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LIST OF FANTASY TITLES R-Z
The Ratings:
 – Terrible, The Worst |
 – Disappointingly Poor |
| – Mediocre |
– Fair But Not Great |
| – Very Good |
– A Masterpiece |
| Title | Director/Year | Theme | Rating |
| R | |||
| Racing Stripes | Frederik Du Chau 2005 |
Racing Zebra/Talking Barnyard Animals | |
| Radio Flyer | Richard Donner 1992 |
Childhood Abuse/Fantasy of Flight | |
| Ragewar: The Challenges of Excalibrate (Various Directors, 1984). Refer to The Dungeonmaster. | |||
| Raging Angels | Alan Smithee 1994 |
Christian Spiritual War | |
| Raiders of the Lost Ark | Steven Spielberg 1981 |
High Adventure | ½ |
| Rainbow | Bob Hoskins 1995 |
Journey Up a Rainbow/Children’s Film | |
| Rainbow Brite and the Star Stealer | Bernard DeVries, Kimio Yabuki 1985 |
Animation/Magic Horse Saves the Universe | |
| The Rapture | Michael Tolkin 1991 |
Biblical End of the World | |
| Rashomon | Akira Kurosawa 1950 |
The Subjectivity of Perception | |
| Rat | Steve Barron 2000 |
Man Transforms into a Rat | ½ |
| Rat Pfink a Boo Boo | Ray Dennis Steckler 1965 |
Masked Superheroes/Classic Bad Movie | ½ |
| Ratatouille | Brad Bird 2007 |
Animation/Talking Rat Chef | ½ |
| Ratboy | Sondra Locke 1986 |
Deformed Boy Fable | |
| Reckless Kelly | Yahoo Serious 1993 |
Gonzo Bank Robber Comedy | |
| The Red Shoes | Michael Powell 1948 |
Ballet Drama/Fairytale Magic Shoes | |
| Red Sonja | Richard Fleischer 1985 |
Amazonian Warrior/Sword and Sorcery | |
| The Red Violin | Francois Girard 1998 |
Cursed/Inspired Violin Through the Ages | |
| Reign of Fire | Rob Bowman 2002 |
Dragon-Ruled Future | ½ |
| Remo: The First Adventure (Guy Hamilton, 1985). Refer to Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins. | |||
| Remo: Unarmed and Dangerous (Guy Hamilton, 1985). Refer to Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins. | |||
| Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins | Guy Hamilton 1985 |
Martial Arts Super-Spy | |
| Repeat Performance | Alfred Werker 1947 |
Personal Past Revisited | |
| Resurrection | Daniel Petrie 1980 |
Faith Healer | |
| The Return of Jafar | Toby Shelton, Tad Stones, Alan Zaslove 1994 |
Disney Animation/Aladdin Sequel | |
| Return to Never Land | Robin Budd 2002 |
Disney Animation/Peter Pan Sequel | ½ |
| Return to Oz | Walter Murch 1985 |
Wizard of Oz Sequel | ½ |
| Revelation | Andre van Heerden 1999 |
The Anti-Christ in Virtual Reality | |
| Richie Rich | Donald Petrie 1994 |
Comic-Book Rich Kid | |
| Richie Rich’s Christmas Wish | John Murlowski 1998 |
Comic-Book Rich Kid/Alternate Timeline | |
| River Queen | Vincent Ward 2005 |
Maori Wars Epic/Precognitive Dream | |
| The Road to El Dorado | Eric ‘Bibi’ Bergeron, Don Paul 2000 |
Animation/Lost City | |
| Road to Morocco | David Butler 1942 |
Screwball Comedy | ½ |
| Robin Hood | Wolfgang Reitherman 1973 |
Disney Animation/Legend Enacted with Talking Animals | |
| Robots | Chris Wedge 2005 |
Animation/Cute Robots | ½ |
| Rock-a-Doodle | Don Bluth 1991 |
Boy’s Animated Adventures/Singing Rooster | |
| Rough Magic | Clara Peploe 1995 |
Magical Realism | |
| Rover Dangerfield | Jim George, Bob Seeley 1991 |
