The Curse of Sleeping Beauty
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Pearry Reginald Teo
Screenplay by	Pearry Reginald Teo Josh Nadler
Based on	The Curse of Sleeping Beauty by Everette Hartsoe and Little Briar Rose by Brothers Grimm Charles Perrault
Produced by	Ehud Bleiberg Pearry Reginald Teo
Starring	Ethan Peck Natalie Hall India Eisley James Adam Lim Bruce Davison
Cinematography	Christopher C. Pearson
Edited by	Damian Drago
Music by	Scott Glasgow
Production companies	2B Films Briar Rose Productions Nexus Motion Picture Company
Distributed by	XLrator Media
Release date	May 13, 2016 (2016-05-13)
Running time	86 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

The Curse of Sleeping Beauty is a 2016 American fantasy horror film directed by Pearry Reginald Teo and written by Teo alongside Josh Nadler. The film stars Ethan Peck, India Eisley and Natalie Hall. It is based on a comic book of the same name by Everette Hartsoe and the story Little Briar Rose by the Brothers Grimm and Charles Perrault.

Filming took place in Los Angeles, California. The film was released by 2B Films on May 13, 2016.

Plot

Thomas Kaiser, a painter, has recurring dreams in which he sees a beautiful sleeping girl, but is unable to wake her. When he attempts to kiss her, he is always distracted by a vision of a strange building and wakes in sleep paralysis. One day, he receives a phone call from a law firm informing him of an inheritance from his estranged uncle, Clive.

Thomas is informed his uncle died by suicide, leaving him a letter and a property known as Kaiser Gardens. The letter tells him to never go to the lower levels of the building and that the family is cursed. Thomas is startled to find out the inherited property is the very same building from his dreams. While at Kaiser Gardens, Thomas runs into a realtor Linda who gives him the keys and asks him a series of questions. That night while sleeping at the property he dreams of the sleeping girl and this time is able to kiss and awaken her. She tells him her name is Briar Rose and that they can communicate now that they are close in the physical world. He has a false awakening to an attack from the Veiled Demon. He wakes up from the nightmare to the appraiser knocking on the front door, who tells Thomas many people went missing in the house, but the police found nothing. Thomas explores the house and finds mannequins and an unmovable door shrine.

Later, while researching the property, Thomas collapses. He discovers a note from Linda regarding a prior appraisal attempt. He confronts her and she informs him her brother went missing in the house. Thomas collapses again and dreams of Rose. She tells him he must awaken her and the property belongs to his bloodline. Thomas awakens and Linda informs him that based on her research he is now bound to the property supernaturally and will die if he leaves Kaiser Gardens too long. They return to the property and open the shrine door using Thomas' blood, revealing a room. They open a book with seals and are attacked by the mannequins in the house. They escape the house with the book and are rescued by Richard Meyers, a paranormal investigator who is friends with Linda.

Richard tells Thomas they were attacked by a djinn and that the djinn can possess inanimate objects. Thomas believes he must wake Rose in order to break the curse. They hired Daniel (James Adam Lim), an acquaintance of Linda to decipher the book found in Kaiser Gardens. Billings returns to the property and is killed by the Veiled Demon. They discover that the family curse dates back to the Crusades and a djinn put Rose in an eternal sleep. The group deduces that Iblis wants her and they must kill the Veiled Demon and awaken Rose.

Thomas, Linda and Richard return to Kaiser Gardens and open a second door behind the shrine room. Linda and Richard distract the Veiled Demon while Thomas finds and attempts to wake Rose. Unable to wake Rose with a kiss, Thomas uses his blood. Rose awakens then kisses and attacks Thomas. Rose kills the Veiled Demon, but before doing so, it tells them that Thomas' bloodline 'stores' many demons, which Rose will summon to unleash upon the world. Rose states she will not kill them so they can see the darkness to come and begins to awaken the demons in Thomas' bloodline.

Meanwhile, as Daniel reads the translated curse and says awakening the demons in Thomas' bloodline will trigger the apocalypse, Rose announces the apocalypse has now begun.

Cast

Release

The film was released on May 13, 2016 (Friday the 13th) in the United States.

Reception

The film has been received mostly negative reviews. On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a rating of 15% based on 13 reviews and an average rating of 3.9/10.^[1] Luke Thompson of Forbes panned the film stating it "fractures more than a fairy tale".^[2] Frank Scheck of The Hollywood Reporter reviewed the film as a "cheesy horror film ... enough to put anyone to sleep".^[3]

Television series

In October 2017, a television series based on the film was announced is in development.^[4]

References

External links

• The Curse of Sleeping Beauty at IMDb
• The Curse of Sleeping Beauty at Rotten Tomatoes