Login

Fantasy Films

Fantasy Films, unlike science fiction films that base their content upon some degree of scientific truth, take the audience to netherworld, fairty-tale places where events are unlikely to occur in real life. In mythological or legendary times, they transcend the bounds of human possibility and physical laws. Fantasy films are often in the context of the imagination, dreams, or hallucinations of a character or within the projected vision of the storyteller. Fantasy films often have an element of magic, myth, wonder, escapism, and the extraordinary. They may appeal to both children and adults, depending upon the particular film. Below is a collection of films where imagination has no bounds. Where entire worlds have been created and populated with mythical creatures, magical quests and larger than life heroes and villains.

Dragon Chronicles: The Maidens of Heavenly Mountains (1994)

Director: Wing Keung Chien
Starring: Brigitte Lin, Gong Li, Man Cheung, Norman Chu

AKA: 'The Immortals'. This big budget wu shu spectacular was slated on its original release, and though the plot, based on a complex novel, is somewh... Read more

The Crow (1994)

7.6/10
Director: Alex Proyas
Starring: Bai Ling, Brandon Lee, David Patrick Kelly, Ernie Hudson, Jon Polito, Michael Wi...

A superhuman mystical hero returns from the grave to exact revenge on the killers of his fiancee and himself on the eve of their wedding. The tragic d... Read more

The Mask (1994)

6.9/10
Director: Charles Russell
Starring: Jim Carrey, Cameron Diaz, Peter Green

Inspired by the manic 1940s cartoons of Tex Avery and based on the comic book of the same name, this loopy tale has a bank clerk discovering an ancien... Read more

The Shadow (1994)

6/10
Director: Russell Mulcahy
Starring: Alec Baldwin, John Lone, Penelope Ann Miller, Peter Boyle, Ian McKellen, Jonatha...

Lamont Cranston, having lived a life of moral degradation, is 'reborn' as a singleminded crimefighter with the ability to cloud men's minds. This adap... Read more

Necronomicon: The Book of the Dead (1993)

Director: Brian Yuzna, Christophe Gans, Shusuke Kaneko
Starring: Belinda Bauer, Bruce Payne, David Warner, Dennis Christopher, Jeffrey Combs, Mil...

This anthology is divided into four segments: "The Library" which is the wraparound segment involving Lovecraft's research into the Book of The Dead a... Read more

Jurassic Park ( Blu-ray ) (1993)

8.1/10
Director: Steven Spielberg
Starring: Ariana Richards, B D Wong, Bob Peck, Jeff Goldblum, Joseph Mazzello, Laura Dern,...

Steven Spielberg's brontosaurus-sized blockbuster, based on Michael Crichton's best-seller, follows scientists Alan Grant (Sam Neill), Ellie Sattler (... Read more

Heart and Souls (1993)

6.9/10
Director: Ron Underwood
Starring: Alfre Woodard, Charles Grodin, Elisabeth Shue, Kyra Sedgwick, Robert Downey Jr

This sentimental fantasy follows the misadventures of Robert Downey Jr, who, at the moment of his birth is 'adopted' by a quartet of ghosts. Realising... Read more

Jurassic Park Boxset (1993)

Director: Joe Johnston, Steven Spielberg
Starring: Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Richard Attenborough, Jeff Goldblum, Julianne Moore, Tea...

'Jurassic Park' - Michael Crichton re-invented his earlier 'Westworld' story by adding dinosaurs to the mix. The result is a thrill ride that became o... Read more

Return to the Lost World (1993)

5/10
Director: Timothy Bond
Starring: John Rhys-Davies, David Warner, Eric McCormack, Tamara Gorski, Darren Mercer

Answering a distress call from Africa, two rival scientists set out for the Lost World and find it threatened with destruction by sinister oil prospec... Read more

Jurassic Park (1993)

8.1/10
Director: Steven Spielberg
Starring: Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum, Bob Peck, Richard Attenborough

Steven Spielberg's brontosaurus-sized blockbuster, based on Michael Crichton's best-seller, follows scientists Alan Grant (Sam Neill), Ellie Sattler (... Read more