Animation/Talking Dog’s Adventures | |
| Run Lola Run | Tom Tykwer 1998 |
Alternate Timelines | ½ |
| Russian Ark | Alexander Sokurov 2002 |
Walk Through Russian History/Temporal Disjunctions | |
| S | |||
| The Sacrifice | Andrei Tarkovsky 1986 |
Praying Back the Nuclear Holocaust | ½ |
| The Saddest Music in the World | Guy Maddin 2003 |
Kitsch Surrealism | |
| Saint Clara | Ari Folman, Ori Savan 1996 |
Precognitive Girl | |
| Saludos Amigos | Various 1943 |
Disney Animation/South American Travelogue | |
| Santa and Sons & Daughter! | Robert Battaile 2005 |
Christmas Film | |
| Santa Baby | Ron Underwood 2006 |
Santa’s Daughter | |
| Santa Claus Conquers the Martians | Nicholas Webster 1964 |
Santa on Mars/Classic Bad Movie | |
| Santa Claus – The Movie | Jeannot Szwarc 1985 |
The Santa Claus Story | |
| The Santa Clause | John Pasquin 1994 |
Man Becomes Santa | |
| The Santa Clause 2 | Michael Lembeck 2002 |
Santa Seeks a Wife | ½ |
| The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause | Michael Lembeck 2006 |
Santa vs Jack Frost | |
| The Saragossa Manuscript | Wojciech J. Has 1965 |
Tapestry of Fabulist Tales | ½ |
| Savages | James Ivory 1972 |
Savage Tribe Inexplicably Become Aristocrats | |
| Saving Grace | Costa Botes 1998 |
Contemporary Jesus | |
| Saviour of the Soul 2 | David Lai, Corey Yuen 1992 |
Hong Kong Martial Arts Fantasy | ½ |
| Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills | Paul Bartel 1989 |
Sexual Rondeau Comedy/Ghost | |
| The Science of Sleep | Michel Gondry 2006 |
Dreams and Wacky Surrealism | |
| Scooby-Doo | Raja Gosnell 2002 |
Ghostbusting Team/Cartoon in Live-Action | |
| Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed | Raja Gosnell 2004 |
Ghostbusting Team | |
| Scoop | Woody Allen 2006 |
Newspaper Story from the Afterlife | |
| The Scorpion King | Chuck Russell 2002 |
Sword and Sorcery | |
| Scrooge | Brian Desmond-Hurst 1951 |
Miser’s Redemption | ½ |
| Scrooge | Ronald Neame 1970 |
Miser’s Redemption | ½ |
| Scrooged | Richard Donner 1988 |
Modernized A Christmas Carol | |
| Seance on a Wet Afternoon | Bryan Forbes 1964 |
Medium/Kidnap Thriller | |
| The Second Jungle Book: Mowgli & Balaoo | Duncan MacLachlan 1997 |
Jungle Boy | |
| Second Sight | Joel Zwick 1989 |
Psychic Detective Agency | |
| Second Time Lucky | Michael Anderson 1984 |
Adam and Eve Comedy | |
| The Secret Adventures of Tom Thumb | The Bolex Brothers 1993 |
Little Person/Surreal Bizarreness | |
| The Secret Kingdom | David Schmoeller 1997 |
Miniature World Under the Kitchen Sink | |
| The Secret of N.I.M.H. | Don Bluth 1982 |
Animation/Talking Animal Quest | |
| The Secret of Roan Inish | John Sayles 1995 |
Irish Roots/Legend | ½ |
| Sensation | Brian Grant 1994 |
Clairvoyant Murder Mystery/Erotic Thriller | |
| Sgt. Kabukiman N.Y.P.D. | Lloyd Kaufman, Michael Herz 1991 |
Gonzo Superhero | |
| The Seven Magnificent Gladiators | Bruno Mattei 1985 |
Italian Muscleman Adventure | ½ |
| The Seventh Seal | Ingmar Bergman 1957 |
Death Incarnate | |
| The 7th Voyage of Sinbad | Nathan Juran 1958 |
Arabian Nights Adventures | |
| Sex and Zen | Michael Mak 1991 |
Hong Kong Erotic Comedy | |
| Sex & Zen II | Chin Man Kei 1996 |
