12 Fantasy Movies You Need To Watch This Weekend!
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I made a virtual fantasy film festival for you to enjoy. Seventy years of cinematic magic!
00:00 Intro
00:38 Thief of Bagdad (1940)
02:33 1001 Nights (1945)
03:23 Captain Sindbad (1963)
04:24 Night Watch (2004)
05:29 Day Watch (2006)
06:10 Bell Book and Candle (1958)
07:42 One Touch of Venus (1948)
08:41 Pandora And The Flying Dutchman (1951)
09:42 Big Trouble In Little China (1986)
10:38 The Raven (1963)
11:46 The Magic Sword (1962)
13:10 Pufnstuf (1970)
15:50 Outro
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"Big Trouble in Little China" is one of my favorite movies ever
The old Pork Chop Express. 😀
What I love about the Jack Burton character in Big Trouble is how he has next to no effect on any of the goings on in the movie yet he believes he's saving the day.
Dunning-Kruger effect.
Most people miss the whole point of view switch in "Big Trouble". Jack is NOT the hero, he is the Sidekick! And the whole story is from his POV.
@@brettpeacock9116 Anyone who can run around a dungeon with lipstick on his face for almost a quarter😀 of the movie is a hero in my book! :-)
Lo-Pan (The great James Hong really enjoying himself), is one of the coolest movie villains of all time. Fact.
@@brianartillery When he raises his voice to say something like "Now this really pisses me off"-always cracks me up!
Thank you. You showed some movies that I have never seen and some that I've seen a long, long time ago. Jason and the Argonauts (1963) is one of my all-time favorites.
Good choice!
BELL BOOK AND CANDLE was a play before it was a movie, and I had the pleasure of working on a production of it in around 2000. Fantastic story and characters.
The movie has a zaniness to it that was a little rare in the largely dull 1950s.
Favorite off-the-top-of-my-head fantasy movies: The Seventh Voyage Of Sinbad. Harryhausen monsters, a princess turned into a living doll, Torin Thatcher at his villainous best; Dragonslayer and Labyrinth from the 1980's; I Married A Witch, from the 40's, with Veronica Lake and Fredric March, a precursor to Bewitched and Bell, Book, & Candle.
I Married A Witch is such charming fun.
_Princess Bride_ would be one off the top of my head, also _Dougal And The Blue Cat,_ it's a bit out of leftfield but who doesn't love a bit of 70s subversive kids stop-animation?
My go to 1970s subversive stop motion animation is the Great God Porno in Flesh Gordon.
This is why Janet and I ADORE your channel. You and we are all from around the same time with many things in common. Powell and Pressbergers "Thief..." is sublime and has followed me from my youth. "One Touch of Venus is yet another movie where we both scream " IDIOT, it's Ava Gardner, and she's offering herself to you, say yes dum dum. She and James M are incredible in Pandora directed by Jack Cardiff. I agree Kim's loss of power is awful 1950s misogyny.
Thanks! If it was me Ava Gardner's Venus was approaching, I'd be a lot less reluctant.
Big trouble in little China, has Kim Catrell ; who plays the mannequin in the fantasy movie of the same name which was a remake of 'A Touch of Venus ' which has been a favorite of mine for a long time.
Mannequin is a poor remake of One Touch of Venus. It has too much cringe.
Great selections for the film festival! I especially loved the inclusion of the Ava Gardner movies and the Thief of Baghdad. Love your vids, so please keep up the good work!
Thanks so much, Terence. 😀
Captain Sinbad was played by Guy Williams who also played the Father on 'Lost in Space'. 😮
I know. 😀 and Zorro.
Love “The Thief of Bagdad” (1940). Great fantasy story and color. I’ve watched it a good half a dozen times throughout the years. First time as a kid it was a magical wonder!
Fan of “The Raven” as well specially when the two magicians go at it like a duel.
Love the Sinbad and Greek mythology fantasy movies by Ray Harryhausen and his stop motion animation.
- The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958)
- Jason and the Argonauts (1963)
- The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1973)
- Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger (1977)
- Clash of the Titans (1981)
If I had to pick just one of Ray’s movies it’d be “Jason and the Argonauts”.
Good choices.
"Sid and Marty Krofft were both fond of the reefer..." Without a doubt! 🤣
I was a huge Puffenstuff fan when I was a kid. Great show! Honestly, loved just about every Sid and Marty Krofft show that was on TV at the time.
Pufnstuf is such fun, too. It's peak Sid and Marty.
