Sleeping Beauty (1959 film) the movie, Enchanted Dominion, and characters who appear are Princess Aurora/Briar Rose, Maleficent, Maleficent's goons, the three faires and Prince Phillip, the latter serving as temporary party member for Aqua during her battle against Maleficent and her henchmen. Maleficent will return in "Kingdom Hearts III". Aurora is also a playable character in the game "Disney Princess". "Walt Disney's Sleeping Beauty Game" (1958) is a Parker Brothers children's board game for two to four players based upon "Sleeping Beauty". The object of the game is to be the first player holding three different picture cards to reach the castle and the
The Sleeping Beauty Quartet harmless to readers. The trilogy is included in the American Library Association's list of "100 most frequently challenged books" of the 1990s, with the term "challenge" defined in American literature as "an attempt to remove or restrict materials, based upon the objections of a person or group". Professor Linda Badley of Middle Tennessee State University wrote in her 1996 book "Writing Horror and the Body" on the trilogy, that rewriting the myth of "Sleeping Beauty" as sadomasochistic fantasies enabled Anne Rice to explore "liminal areas of experience that could not be articulated in conventional literature, extant pornography, or politically correct