Solemplex To me, this movie is perfection.

Marketic It's no definitive masterpiece but it's damn close.

Glucedee It's hard to see any effort in the film. There's no comedy to speak of, no real drama and, worst of all.

Fleur Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

lesleyrrobson Warning: If you're expecting a kids film, this is NOT it! Zombies in a fairytale? Genius! The acting is pretty poor, the costumes looked like they came from a thrift shop and the dialogue is awful! Besides that though, I have to admit, it's compelling viewing if you like your fairytales as they were originally written. Definitely one of those movies meant for a rainy afternoon when there's really nothing else on.

Stephen Abell Apart from the terrible acting from an okay cast and some dodgy directing, this isn't too bad a story. As a film though, it's only average.Though the cast has B-Movie king Casper Van Dien (who directed this flick), Catherine Oxenberg, and Michael York listed, their worth in this film is minimal. The real bad thing is their lack of spirit is tangible. Poor York is the narrator and appears to have literally phoned his part in. There's no emotion or feeling in his voice; something which is a basic requirement in a narrator. Even though, Van Dein and Oxenberg, as Sleeping Beauties regal parents, are asleep for the majority of the movie they actually appear to be sleepwalking in their "awake" scenes.Even Olivia D'Abo who has a meatier role as the evil witch, Queen Tambria, ofttimes appears to be a somnambulist. The best actors in this little play are the Kings whipping boy, Barrow (Finn Jones) and the Prince Jayson (Edward Lewis French) along with his heavy Gruner (Gil Kolirin), and his soldiers.What this film really appears to be is an exercise in how many Van Dien's you can get on the screen in one film... that would be all of them. Most families would have a picnic... the Van Diens make a movie.The one thing that did surprise me was the location. For one, it actually worked. It even reminded me a little of the Hammer House Of Horror sets of far-off European principalities - it even came with a graveyard and earth clawing walking dead. Even the inside locations were decent. It was a delight to see proper stone walls. I would love to live in that mansion come castle.That said, there were a lot of gaping holes in the story that Dien should have ironed out when filming. For example, there's one scene where Prince Jayson sends Barrow up the castle walls to secure a rope through the only open window. Instead of getting him to check the place out while he's up there, he orders him to come straight down and they will camp in the courtyard, for the night. Then later the next day, they're being chased by dead warriors and climb the rope to escape only to find it leads to a balcony, with no entrance into the castle... hhhmmm, if only somebody had looked around before then they wouldn't be in this predicament. I cannot believe they were so stupid back then. This is bad writing and directing.There are some nice beasties in the film, though you can see when the budget started to run low. The lake monster is pretty good, as is the one which scales the outside of the building the first night they're there. However, near the climax of the film, the same monster is looking pretty funny and quite unrealistic as it prowls the dungeons.On the whole, this film could have been a hell of a lot better had the "Quality" cast put the effort into their portrayals of their characters... the story had been tightened and all the holes filled... and ropey special effects thrown onto the cutting room floor. You shouldn't rely on CGI if the budget won't carry it, find another way round to entertain the audience.If there's very little on the telly and it's miserable outside then you could give this a try. It'll waste an hour and a half.

Ummi MxM So So Bad. Waste of money and time. Acting is so bad it makes you cringe. So many plots and plans that just do not make sense. It's comical but in a very bad way. How can EVERY Actor in this movie get it so very wrong? Who wrote the Lines, 6 year old? Most probably the worst movie I have ever seen and believe me after going back to watch the old Batman & Robin Drama with the 'BOOMS' & 'CLASH' that is saying something! Ridiculous from start to finish. Maybe for 4/5 year olds but certainly not for anyone older, let alone teenagers or adults. The movie industry must have a lot of money to waste to bring out this trash. So much potential just wasted.

gurubesar I do not believe in copy-right thingy, but this is one thing I agree with the copy-right, patent-right or whatever they call it. Trying to use the same movie title to gain entry into the mind of the viewers is acceptable, but when you make a lousy movie out of a good title, then it is a different case all together.I just borrowed this movie from my friend who bought it. Unfortunately he did not warn me about the movie. I thought it was something similar to the old Hollywoody movie, but was I wrong big time. I hope this is not considered as spoilers. The prince is played by a character that is so disgusting. I could not imagine where in the world they found this kind of prince, specially when you make a fantasy movie. He could be a leader of biker gang for all I care, because the way his followers behaving. Of course to add insult to the injury, you have to create a cowardly prince to lead a group of people to fight the denizens of the magical realm which was created by the evil wizard (or is it evil queen ???)The CGI is very lousy. It looks like the work of grade 2 & 3 students during their art class. The whole idea of scary is completely different and really confusing. If you are afraid of the unknown, the most logical place to sleep would be as far away as possible from the source that scares you. But not here, the gang sleep next to the source but in a place where all the source of danger lay, not a single monsters come out during the night. The monster only come out during the day...., how convenient... If I as an ordinary (no movie star) person can see all these disgusting flaws, how is it that the director, the script writer and most importantly the financier can not see how bad this movie is ? Is it that they are so desperate to do something so that anything is better than nothing ? Is there no other way to invest the money other than this shitty movie ? My recommendation is get as far away as possible from this C grade movie (B grade is too good for this one....)