When I was about 12 years old, I would walk to school (Sun Valley Jr High) past the Kroft Studios lot, and see many of the sets stored outside. 😊❤😊
Great selection, Terry. I had completely forgotten about H.R. Pufnstuf. It was shown on UK TV, when I was a kid. It looks batshit crazy (in a good way) nowadays, but I know, deep inside, that, were I to watch it - I'd love it. I think that 'The Magic Sword' and 'Jack The Giant Killer' (which scared the bejeezus out of me, when I saw it as a kid), would make a damn good double feature.
Thanks, yet again. 👍👍👍
My pleasure, Brian.
Great list of films I've seen and some that I haven't. I agree The Thief of Bagdad is a great fantasy film, both the 1940 and the 1925 although they are so different. The 1940 version is the better fantasy, though.
I'd like to suggest:
Waxworks (1924)
Lost Horizon (1937)
A Matter of Life and Death (1946)
Brigadoon (1954)
The Dark Crystal (1982)
Orlando (1992)
The Fall (2006)
And a whole heap of anime from Ghibli, Mamoru Hosoda, and Makoto Shinkai (maybe another film festival?).
I love Lost Horizon. I have a blu-ray of it on the way to replace my DVD.
Wow -- you covered so much! BTILC was on of my favorite movies when I left college and started working -- but HR Pufnstuf -- I grew up watching that on TV -- never knew that there was a movie, or that Pufnstuf was gay! You are a font of knowledge and wisdom -- now to track down the Pufnstuf movie!!!!
Pufnstuf is a great comfort film, too, Aengus. Just like Paddington 2.
Excellent selection. I recall Pandora and the Flying Dutchman getting a bit of a revival in the 80s and some recognition. I think here was a restoration that was released.
The Raven and Masque of the Red Death were Corman's two best Poe films in my opinion. I think that magic duel at the end of the former may have inspired some of the effects in the MCU Doctor Strange.
I'm a sucker for sorcerors yeeting spells at each other. It always works.
Wow, fantastic! 12 films I have not seen! Great stuff. I do remember watching Pufnstuf as a kid in the 1970s but I didn't know there was a film.
Agreed on the Harry Potter and Tolkein. Great films for sure but too mainstream for a film festival. I also tried to step outside the box and chose mostly "Low Fantasy" for my list.
Here's my list:
The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou - 2004
The Fall - 2006
Pan's Labyrinth - 2006 (Spanish)
The City of Lost Children - 1995
Three Thousand Years of Longing - 2022
Wings of Desire (Der Himmel über Berlin) - 1987 (German)
Stardust - 2007
The Green Knight - 2021
Survive Style 5+ - 2004 (Japanese)
Powder - 1995
Paprika - 2006 (Japanese)
Hugo - 2011
Life of Pi - 2012
Good chocies. I did a video back a while on The Green Knight. Underrated AF.
Watched The Fall for the first time last night and was blown away by it, not only the visuals (absolutely stunning and gorgeous) but also the story. And it would be a lovely fit for a fantasy film festival.
I got "The Thing' and 7 other great movies from my local "paws" shop for $2 each today......what a score!!!!
Nice one! DVD or blu?
@@terrytalksmovies all DVD....
I think all these are worth a watch. Wladyslaw Starewicz (1912) The Cameraman's Revenge, Norman McLaren (1952) Neighbours, Karel Zeman (1955) Journey to the Beginning of Time, Jan Svankmajer (1994) Faust, and Michel Gondry (2013) Mood Indigo. The East Europeans seem good at fantasy. Met Jack Wild just before he died. Nice bloke to me.
Jack Wild's life was sad, unfortunately. The Eastern European ones would make their own festival alone.
Also big thanks for acknowledging the difference between fantasy and Science Fiction.
It's always a useful differentiation to make.
Terry, I hate to say this,but I studied for three years in West Germany and Austria. I can speak German like a native if I drink enough beer have a beautiful Madchen on hand. Conrad Veidt is pronounced like Height. If it were spelled Viedt it would be like wheat.
I love all your choices, especially The Magic Sword.
Thanks for the correction. 😀
Hawk the Slayer is amazing D&D pastiche. When I was 11, it was the greatest thing ever and made me a.huge fan of Jack Palance.
I'll have to rewatch it. 😀📽
Wow Terry,i love Day watch and Night watch, very dark.👍
Yep, they have that post-Soviet Russian pessimism as part of the environment.
