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The film is an entirely new, dark vision of the classic Brothers Grimm adventure. It tells the story of Thomas Kaiser who inherits a cursed ancestral mansion and must unravel the mystery of the house, while struggling to awaken the beautiful Briar Rose.
It doesn't build up enough mythology to be a pure fantasy; it doesn't do enough with the original Brothers Grimm story to be a pure fairy tale; and there aren't enough scares or enough gore to be pure horror.
This movie is just over 80 minutes, and it feels like (a) they're stretching to fill that much, since so much of what happens is redundant; and (b) that they didn't actually do a lot of takes, since so many of these conversations are stilted.
May 13, 2016
Los Angeles Times
Director Pearry Teo, who scripted with Josh Nadler, pushes the brooding atmospherics, entrapping us in so many dingy, dustily lit spaces that, like Thomas, we just want to escape.
Well, the brothers Grimm are credited in the opening titles for the story of Briar Rose, but were they still alive, they might have passed on that favor.
Runs for less than ninety minutes, but you still might have trouble staying awake through it.
May 18, 2016
ReelTalk Movie Reviews
A fascinating film with eerie background music, a believable cast, and creepy atmosphere. This dark contemporary version of a Grimm fairy tale is very intense and not for kids.