart as possible, and it actually kind of worked too, which is what we want to see. It was brilliant, unpredictable, and very underrated. The issue seems to be that people want these nice, neat endings where we know every intricacy of what is going to happen. This movie doesn't have that, so people can't be bothered with it. But they should. This is what fairy tale horror should be. I loved it. 8/10 Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 09/23/23 Full Review Grace M This movie is delightfully terrible, it is at 'The Room' level of sucky. I watched the whole thing because I wanted to know how it would end, and I regret doing that now 😂. Rated 1/5 Stars •  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 09/06/23 Full Review steve d Some good ideas but undone by an incompetent production. Rated 1/5 Stars •  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 03/30/23 Full Review spencer n I really tried to get into this movie, but the writing was just not up to snuff. Everything about the suspense was contrived and just too hard to get through. Found myself looking for commercials instead. Maybe a nice children's cereal or something. Rated 1.5/5 Stars •  Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member This movie was awful. It felt like they ran out of money and couldn’t finish the film. Effects were cheesy, the writing was bad, and the acting left a lot to be desired. I’m not sure why I kept watching, but I kept thinking “It’s got to get better at some point?”. I was wrong, it didn’t get better. Rated 1/5 Stars •  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 04/16/22 Full Review Read all reviews

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