I used to confuse ONE TOUCH OF VENUS with DOWN TO EARTH, a decidedly non-Christian sequel to HERE COMES MR. JORDAN. The difference is that while Terpsichore, the Goddess of Dance and Chorus, was played by Rita Hayworth (far better than Olivia Newton-John, who could barely dance at all, played her in the semi-sequel XANADU!), The Goddess of Beauty and Love Venus was played by Ava Gardner.
Xanadu is such a sad end to Gene Kelly's career.
Id DEFINITELY would suggest Big trouble in little china and Pufnstuf looks like a fever dream XD and Thief of Bagdad sounds interesting.
Me, too. 😀😉
I watched "H.R. Puffenstuff" and didn't know a movie was made.
"The Raven" was fun, but you didn't mention Jack Nicholson as Peter Lorre's son.😊
True. Jack serving his apprenticeship.
Big thanks for another festival format video
My pleasure!
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen is, I think, list-worthy, although not everyone likes Terry Gilliam's stuff. And thanks for including The Magic Sword, I saw it at a matinee when I were a lad and really enjoyed it.
The Magic Sword still holds up, too. Munchausen is fun.
A good set. The Raven and Big Trouble in Little China are fun movies. I presume "The Wizzard of Oz" is too well known to be one of your choices. I would include "Excalibur", "Highlander", and "Jason and The Argonauts".
Good choices. 😀
@@terrytalksmovies Thank you.
Great list ! You surprised me with H.R. Pufnstuf. But that is a good thing. I was lucky to have color TV in the early 70's. (movie addicted parents helps) The color pallet on Pufnstuf hits you like a mallet. I have shown Sid and Marty Kroftt shows like Land Of The Lost and Pufinstuf to my daughter 10 yrs ago and she loved them. My list of under appreciated fantasy add ons would be The Dark Crystal, Krull, The Never Ending Story, Jack The Giant Killer, Lady Hawke, Dragonslayer, Jason and the Argonauts.
Good choices there.
Terry what a great list I know what I will be doing this weekend, watching a bunch of these movies. Thank you for showing some love for The Magic Sword. I saw it when I was a kid and when I saw a Blu=Ray of it for sale I couldn't wait to but it for my collection.
The Magic Sword is a precursor to all those Charles Band sword and sorcery movies that came out twenty years later.
Sid and Marty named a show Lidsville. Lids is an older American term for the funny tobacco cigarettes. Of course they were getting baked. I adore the Raven, Bigelow Trouble, and Bell Book and Candle. Captain Sinband with Guy Williams is a MUST see.
Apparently J K Rowling didn't know what muggles was, too.
I have the Puffnstuff series but I don't think I have seen the movie yet. I agree the Magic Sword punches above its weight and is excellent. I wouldn't have considered The Raven a fantasy movie, but I'll give it a rewatch soon. Two of my favorites are Terry Gilliam's The Adventures of Baron Munchausen and Chris Elliot's Cabin Boy and they make an excellent double feature.
Munchausen is fun. There's also a good 1943 German version which hits.
Took the challenge of seeing I could program a Fantasy Marathon from my collection. Here were my picks (making sure there's no crossover.)
A Matter of Life and Death - You had Thief of Baghdad so I'm countering with Powell and Pressburger's other great fantasy film.
After Life - great and unusual mash-up between an after-life fantasy and a documentary.
Blancanieves - It's Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, but it's silent and they're bullfighters
The Book of Life - charming Mexican animated film that we watch every Day of the Dead
The Fabulous Baron Munchausen - the Karel Zeman film, rather than the Gilliam one or the Nazi one. Zeman was very influential on Gilliam and well worth seeing. Nothing quite like him.
The Great Yokai War - Takashi Miike's attempt at a Harry Potter franchise as well as an extended beer commercial. One of my wife's favourites.
The Holy Mountain - I only saw this recently and was blown away. We don't have Jodorowsky's Dune, but we have this.
Interstate 60 - very odd fantasy road movie from Bob Gale - one of the writers of Back to the Future and with both of the leads in minor roles.
La Antenna - a city has all its sound stolen. Great effects with captions.
The Phantom Tollbooth - Chuck Jones animated film of one of my favourite books of all time. Starring Butch Patrick.
Sampo - Russian fantasy from Aleksandr Ptushko. Based on a Finnish legend.
When the Cat Comes - a fair brings a cat with sunglasses to a small Czech town. When the sunglasses come off, the cat makes people reveal who they really are.