Hong Kong Erotic Comedy/Gender Changing Sorcerer | |
| The Shadow | Russell Mulcahy 1994 |
Mystical Superhero | |
| The Shadow of Mary Poppins | Lisa Matthews 2002 |
Mary Poppins’ Creator Documentary | |
| Shadow of the Pepper Tree (Francesca Fisher, Taggart Siegel, 1995). Refer to The Offering. | |||
| Shadows and Fog | Woody Allen 1992 |
Kafka and German Expressionism Homage | |
| The Shaggy Dog | Charles Barton 1959 |
Teenage Were-Dog/Disney Comedy | |
| Shallow Hal | Bobby & Peter Farrelly 2001 |
Man Suddenly Sees Ugly Girls as Beautiful Comedy | |
| Shaolin Soccer | Stephen Chow 2001 |
Flying Martial Arts and Soccer | |
| Shark Tale | Bibo Bergeron, Vicky Jenson, Rob Letterman 2004 |
Animation/Talking Fish | |
| She | Lansing C. Holden, Irving Pichel 1935 |
Lost City/Immortal Queen | |
| She | Robert Day 1965 |
Lost City/Immortal Queen | |
| She Starts the Fire | Jing Wong 1992 |
Hong Kong Pyrokinesis Comedy | |
| Sheena | John Guillermin 1984 |
Jungle Girl | |
| The Shepherdess and the Chimneysweep (Paul Grimault, 1980). Refer to The King and the Mockingbird. | |||
| Shock Treatment | Jim Sharman 1981 |
Rocky Horror Sequel/TV Satire | ½ |
| Shortbus | John Cameron Mitchell 2006 |
Modern Sexuality | |
| The Shout | Jerzy Skolimowski 1979 |
Enigmatic Stranger | |
| Shrek | Andrew Adamson, Vicky Jenson 2001 |
Animation/Fairytale Spoof | |
| Shrek 2 | Andrew Adamson, Kelly Asbury, Conrad Vernon 2004 |
Animation/Fairytale Spoof | |
| Shrek the Third | Chris Miller 2007 |
Animation/Fairytale Spoof | |
| Siesta | Mary Lambert 1987 |
Deathdream | |
| The Silent Flute | Richard Moore 1979 |
Zen Quest | |
| The Silent One | Yvonne Mackay 1984 |
Deaf Polynesian Boy Befriends Sea Turtle | |
| Silent Tongue | Sam Shepard 1994 |
Western/American Indian Ghost | ½ |
| The Silver Brumby | John Tatoulis 1993 |
The Lives of Horses | |
| Simon Magus | Ben Hopkins 1999 |
Orthodox Jewish Village/Visions of the Devil | ½ |
| A Simple Wish | Michael Ritchie 1997 |
Inept Fairy Godmother | |
| Simply Irresistible | Mark Tarlov 1999 |
Magical Realism | |
| The Simpsons Movie | David Silverman 2007 |
The Simpsons Film Spinoff | ½ |
| Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger | Sam Wanamaker 1977 |
Arabian Nights Adventure | |
| Sinbad: Beyond the Veil of Mists | Allan Jacobs, Evan Ricks 2000 |
Arabian Nights Adventure/Animation | ½ |
| Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas | Patrick Gilmore, Tim Johnson 2003 |
Arabian Nights Adventure/Animation | |
| Sinbad of the Seven Seas | Enzo G. Castellari 1990 |
Arabian Nights Adventure | |
| The Singing Detective | Keith Gordon 2003 |
Detective Story Daydreams | |
| Single Santa Seeks Mrs. Claus | Harvey Frost 2004 |
Santa’s Son Seeks a Wife | |
| Sir Henry at Rawlinson End | Steve Roberts 1980 |
Surrealism | |
| Sleeping Beauty | Clyde Geronimi 1959 |
Disney Animation/Fairy-Tale | ½ |
| Sliding Doors | Peter Howitt 1998 |
Alternate Life Pathways | |
| The Slipper and the Rose | Bryan Forbes 1976 |
Cinderella Adaptation | |
| Snakeskin | Gillian Ashurst 2001 |
Surreal New Zealand Road Movie | |
| The Snow Queen | Martin Gates 1995 |
Animation/Fairy-Tale Adaptation | |
