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fantasy film, Science fiction
Unlike the 1980 adaptation, this film discards a significant portion of the plot, some minor characters, and much of the philosophical underpinnings of the book. The alien invasion and the racial equalization were removed for this adaptation. The film takes place in a futuristic society, where a young man named George Orr overdoses using someone else's pharmacy card.
fantasy film
Young Alice explores the Wonderland, after falling down a rabbit hole, which soon meeting upon the White Rabbit. Alice explores Wonderland, while orchestra from the 30s plays. The music stops as the girl goes into the Duchess's House.
Action, Adventure, Horror, kaiju, mockbuster, Science fiction, thriller film
After a long dormant volcano suddenly becomes active again, a nest of mysterious eggs are unearthed and begin to hatch, revealing themselves as prehistoric pterodactyls. A trio of hunters, scouting the Turkish–Armenian border are suddenly attacked by a pterodactyl. While defending themselves, they become outmatched and are all killed.
Christmas film, drama television program, fantasy film
Jacob Marley, a criminal and associate of predatory loan shark Eddie Scrooge, is murdered. On Christmas Eve, Scrooge terrorises his debtors on a local housing estate collecting payments, aided by Bob Cratchit, who works for Scrooge to pay off his own debts. Marley's mother, a charity collector, suspects that Scrooge was involved with her son's death.
Horror, monster film, Satanism, Science fiction, Vampire, war film
On 5 June 1944, a unit of New Zealand commandos are sent to the Channel Islands on sabotage and distraction raids, to draw the German military's attention away from Operation Overlord, planned landings in Normandy. Captain Ben Grogan and Sergeant Joe Tane land by canoe on a fortified beach on Forau Island. Heading inland, they hear distant screaming and gunfire.
Comedy, Drama, fantasy film, flashback film
Lawrence and Sylvia Stevens are celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary. In a flashback to the 1890s, Lawrence Stevens is an obituary writer unhappy with his job. He is given tomorrow's evening newspaper by an elderly newspaper man named Pop Benson, though he does not bother to read it.
fantasy film, musical film
The Pied Piper is first spotted working magic in Hamelin by a disabled boy, Paul, and playing his signature tune "In the Hall of the Mountain King." Paul tells his best friend, the schoolteacher Truson (who bears an uncanny resemblance to the Piper), who is skeptical. The town of Hamelin has entered into a competition between several villages in order to win a banner from the king. The mayor exhorts the people, even the children, to work incessantly to build a clocktower to the extent that the children are denied school and play.
fantasy film
Ella Muggins is a Camberwell charwoman who is the widow of a regimental sergeant major. One day during the London Blitz, she relates to her friends a story about a "magic eye" charm that her husband obtained during his Army service in India that protected him from all harm. Whilst cleaning her attic, she goes through her husband's effects and finds the charm that she absent-mindedly puts in the pocket of her skirt.
fantasy film, Horror, monster film, natural horror film, Science fiction, television film
The Alaskan town of Beaver Mills, located north of the Arctic Circle, prepares for its annual celebration of the summer solstice, when the sun does not set. Meanwhile, a wyvern, a dragon-like beast, is released by the melting of the ice caps and attacks a fisherman on the shore of a lake nearby. In town, ice trucker Jake Suttner acts as a handyman in a café.
Drama, fantasy film, romance film
In 1898, John Carteret is standing by the grave of Moonyean Clare (1849–1868). At home in his garden, he calls to her, and her spirit comes to him, wearing a wedding dress. He does not see her, but he sometimes hears her.
fantasy film
In a 19th-century English manor, the bedridden matriarch Sophy spends her time continually fortified with wine. She is attended by a strict housekeeper and an elderly groundskeeper. They are unaware of the few-centimeters-tall Clock family of "borrowers" who have set up residence under the mansion's floorboards.
fantasy film
Bonnie is the daughter of Lord and Lady Willoughby, who live at the country estate Willoughby Chase. Lady Willoughby is ill, and the couple plan to recuperate on the Mediterranean. In London, Bonnie's cousin, Sylvia, is leaving her impoverished Aunt Jane (Lord Willoughby's cousin) to keep Bonnie company while her parents are away.
fantasy film, Horror
Prologue Two men, Ed and Bruce, steal videotapes from a video store in Times Square. They then begin watching the tapes at their friend Marie's apartment. Killer Punch Jack Grimshaw is an old puppeteer who lives in a seaside town, where he puts on Punch and Judy shows at the beach.