Zu: Warriors of the Magic Mountain - the film that inspired Big Trouble in Little China. Tsui Hark employed ILM to do the special effects.
Good choices! Well done.😀
Interesting show! I really want to seek out "1001 Nights," sounds off its head and I like that kind of thing. The Puf'n Stuff tv series...I watched it when I was a kid in grade school and it creeped me out; that patch of mushrooms that, if one of them touched you, you'd turn into one, was really scary to me.
In that case, never watch Matango. 😀😉
@@terrytalksmovies Oh, I have...I really like that film. Very weird, very creepy. The Tokyo Shock DVD looks pretty damn good.
I need to watch The Magic Sword now - it looks like it has everything I love about films. Discovering new movies through your channel has become one of my favourite things to do, Terry - thank you for sharing these with us. ❤️
When it comes to unique fantasy films, I have two recommendations:
- The polish version of The Witcher, from the early 2000s (I think). I love the books, watched the Netflix adaptation, had rather mixed feelings about it and later discovered this 20 year old predecessor at a movie-convention. It has relatively poor effects but you can tell that the actors took their craft and the material seriously.
- Iron Warrior, from 1987 I think. It is the follow-up to two of the worst films within it's genre, which basically consists of cheap, Italian copycats of Conan the Barbarian. The first two are nigh unwatchable, yet the third one had a new director, was shot on Malta (meaning that the landscape is naturally breathtaking) and suddenly demonstrated such unexpectedly great craftsmanship in all technical aspects. I have a habit of watching these messy old trash-films with my buddy and we were completely blown away by how good and coherent this one turned out to be.
A sword and sorcery festival might be a good idea.
@@terrytalksmovies I'd hit that.
Great list. I would remove Pufnstuf and replace it with the 1943 German film Munchausen. Beautiful film, stunning color. The Magic Sword is a bit cheesy but worth watching just for the cast.
Noooo, you can't removed Pufnstuf 😉 The German Munchausen is great, however.
@@terrytalksmovies How about doing a review of the German Munchausen? I think this movie is really unknown by most people.
I mean, I would have added a Harryhausen flick in there, like The 7th Voyage of Sinbad or the Golden Voyage of Sinbad, but that's about it. Or his best film, Jason and the Argonauts...
The Magic Sword is a delight, and The Thief of Bagdad is one of the best films ever made IMHO.
The Harryhausen Sinbad moves were great... except for the Sinbads, who were all a bit mid.
i'd probably add the Karel Zeman films but if you haven't already done an episode related to his work, his opus is probably worthy of its own specific attention. Others here mentioned MirrorMask (Yes!- maybe a Neil Gaiman edition?) and "Spirited Away"- also yes! was surprised to hear that "Spirited Away" has been turned into a stage musical!! (as has "My Neighbour Totoro")-I'm fascinated by stage craft and how they can create live effects, but usually such productions are very costly to see, so I'm always glad to hear that some get filmed (not as movies but filmed as stage productions) so that those with less income might still get a chance to see them. if you do Mirrormask it could be doubled up alongside Bernard Rose's first feature "Paperhouse". lastly, I've been checking out some light fantasy films from Czeck director Oldrich Lipsky including "Three Veterans", "The Mysterious Castle in the Carpathians", "Lemonade Joe", and "Adele hasn't Had Her Dinner Yet". All quite fun and inventive made under often politically conservative restraint with collaborators like Jan Svankmeyer who were at times banned by their own governments.
All of these are great suggestions.
I know you already covered this one in a previous presentation, but I’d probably try to find room for The Magic Serpent as a splendid representation of Japanese fantasy. Perhaps include it in a separate film festival of Asian fantasy films.
The Magic Serpent is great!
These are some great ones. I also love “Jack the Giant Killer”.
Or tom thumb, with Russ Tamblyn.
I can recognize a classical piece when I hear it. The intro has the last movement of Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 23 and the outro has the first movement of Vivaldi's "Spring" concerto of "The Four Seasons."
"The Thief of Baghdad" deserves to be a classic like "The Wizard of Oz." That movie can be seen on a free streaming service. My dad, when he was a kid, recall a time when he was in a movie theater and observed a movie being shown where a giant foot was about to step on someone. When I saw it on TV, if I recall correctly, it was on TNT. Maybe I'll get a physical blu-ray resease of it whenever I'm ready.