| Snow Queen | David Wu 2002 |
Fairy-Tale Adaptation/Epic Quest | |
| Snow White | Michael Berz 1987 |
Fairy-Tale | |
| Snow White | Caroline Thompson 2001 |
Fairy-Tale | |
| Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs | David Hand 1937 |
Disney Animation/Fairy-Tale | |
| Snow White: A Tale of Terror | Michael Cohn 1997 |
Adult Fairy-Tale | ½ |
| Solitaire for 2 | Gary Sinyor 1995 |
Romantic Comedy/Telepathic Woman | |
| Something Wicked This Way Comes | Jack Clayton 1983 |
Sinister Circus/Ray Bradbury Adaptation | |
| Somewhere in Time | Jeannot Szwarc 1980 |
Time-Travel Romance | |
| The Son of Kong | Ernest B. Schoedsack 1933 |
King Kong Sequel | ½ |
| Son of the Mask | Lawrence Guterman 2005 |
Mask Sequel | |
| Song of the South | Various 1946 |
African-American Tall Tales/Disney Animation | ½ |
| Songs from the Second Floor | Roy Andersson 2000 |
Surreal Vignettes | |
| Space Jam | Joe Pytka 1996 |
Toon Basketball | |
| Spawn | Mark A.Z. Dippé 1997 |
Demon Superhero/Comic Book Adaptation | |
| Spellbreaker: Secret of the Leprechauns (Ted Nicolaou, 1995). Refer to Leapin’ Leprechauns! 2. | |||
| Spider | David Cronenberg 2002 |
Inside a Mentally Ill Man’s Mind | ½ |
| The Spiderwick Chronicles | Mark Waters 2008 |
Secret World of Magical Creatures | ½ |
| The Spirit is Willing | William Castle 1967 |
Ghost Comedy | |
| The Spirit of the Beehive | Victor Erice 1974 |
Spanish Childhood/Ghost of the Frankenstein Monster | |
| Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron | Kelly Asbury, Lorna Cook 2002 |
Animation/The Lives of Wild Horses | ½ |
| Spirited Away | Hayao Miyazaki 2001 |
Anime/Afterlife Bathhouse | |
| Splash! | Ron Howard 1984 |
Mermaid Comedy | |
| Split Infinity | Stan Ferguson 1992 |
Children’s Time Travel Story | |
| Stairway to Heaven (Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, 1946). Refer to A Matter of Life and Death. | |||
| Stardust | Matthew Vaughn 2007 |
Epic Fantasy Adventure | ½ |
| Stay Tuned | Peter Hyams 1992 |
Hell as a TV Show | ½ |
| The Storm Riders | Andrew Lau 1998 |
Hong Kong Flying Swordsmen Fantasy | ½ |
| The Story of Mankind | Irwin Allen 1957 |
Heavenly Tribunal Judges Human History | |
| Strange Cargo | Frank Borzage 1940 |
Jesus Christ Aids Devil’s Island Escapees | |
| The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes and Arthur Conan Doyle | Cilla Ware 2005 |
Arthur Conan Doyle Biopic-Mystery/Meta-Fiction | |
| Stranger Than Fiction | Marc Forster 2006 |
Meta-Fiction | ½ |
| Strings | Anders Rønnow-Klarlund 2004 |
World of Puppets | |
| Stroke of Midnight (Tom Clegg, 1990). Refer to If the Shoe Fits. | |||
| Stuart Little | Rob Minkoff 1999 |
Mouse Boy | |
| Stuart Little 2 | Rob Minkoff 2002 |
Mouse Boy | |
| Stuart Little 3: Call of the Wild | Audu Paden 2005 |
Animation/Mouse Boy | ½ |
| Stuff | James Dunnison 1999 |
Resurrection Ring/Black Comedy | |
| Suddenly 30 (Gary Winick, 2004). Refer to 13 Going on 30. | |||
| The Supernormal | Lo Ting Kit 1992 |
Chinese Supernatural Documentary | |
| Surf’s Up | Ash Brannon, Chris Buck 2007 |
Animation/Surfing Penguins | |
| The Swan Princess | Richard Rich 1994 |
Animated Fairy-Tale | ½ |