Comedy, fantasy film, Ghost, romantic comedy
In 18th-century Scotland, Clan Glourie's enemy is Clan McLaggan, which is hated even more than the English. The McLaggan, the head of his clan, and his five sons go to fight the English. They pause at Glourie Castle to mock The Glourie and his clan as cowards.
Coming-of-age, Horror, Modern-Day Fantasy
Action, Drama, fantasy film, Horror, war film
Comedy, romance film
Angels Charles and Arthur try to convince a young cherub named Item to stop waiting to be born to Lydia and Jeff Bolton, her parents who she has personally selected. The Boltons are too busy with their theater work to start a family and are also drifting apart, as Lydia wants to have a child but Jeff convinces her to put their careers first. When Item proves adamant, Charles tries to help by taking human form as "Slim" Charles, a supposedly rich Montanan, and encountering the Boltons at a racetrack.
Adventure, Christmas film, fantasy film
Ayden, an orphan in Medieval Europe who lost her parents to a dragon, receives a magic crystal from a dying elf to bring back Christmas from becoming a fading memory. She and the other orphans alongside wayward adult Airk must go to the North to meet Father Christmas.
Comedy horror, fantasy film, teen film, Zombie
In 1972, a young camper at Camp Whispering Lake tries to find his other campmates but gets frightened and runs off into the woods. He finds an old cabin and attempts to hide from an unseen force. The police later arrive to find them (the campers).
Action, children's film, fantasy film
The movie opens on what appears to be another average day in Hoagie's Alley (which, for the purposes of this story, has apparently been relocated closer to Beverly Hills) for Top Cat and his gang, who are today posing as Boy Scouts, out doing good deeds in the hopes of getting rewards. During the course of this, Benny the Ball saves the life of a bag lady. Unbeknownst to Benny, it is revealed afterwards that she is actually a rich woman named Gertrude Vandergelt, who plans to leave her fortune to her missing niece, a 16-year-old teenager named Amy.
Action, fantasy film, Horror, medieval film, Werewolf
{{plot}} In the opening, A narrator tells us, It was unmistakable. A wolf rising it's stem and stern. It sailed drip blood, red.
Comedy horror, Parody
The film opens with two short sequences before the main story line begins, first a prologue, and then a mock television advertisement. In the prologue, a seemingly helpless young woman is pursued by Jason Voorhees, Leatherface, and Freddy Krueger; she is then chased into a cave and reappears a few seconds later with an item from each of the three. She then faces the camera and laughs (showing her fangs) and says, "Amateurs!" The advertisement sequence is for a "mortuary, crematory, cemetery" called "Death City" where a salesman tries selling viewers "new and used coffins", with the help of his assistant Lovely Rita.
Comedy, fantasy film, monster film, Vampire
After hearing rumors from a TV newscaster that Halloween may end and that he is being blamed, Count Dracula exclaims, "How dare they suggest such a thing? Halloween is my national holiday!" and he calls the world's most famous monsters—Warren the Werewolf a.k.a. Wolf Man (Jack Riley) of Budapest, Frankenstein's monster (John Schuck), Zabaar the Zombie (Josip Elic) of Haiti, the Mummy of Egypt and the Witch - to his castle to make them frightening again.
Action, Adventure, Comedy, fantasy film, Science fiction
A knight returning from crusade, George, bids farewell to his Muslim friend Tarik. George plans to go home and start a farm, while Tarik plans to travel to Spain and find the famous mercenary El Cabillo. Before parting, they incidentally save Father Bernard, a convicted priest who has escaped his hanging, from a pursuing mob.