So, you asked about what other fantasy movies I've enjoyed outside of Harry Potter and The Lord of the Rings (and The Hobbit). Here's my list (in no particular order. Note the the "T" is for the ones I've seen in the theater.):
Legend
Dragonslayer
Labyrinth (T)
The Dark Crystal (T)
The NeverEnding Story (T) (The second one is not as good.)
Willow (T)
Clash of the Titans (1981)
Jason and the Argonauts (1963)
The Golden Voyage of Sinbad
The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad
That's about all I can think of.
I found some classical music on my music service Epidemic Sound. I can use it without a copyright hit on the channel.
I might have to rewatch Dragonslayer. I remember liking it.
Who is the crazy person that made that cover art for "Big Trouble..."? Why would you not use the original? It's such a classic. Cool picks. You really shook the pillars of heaven, Terry.
I did indeed.
I just picked up a copy of the standalone Pufnstuf even though I have all of the series in a boxed set.... and Big Trouble is Jack Burton at his best!
There's a comic book sequel to Big Trouble, I've heard.
One of my favorites is the Toho movie the lost Voyage of sinbad. Also low budget equinox from 1970. And the Magic serpent from the 60s
Equinox works well. Micro-budget but really interesting.
Can't remember if it was Karloff or Price who in "The Raven" offer Peter Lorre's character a glass of milk (when all he wants is red wine!) and his reply is "Vomitable" lol! From that moment on that word entered my personal lexicon and can only be said in the inimitable Lorre accent.
Vomitable is also a versatile description. 😀
Very nice piece. I actually have The Magic Sword, but have yet to watch it. I'll have to put that on pretty soon. I generally like Bert I Gordon, and I know Maila "Vampira" Nurmi's in there, somewhere. Anyway, the perfect double feature for me is Buckaroo Banzai(84) and Big Trouble In Little China(86).Firstly, W. D. Richter directed BB and wrote Big Trouble. Also, the character of David Lo-Pan from Big Trouble is a variation on Hanoi Xan- the villain for the planned sequel to Buckaroo Banzai. They're also both parodies the 80s cheese going on around them that also manage to be more suspenseful and exciting than most of the action movies they're making fun of.
Good double feature there. I'm surprised at how much fun The Magic Sword was, too.
I'd add those two movies you recommended before: The Magic Serpent and Watari Ninja boy. Also more wuxia. Even the Detective Dee movies or Lone Wolf and cub. Anything that exposes great eastern Asian swordfighting. So many people think Star Wars has the greatest sword duels which is laughable. One person saw the latest trailer for The Acolyte (Disney+ SW show) and saw the wire Fu and accused the creators of ripping off The Matrix. Eastern Asian action is so much more dynamic and fun and people should know the origin of truly great sword duels and see what they're missing!😊
Scaramouche has a fantastic sword duel, too.
WOW, Great List Terry, I Haven't seen Most of these, but I Did actually see Captain Sinbad on the Big Screen when I was a Lil Kid, and it's my Favorite Sinbad Flick!!! Scary & Creepy as Hell for THIS 3 year old!!! Also I remember seeing Pufinstuf on the Big Screen in a Double Feature with The Phantom Toll Booth!!!😄😄😄
I never saw The Phantom Tollbooth, but I hear good things about it.
@@terrytalksmovies , The Phantom Tollbooth wasn't bad as far as Child Oriented Saturday Afternoon Matinees are concerned! It starred Butch Patrick, the kid actor who played Eddie Munster of The Munsters Sitcom, and Marc from the Sid & Marty Kroft kid show, Lidsville!!! Tollbooth was actually better than I expected, as far as a 9 year olds expectations go. I had a certain Charm to it without being overly pretentious!!!😄😄😄
If we’re looking at fantasy movies, I’d chip in with a vote for ‘The 5,000 Fingers Of Doctor T’, which was scripted by Theodore Giessel aka Dr Seuss.
It wasn’t a financial or cinematic success, and that’s our loss because Dr Seuss never made another film with such direct involvement.
‘TFTFODT’ is definitely fantasy in the same displaced protagonist vein as the pre-war ‘Wizard Of Oz’ but way hella darker, which is probably why it didn’t mesh with the movie-going aspirations of 1953 audiences.
BRB, just gonna get around some of that Pufnstuf…
I'm sure I covered 5000 Fingers in an earlier video. But I love it, too.