| The Sword and the Sorcerer | Albert Pyun 1982 |
Sword and Sorcery | ½ |
| The Sword in the Stone | Wolfgang Reitherman 1963 |
King Arthur’s Childhood/Disney Animation | |
| Sword of the Valiant: The Legend of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight | Stephen Weeks 1983 |
Sword and Sorcery | |
| Swordsman | King Hu 1990 |
Hong Kong Flying Swordsmen Fantasy | |
| The Swordsman | Michael Kennedy 1992 |
Mystical Sword/Action/Reincarnation | |
| Swordsman II | Ching Siu-Tung 1992 |
Hong Kong Flying Swordsmen Fantasy | |
| Swordsman III: The East is Red | Ching Siu-Tung 1993 |
Hong Kong Flying Swordsmen Fantasy | ½ |
| T | |||
| The Tai Chi Master | Woo Ping-yuen 1993 |
Hong Kong Martial Arts | |
| Tales from Earthsea | Goro Miyazaki 2006 |
Anime/Epic Fantasy | |
| Tales of Beatrix Potter | Reginald Mills 1971 |
Talking Animal Ballet | |
| Tall Tale | Jeremiah Chechik 1995 |
Characters from Wild West Legends | |
| Taro, The Dragon Boy | Kirio Urayama 1979 |
Anime/Young Boy’s Adventures | |
| Tarzan | Chris Buck, Kevin Lima 1999 |
Jungle Hero/Disney Animation | |
| Tarzan and His Mate | Cedric Gibbons 1934 |
Jungle Hero | |
| Tarzan and the Lost City | Carl Schenkel 1998 |
Jungle Hero | |
| Tarzan and the Valley of Gold | Robert Day 1966 |
Jungle Hero | ½ |
| Tarzan the Ape Man | W.S. Van Dyke 1932 |
Jungle Hero | |
| Tarzan the Ape Man | John Derek 1981 |
Softcore Tarzan Adaptation | |
| Tarzan Triumphs | William Thiele 1943 |
Jungle Hero | |
| Tarzan’s Desert Mystery | William Thiele 1943 |
Jungle Hero | |
| Tarzan’s Fight for Life | Bruce Humberstone 1958 |
Jungle Hero | |
| Tarzan’s Greatest Adventure | John Guillermin 1959 |
Jungle Hero | |
| Tarzan’s Hidden Jungle | Harold Schuster 1955 |
Jungle Hero | |
| Tarzan’s New York Adventure | Richard Thorpe 1942 |
Jungle Hero Comes to Civilization | |
| Taxandria | Raoul Servais 1996 |
Fabulism/Surreal Fantasy Dystopia | ½ |
| Taxidermia | György Pálfi 2006 |
Tales of Gross-Out Surrealism | |
| Teen Wolf | Rod Daniel 1985 |
Teenage Werewolf Comedy | |
| Teen Wolf Too | Christopher Leitch 1987 |
Teenage Werewolf Comedy | |
| Tekkonkinkreet | Michael Arias 2006 |
Anime | |
| Tempest | Paul Mazursky 1982 |
Modernized Shakespeare Adaptation | |
| The Tempest | Derek Jarman 1979 |
Shakespeare Adaptation | |
| Tenacious D in the Pick of Destiny | Liam Lynch 2006 |
Rockstars’ Gonzo Quest | |
| The Tenant | Roman Polanski 1976 |
Apartment Block Paranoia/Identity Exchange | |
| The Testament of Dr Mabuse | Fritz Lang 1933 |
Mind-Controlling Criminal Mastermind | ½ |
| The Testament of Orpheus | Jean Cocteau 1960 |
French Existentialism/Meta-Fictional Autobiography | |
| That Eye, The Sky | John Ruane 1995 |
Ambiguous Miraculous Visitor | |
| The Thief and the Cobbler | Richard Williams 1994 |
Gonzo Arabian Nights Adventure/Animation | |
| The Thief of Bagdad | Ludwig Berger, Michael Powell, Tim Whelan 1940 |
Arabian Nights Adventure | |
| The Thief of Baghdad | Arthur Lubin 1961 |
Arabian Nights Adventure | |
| The Thief of Baghdad | Clive Donner 1979 |
Arabian Nights Adventure | |
| Think Dirty (Jim Clark, 1970). Refer to Every Home Should Have One. | |||
| The Third Miracle | Agnieszka Holland 1999 |
