WFG RATING: B+

ITN Studios present an August Bound production. Directed by Kunahan Thampi. Produced by Rene August. Written by Harry Boxley. Cinematography by Vince Knight. Edited by Peter Englemann.

Stars Lewis Santer, Alina Desmond, Kelly Rian Sanson, Danielle Scott, Danielle Ronald, Natasha Tosini, Cherry Fox, and Chrissie Wunna. 

It’s a tournament as your fairy tale princesses go to war…with each other in this horror take from the team who brought you Piglet, Cinderella’s Curse, and Popeye’s Revenge.

The Mad Hatter has been growing tired of Alice as a result of her reluctance to do his constant bidding. He decides it is time to make a new princess his ‘bride’ and to accomplish this, he has an idea. Kidnap the fairy tale princesses and have them engage in fights to the death to determine who is the ‘fairest of them all’. He kidnaps Snow White, Tinker Bell, Belle, the mermaid Georgia, Rosetta the Sleeping Beauty, and Cinderella and invites them to his ‘tea party’.

The reason he picks these particular princesses is because each one has a special power that could be of good use for the Mad Hatter. As his madness grows deeper, Alice hatches a plan to escape but must rely on the help of the princesses. However, some of the princesses have found Hatter’s offering to not be a bad one, especially when it comes to what he has to offer for the winner of the death game. 

This is quite a novel concept and to find out it’s from the team who made public domain horror tales like Cinderella’s Curse behind it makes it somewhat of a shocker as this is not a typical horror film with one-dimensional characters. This film can be considered a semi-sequel to that very film as Kelly Rian Sanson reprises her role as Cinderella from that film with Chrissie Wunna’s Fairy Godmother returning as well. You don’t exactly have to see the original film to enjoy this standalone sequel, but it does help. 

Between his role as Tigger in Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey II and The Mouse in Mouse of Horrors, Lewis Santer is excellent in the role of the Mad Hatter. He brings that charm and wit to the role with a dash of over-the-top anger when it is necessary and a dash of comic relief at times. He has the princesses watch the matches through a magical screen above the tea party and for the most part, the fights are not catfight like goofiness, but more of a grounded close quarter combat style of fighting with certain princesses having special powers.

For instance, whereas the story is Beauty and the Beast, writer Harry Boxley comes up with the brilliant idea of “what if Beauty IS the Beast” as played by Natasha Tosini. Danielle Scott’s Rosetta the Sleeping Beauty is a wild frizzy-haired psycho who sports Catwoman-like gloves. As for Snow White, played by Danielle Ronald, she is a vampire/cannibal hybrid and those who saw Cinderella’s Curse knows what she is capable of. Cherry Fox’s Georgia the Little Mermaid, projects a banshee like voice but relies on blood to talk like a human again. The finale takes a complete jaw-dropping twist that does quite well and makes this a more than once watch.

Fairest of Them All is quite fun, engaging, and in this case, left me wanting more thanks to the great ensemble cast, especially Lewis Santer as the Mad Hatter. 

The film is now currently streaming on Tubi.