Good list Terry. The Thief of Bagdad was directed by Michael Powell of the Powell and Pressburger team. Love all their films. I almost added their 1946 masterpiece A Matter of Life and Death to my below list but it isn't strictly a full on fantasy film, unless you believe in a black and white heaven full of filing cabinets, what oh! 😇
My list of a fantasy session could be Jean Cocteau's magnificent La Belle et la Bete, 1946, Tom Thumb 1958, Darby O'Gill and the Little People 1959; that howling banshee scared the @*!? out of me as a child. Jason and The Argonauts 1963; that creaky Talos needed oiling, Excalibur 1981 with sultry, sexy Helen Mirren, The Sword and The Sorcerer 1982, The Beastmaster 1982, Krull 1983 and The Never Ending Story 1984.
I thought of also adding In Search of The Castaways but again, not strictly a full on fantasy film though there are some fantastic natural occurrences.
Good list.
When it comes to fantasy movies I really can't ignore the sword and sorcery classics Excalibur (1891), Hawk The Slayer (1980), The Beastmaster (1982), Conan the Barbarian (1982), and especially Dragonslayer (1981). Oh yeah. Can you tell what decade I grew up in?
I probably watched at least one of those with you. 😀
@@terrytalksmovies Almost certainly. :)
I liked 'Bell Book and Candle' when I first saw it a few years ago, and the novel it was based on. I found a version om CZcams a couple of months ago and found the film unbearably slow-paced. I think I've also read the book that 'One Touch of Venus' is based on, though that was a loong time ago, and I'm fairly sure I've not seen the film at all.
I've seen bits of 'The Thief of Baghdad' but ont the whole film, though what I remember abot it, it was as you say impressive. Of the rest, I've only seen 'Big Trouble in Little China', which was totally silly but loads of fun 🙂
I love One Touch Of Venus.
Pan's Labyrinth - directed by Guillermo del Toro, Nine - Shane Acker, Merlin - the TV series, Merlin - the movie with Sam Neil, Tin Man - with Zooey Deschanel, The Adventures of Marco Polo with Gary Cooper
Marco Polo isn't fantasy. 😉
I love your crossover references, in this review, you said "not just Penthouse Letters " and did you know that in 'Big Trouble in Little China' the 'girl with the green eyes' was in real life was a 'Penthouse Pet of the Year' ? ❤
Is being a Penthouse Pet really IRL? 😯😉
@@terrytalksmovies yes !
Solid lineup, though I might pass on Pufnstuf. Let's see, as a kid I appreciated Yellow Submarine, The Phantom Tollbooth, and Ralph Bakshi's Wizards (I was turning into a precocious teenager). Thanks, Ter.
My pleasure, William.
Greetings; I have seen some of these movies and I have enjoyed them. I remember when I was a kid I was waiting for my father and I saw a piece of a Russian fantasy movie that had giants and dragons, probably based on folklore. I'd love to see it some day, but I have no idea of the name. There is a Brazilian fantasy movie based on a children's book, Pluft. It centers on a haunted house on an island and pirates come to the island. The younger ghosts don't believe in people and are frightened when the pirates arrive. Perhaps you can find it. You can add " Jason and the Argonauts". I think there are animations based on the Discworld books like "Wyrd Sisters".
I love the cast of Jason and the Argonauts... except Jason and Medea.
I might have added 'Mirrormask' and 'Spirited Away, ' and I never snapped to Sid & Marty. Happy to learn about 'Venus." I was rarely disturbed by anything I watched as a kid (I think we're almost the same age,) but in 'Magic Sword,' the scene in which the beautiful woman is revealed as some ghoulish succubus, and when the two knights are being irradiated to death bothered me a very long time. Thanks, good list!
Thanks Phil. Mirrormask I like. Spirited Away I love.
Great list Terry. I wasn't a big fan of Big Trouble In Little China although I saw it in the cinema at the time. I would add 'I Married A Witch' (1942) with Veronica Lake (the movie that inspired the TV series Bewitched I'm told) and another movie that inspired a later tv series, the original of 'The Ghost and Mrs Muir' (1947) with Rex Harrison and Gene Tierney. Check them out if you don't know them. Cheers.
I Married A Witch, I have the Criterion of that one. The Ghost And Mrs Muir is a classic and much deeper than the TV series that followed.
Great selection of movies. I have not seen those Russian films. Saw Sinbad, Big Trouble, and the Raven at the theaters. Great on the big big screen. The rest on TV/dvd. My wife grew up with Puffenstuff and has the TV series, so I will have to seek out the movie for her. Two of my personal favorites from the 50s/60s era are 7th Voyage of Sinbad, and Jason and the 7 Argonauts. 7th Voyage being the first Harryhausen fantasy film I ever say at the theater, and Jason, because I think it is his best work. And who does not like any film with Karloff, Lorre, Price, or Rathbone.