Catholic Sainthood and Miracles | |
| 13 Going on 30 | Gary Winick 2004 |
Young Girl in a Woman’s Body | |
| Thomas and the Magic Railroad | Britt Allcroft 2000 |
Talking Trains/Children’s Film | |
| Those Dear Departed | Ted Robinson 1987 |
Ghostly Vengeance Black Comedy | |
| Three Businessmen | Alex Cox 1998 |
Surreal Journey | |
| 300 | Zack Snyder 2007 |
Fantasticized Historical Battle/Graphic Novel Adaptation | |
| The Three Lights (Fritz Lang, 1921). Refer to Destiny. | |||
| The Three Stooges Meet Hercules | Edward Bernds 1961 |
Idiots Time-Travel to Ancient Greece | |
| Three Wishes | Martha Coolidge 1995 |
1950s Coming of Age Tale/Mysterious Stranger | |
| The 3 Worlds of Gulliver | Jack Sher 1960 |
Big and Small Adventures | |
| Thumbelina | Don Bluth, Gary Goldman 1994 |
Animated Fairy-Tale | |
| Tideland | Terry Gilliam 2005 |
Surreal World of Childhood Imagination | |
| Time Bandits | Terry Gilliam 1981 |
Gonzo Adventures Throughout Time | ½ |
| Time Warriors (Huo Yao-Liang, 1989). Refer to The Iceman Cometh. | |||
| The Tin Drum | Volker Schlondorff 1979 |
Boy Who Won’t Grow Up/Nazi Allegory | ½ |
| Tintin and I | Anders Østergaard 2003 |
Documentary About Tintin’s Creator | |
| Tintin and the Blue Oranges | Philippe Condroyer 1965 |
Comic-Book Character | ½ |
| To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday | Michael Pressman 1996 |
Ghosts of Memory | |
| tom thumb | George Pal 1958 |
Miniature Boy/Fairy Tale | |
| Tomb Raider (Simon West, 2001). Refer to Lara Croft, Tomb Raider. | |||
| Tommy | Ken Russell 1975 |
Demented Rock Musical/Messianic Pinball Player | |
| Too Many Ways to Be No. 1 | Wai ka-fai 1997 |
Alternate Timelines/Hong Kong Gangsters | ½ |
| Too Tired to Die | Wonsuk Chin 1998 |
Personified Death/Comedy | |
| El Topo | Alejandro Jodorowsky 1970 |
Surrealist Zen Western | ½ |
| Topper | Norman Z. McLeod 1937 |
Ghost Screwball Comedy | |
| Touch | Paul Schrader 1997 |
Faith Healer | |
| Toy Story | John Lasseter 1995 |
Animation/The Secret Life of Toys | |
| Toy Story 2 | John Lasseter 1999 |
Animation/The Secret Life of Toys | |
| Toys | Barry Levinson 1992 |
Toy-Maker Wars | |
| Track 29 | Nicolas Roeg 1988 |
Surrealism | ½ |
| Treasure Hunt | Lau Chang Wei 1994 |
Hong Kong Comedy-Romance/Magical Girl | |
| Treasure Island | Scott King 1999 |
Surrealism | |
| Treasure of the Four Crowns | Ferdinando Baldi 1983 |
Caper Adventure | |
| The Trial | Orson Welles 1962 |
Bureaucratic Nightmare World/Kafka Adaptation | |
| The Trial | David Jones 1993 |
Bureaucratic Nightmare World/Kafka Adaptation | ½ |
| Tribulation | Andre van Heerden 2000 |
Christian End Times/Anti-Christ Dystopia | |
| The Trip | Roger Corman 1967 |
LSD Trip | |
| The Triplets of Belleville | Sylvain Chomain 2003 |
Gonzo Animation | |
| Tristan + Isolde | Kevin Reynolds 2006 |
Historical Romance | |
| Troll | John Carl Buechler 1986 |
Mischievous Creature | ½ |
| A Troll in Central Park | Don Bluth, Gary Goldman 1995 |
Animation/Troll’s Adventures in Human Civilization | |
| Tropical Malady | Apichatpong Weerasethakul 2003 |
Thai Anthology/Ghost Tiger | |
| Troubled Waters | John Stead 2006 |
Abduction Thriller/Psychic Detective | |
