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10 Creepy, Sexy Fairy Tales That Should Be Films

Fairy Tales Films

First Posted: 07/25/11 04:49 PM ET Updated: 09/24/11 06:12 AM ET

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io9.com:

If there's one thing we learned this past week at Comic-Con, it's that Hollywood is obsessed with fairy tales. They're magical, they've got instant recognition... and they're public domain. But Hollywood keeps hitting on the same five stories.

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08:36 PM on 07/25/2011
How about Donkeyskin, where the queen, on her deathbed, begs her husband never to remarry except to someone as beautiful as she. Of course, several years later, there's only one woman in the kingdom as beautiful as the queen - her daughter. Robin McKinley did a wonderful novelization of it called Deerskin.
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watashi ha tororu ga oroka da to omoi masu。
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01:31 PM on 07/26/2011
I read that recently - beautifully written!

But then, I think just about anything by her is well worth reading.
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