I enjoyed this fantasy film festival. So many of the fantasy films ever made are enjoyable to watch.
Thanks Garfield. The Harryhausens are a good addition.
Hi Terry,
Forbidden Zone , the Richard Elfman movie.
All That Money Can Buy (aka the Devil and Daniel Webster.)
The Kingdom of Crooked Mirrors- a Soviet era children's film which is currently available on CZcams.
P.S. Watched A Thousand and One Nights with Cornel Wilde today. Loved it. Thanks.
Good choices, Steve!
I'm interested in the Pufnstuff film. I never missed the show when I was a boy, but I don't remember the movie. It's 50 years since we lost Cass Elliot's beautiful voice, so I would love to give it a go.
Totally worth it. It's a joyous piece of fluff.
I've alway liked The Seven Faces of Dr Lao. I know Tony Randal as Dr Lao is not PC. I saw it as a kid in the 60s and it still holds a certain charm for me. Jack The Giant Killer is also a likeable fantasy film. I only mean the non musical version. Another great fantasy movie is The Five Thousand Fingers Of Dr T. It scared the H E double hockey sticks out of me when I first saw it on The Big Show. A kid at our school actually had one of the hand beanies.
Just say hell, mate. It's a safe space here.
Dr Lao suffers because of the yellowface, unfortunately.
@@terrytalksmovies Randal's performance is not as horrible as Mickey Rooney in Breakfast At Tiffanys. It's sort of on a par with Joel Grey's performance in Remo Williams. Of course those movie would have been far better with asian actors in those roles. H E double hockey sticks(to a Canadian) is much funnier than just saying hell.
Nice list. Have a few to watch ...
I guess I would add something like the 4 part Shaw Brothers "Journey To The West" adaptation, the first part being: The Monkey Goes West (1966); maybe Bava's Hercules in the Haunted World (1961 - not his best but enjoyable), Buddha’s Palm (1982) and Legend of the Eight Samurai (1983).
Great additions, thanks!
@@terrytalksmovies I would like another on, another kind of fantasy: The Original Sin (1948), I am at the moment in a Helmut Käutner addiction, and this comedy/fantasy (?) was one of the first I watched. Maybe it doesn't count really as fantasy, but it should.
I sadly never saw "The Magic Sword", if only i could see it as a kid !
I don't remember if you reviewed it yet, but i would add Terry Gilliam's "Time Bandits".
I haven't yet.
Some nice choices here, Terry. Would you believe I've not seen 'The Thief of Bagdad', need to rectify that. 'The Raven', not the best of the Corman/Poe adaptations, but certainly the one that is 'most fun'. (As I get older I'm loving Boris Karloff as an actor more and more).
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'The Champions' - great fun
I see you must be a fan of 'The Two Ronnies' - truly great comic talent the pair of them. Nobody nowadays comes close.
The Two Ronnies are Sal's.
You have to see Thief of Bagdad. It's great.
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Sal certainly knows great comedy
There should have been three watch movies. Really enjoyed the books.
The books vary a lot from the movies, too.
Nightwatch was weird as hell, but an incredibly well made movie. I had great hopes that the Russian studios were going to be making international movies, like the French do now and then. Sadly, no. I loved watching the scene with the doll head, it was like something Murnau would have thought of.
The sequel is worth it, too.
@@terrytalksmovies the only movie I could recommend is WIZARDS from 77. I had a good fantasy collection myself at one point, but it was stolen along my other movies plus an original XBOX with my SILENT HILL game still inside. I had a great copy of Brotherhood of The Wolf with all the little extras that I still get angry about because some meth freak decided to break in...
I was mesmerized when I first saw The Raven. When I saw that movie as a child I knew immediately that I wanted to be a Wizard!
The Raven is such silly fun.
Great list, and I almost hate to sully it with my suggestions- they might better occupy a midnight movie annex to the festival but, me being me, I'd nominate Deathstalker and Lucio Fulci's Conquest
I haven't seen Conquest yet but Deathstalker and all those Charles Band joints are a lot of fun.
@@terrytalksmovies Conquest is also fun but it does have that heavy-handed Fulci energy. Be in the mood for that when you give it a go. Lol
You'd love Lady Hawk it feels like a old 30s movie made in the 80s
I don't. The soundtrack takes me out of the movie. A modern synth soundtrack on a movie like that is a crime against cinema.