| Tuck Everlasting | Jay Russell 2002 |
Family of Immortals | |
| The Tulse Luper Suitcases: The Moab Story | Peter Greenaway 2003 |
Surreal Mock Biography | ½ |
| Twice Upon a Yesterday | Maria Ripoll 1998 |
The Past Revisited/Romance | ½ |
| Twilight of the Ice Nymphs | Guy Maddin 1997 |
Kitsch Surrealism | ½ |
| Twilight Zone – The Movie | John Landis, Steven Spielberg, Joe Dante, George Miller 1983 |
Fantasy Anthology | |
| Twitches | Stuart Gillard 2005 |
Twin Sister Witches | |
| U | |||
| U | Serge Elissalde, Gregoire Solotareff 2006 |
Animation/Talking Animal Frolics | |
| Ugetsu Monogatari | Kenji Mizoguchi 1953 |
Japanese Ghost Story | |
| The Ugly Duckling | David Elvin, Martin Gates 1997 |
Animation/Fairy-Tale | |
| Unbreakable | M. Night Shyamalan 2000 |
Ordinary Superhero | ½ |
| Unico | Toshio Hirata 1981 |
Anime/Young Unicorn Boy’s Adventures | ½ |
| Upworld | Stan Winston 1992 |
Cop and Gnome Partner | ½ |
| Urotsukidoji: Legend of the Demon Womb | Hideki Takayama 1989 |
Anime/Perverse Demon Wars | ½ |
| Urotsukidoji: Legend of the Overfiend (Hideki Takayama, 1989). Refer to Legend of the Overfiend. | |||
| V | |||
| Valiant | Gary Chapman 2005 |
Animation/Talking Carrier Pigeons | |
| Vampire Hunter D | Toyoo Ashida 1985 |
Anime/Post-Holocaust Vampire Hunter | |
| Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust | Yoshiakai Kawajiri 2000 |
Anime/Vampire Hunter | |
| Vampire Hunters | Wellson Chin 2002 |
Hong Kong Fantasy/Monks vs Undead | |
| Vertigo | Alfred Hitchcock 1958 |
Reincarnation Thriller | |
| Vibes | Ken Kwapis 1988 |
Psychic Powers Comedy-Adventure | |
| Vice Versa | Brian Gilbert 1988 |
Father-Son Bodyswap Comedy | |
| Vidocq | Pitof 2001 |
Dark Historical Fantasy | |
| Village of Dreams | Yoichi Hagashi 1995 |
Mischievous Twins’ Childhood/Magical Realism | |
| The Visitors | Jean-Marie Poire 1993 |
Time-Travel Comedy | |
| Volcano High | Kae-gyun Kim 2001 |
High School Fantastical Martial Arts | |
| Volver | Pedro Almodovar 2006 |
Drama/Mother’s Ghost | |
| W | |||
| Waking Life | Richard Linklater 2001 |
Philosophy and Dreaming/Animation | |
| The Wall | Alain Berliner 1998 |
Belgian Linguistic Division/Dystopia/Magical Realism | |
| Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit | Steve Box, Nick Park 2005 |
Plasticine Animation | |
| The Wandering Kid (Hiedki Takayama, 1989). Refer to Legend of the Overfiend. | |||
| A Warrior’s Tragedy | Frankie Chan 1993 |
Hong Kong Flying Swordsmen Fantasy | |
| The Water Babies | Lionel Jeffries 1978 |
Children’s Underwater Adventure | ½ |
| The Water Horse | Jay Russell 2007 |
Loch Ness Monster | ½ |
| Watership Down | Martin Rosen 1978 |
Animation/Talking Rabbit Quest | |
| The Weary Death (Fritz Lang, 1921). Refer to Destiny. | |||
| Weekend at Bernie’s II | Robert Klane 1993 |
Resurrected Corpse Comedy | |
| Wendy Wu: Homecoming Warrior | John Laing 2006 |
Teenage Girl Martial Arts Warrior | |
| We’re Back! A Dinosaur’s Story | Phil Nibbelink, Simon Wells, Dick & Ralph Zondag 1993 |
Animation/Talking Dinosaurs | |
| Whale Rider | Niki Caro 2002 |
Maori Culture/Mystical Communion with the Whales | |
| What Dreams May Come | Vincent Ward 1998 |
