The Curse of Sleeping Beauty (2016)

watched on Netflix 02/04/2018




Leaning towards a 2.5 rating, but not rounding up for obvious reasons.  The leading actors, Ethan Peck (as Thomas) and India Eisley (as Briar Rose) have some charisma, but not enough to put this movie into 3 star territory. While I could see the ending coming a mile away (actually about an hour and a few minutes away), I decided to watch the entire movie. The set design appeared as if someone took the entire year's Halloween inventory for Party City along with the contents of one complete Pier One Imports store, with the addition of pseudo-weeping angel action from Doctor Who and you have the set. The usual horror tropes were present and accounted for (jump scares, decrepit house with an unsavory rep, missing people, an unusual amount of beautiful twenty-something females and an old text written in, surprise, Aramaic). The ending was a cliffhanger, probably hoping for The Return of the Curse movie.  Staying until the end, did gift me with some knowledge. The true curse of this movie was... (insert ominous music here) the lack of a completed script.