Critic Reviews

This is one sluggish curse that wouldn't wake even Sleeping Beauty.

The Curse of Sleeping Beauty is a hard-working but dreary horror-thriller inspired by the classic Grimm’s fairy tale.

Director/co-screenwriter Pearry Teo succeeds in investing the silly proceedings with spooky visual stylishness, providing enough scary demons and possessed mannequins to deliver the requisite jump scares. Unfortunately, the film also features sound, which results in the audience being able to hear the inane dialogue accompanying the familiar horror tropes.

The effects — monsters, demons — are mildly chilling. But Josh Nadler’s script is amateurish in the extreme.