The Afterlife | |
| What Women Want | Nancy Meyers 2000 |
Man Can Read Womens’ Minds/Chick Flick | |
| When Pigs Fly | Sara Driver 1993 |
Ghosts of Dublin | |
| White Light | Al Waxman 1991 |
Return from the Afterlife Thriller | |
| White Man’s Burden | Desmond Nakano 1995 |
Race-Reversed Alternate World | ½ |
| Who Framed Roger Rabbit? | Robert Zemeckis 1988 |
Toon Detective Story | |
| Who is Running? | Oxide Pan 1997 |
Tomorrow’s Newspaper Headlines | |
| The Whole Wide World | Dan Ireland 1996 |
Robert E. Howard Biopic | ½ |
| Wicked City | Yoshiaki Kawajiri 1991 |
Anime/War with Demon Dimension | |
| Wicked Stepmother | Larry Cohen 1989 |
Witch Moves In | |
| The Wild | Steve ‘Spaz’ Williams 2006 |
Animation/Talking Zoo Animals | |
| Wild at Heart | David Lynch 1990 |
Surreal Disturbed Road Movie | |
| Wilder Napalm | Glenn Gordon Caron 1993 |
Pyrokinesis Comedy | |
| Willow | Ron Howard 1988 |
Sword and Sorcery/Epic Fantasy | |
| Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory | Mel Stuart 1971 |
Absurdist Children’s Adventure/Fantastical Candy Factory | |
| The Wind in the Willows | Terry Jones 1996 |
Talking Animals/Absurdist Adventures | ½ |
| The Wind in the Willows | Rachel Talalay 2006 |
Talking Animals/Absurdist Adventures | ½ |
| Wings of Desire | Wim Wenders 1987 |
Angels | |
| Wired | Larry Peerce 1989 |
Surreal John Belushi Biopic | |
| The Witches | Nicolas Roeg 1990 |
Boy vs Evil Witches | |
| The Witches of Eastwick | George Miller 1987 |
Witches vs the Devil/War of the Sexes Comedy | |
| The Wiz | Sidney Lumet 1978 |
All-Black Musical Wizard of Oz Remake | |
| The Wizard of Baghdad | George Sherman 1960 |
Arabian Nights Burlesque | |
| Wizard of Oz | Larry Semon 1925 |
Silent Slapstick Adaptation | |
| The Wizard of Oz | Victor Fleming 1939 |
Adventures in a Magical Land | |
| The Wizard of Speed and Time | Mike Jittlov 1988 |
Special Effects Wizard | |
| Wizards | Ralph Bakshi 1977 |
Post-Holocaust Sword and Sorcery/Animation | |
| Wizards of the Lost Kingdom | Hector Olivera 1984 |
Sword and Sorcery | ½ |
| Woman on Top | Fina Torres 2000 |
Magical Realism | |
| Wonder Man | Bruce Humberstone 1944 |
Ghost Twin Brother/Screwball Comedy | |
| The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm | Henry Levin, George Pal 1962 |
Brothers Grimm Anthology/Biopic Adventure | |
| Woodenhead | Florian Habicht 2003 |
Surrealist Fairytale | ½ |
| Wu Yen | Johnnie To, Wai Ka-Fai 2001 |
Mischievous Fairy | |
| X | |||
| X | Rintaro 1996 |
Anime Superheroics | ½ |
| Y | |||
| The Year Without a Santa Claus | Ron Underwood 2006 |
Christmas Film | ½ |
| Yellow Submarine | George Dunning 1968 |
Animation/The Beatles Psychedelic Adventure | |
| Young Sherlock Holmes | Barry Levinson 1985 |
Teenage Sherlock Holmes/Adventure Film | ½ |
| Yu-Gi-Oh! The Movie – Pyramid of Light | Hatsuki Suji 2004 |
Anime/Playing Card Dueling | |
| Yuki – Snow Fairy | Tadashi Imai 1981 |
Anime/Young Goddess Comes to Earth | |
| Z | |||
| Zelig | Woody Allen 1983 |
Human Chameleon Mockumentary | |
| Zu: Warriors of the Magic Mountain | Tsui Hark 1983 |
Hong Kong Martial Arts Fantasy | |
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