Seldom what they seem.

Sleeping Beauty is hands-down best for sheer volume of images. Perhaps because it's so extensive within its relatively closed framework. There's not much adventuring, but it's really three fairy tales in one (the story of the childless mother, the story of the child, the story of the child's rescuer). A lot of shit happening around one little castle.

It's pretty, although not quite a favorite in its current watered-down incarnation. And while the old version has our heroine waking up to the suckling of twin babies (fathered by a philandering prince who seems to have adiosed), it's much less the dark and ghastly that I prefer than it is simply gross. Though, I must say this particular Briar Rose is baring a little more leg than she should and her hair has developed into a Lovecraftian beastie of its own.