Seen Thief of Bagdad, Night Watch, Day Watch & Big Trouble in Little China. Hate to say The magic Sword done by MST3K. I'd say Potter & LOTR being the all for many onm fantasy is just like how many see Star Wars & Star Trek as all sci-fi is. My fantasy film fest would be: Stardust, Ladyhawke, The Dark Crystal, Legend, The Witches (1990), Dragonslayer, Excalibur, The Last Unicorn, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (kind of suck in the 80s mostly).
Fair enough list there.
A really good list of movies, i would have added the Golden Voyage of Sinbad to the list.
I love the Harryhausen SFX in the Sinbad movies but there never has been a Sinbad in them with any charisma at all.
@@terrytalksmoviesagree for the most part but Tom Baker as the sinister villain elevated this far above other Sinbad movies
Another weird one from the Sorcery genre is Milarepa. Technically, though, it's not a fantasy. It's the official historical epic about a famous historical sorcerer and the real actual sorcery that he did according to the historical record. Pretty fantastical though.
Thanks for the tip. 😀
Good list; seen and/or own most of them. Here's three for your consideration. A couple of frothy English fantasy comedies, Miranda (1948) and it's sequel Mad About Men (1954). They're both 'fish out of water' stories, only Glynis Johns is the 'fish'.
The next is an unsung Italian 80's fantasy directed by Bruno Bozzetto , Under the Chinese Restaurant (1987). Expecting my disc to arrive in a week or so.
I did a whole video about Miranda and Mad About Men. If you search Mermaid on my playlists you'll find it.
@@terrytalksmovies I just watched and enjoyed your Mermaid video and pretty much agree with all counts.
How about The Mysterious Castle in the Carpathians (1981) and Adela Has Not Had Supper Yet (1978)? I think I prefer the former to the latter; I need to re-watch both sometime this summer for a re-evaluation.
More of a traditional fantasy from Russia, was expecting to see, The Sword and the Dragon. 1956. Russian hero Illiya Mortametz, Krull was a wonderful fantasy, but Seventh Voyager of Sinbad was my top choice. If you would consider The City of Lost Children, or The Never Ending Story fantasy, so do I. Both, Pan's Labyrinth and Hanson's puppet Labyrinth qualify, Pan is quite dark and an exceptional movie. Know how you hate Disney, but surprised neither Pennochio. or The Black Caldron were missing.
Finding classic Disney on physical media is really difficult.
Jack Burton recommends a better alternative to Bell Book and Candle which is Night of the Eagle 1962.
Night of the Eagle is solid. Imprint just brought it out on blu-ray a while back, too.
I own Night/Day watch, I've seen all but Magic sword and Pufnstuf. to old for that last one. I would and The Point with music by Nilson.
The Point is fun, too.
Good choices I ve seen all but the pufnstuff seen none of that! I missed it all some how!
Give it a go. It's charming fun.
I would add Lady Hawk, Princess Bride, Willow and Army of Darkness to the film festival.
I once dated a woman who wasn't in to movies. So I thought, what can I show her that's a failsafe gotta-love-it? Of course, 'Princess Bride!? Her response was, 'Meh.' At that moment, I knew it wasn't gonna work.
Willow I don't like. George Lucas is a cardboard film maker. Lady Hawk was spoiled for me by the Tangerine Dream soundtrack which brings you out of the mediaeval millieu. Army of Darkness sits better in a horror festival, but a good choice.
People who don't like movies are pod people.
THE LOST WORLD OF SINBAD with Toshiro Mifune.
Mifune can do no wrong.
I would add Karel Zeman's masterpiece, The Fabulous Baron Munchausen.
Good addition.
Great choices! Curious. Are your blu-ray copies of "The Thief of Bagdad" & "A Thousand and One Nights" region free? The Cornel Wilde movie has never even seen a DVD release here in the States. I only have a VHS copy that was released almost 30 years ago!
1001 Nights is region free. TOB isn't.
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Pretty decent list, I don't think I'd make any changes in your choices.
I would, however, add some honorable mentions: I think Conan the Barbarian, Red Sonja, and The Sword and the Sorcerer deserve an honorable mention.
Maybe I need to do a sword and sorcery list. 😀
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Pufnstuf needs a Criterion or Imprint release.
Terry, what about Legend? Yeah, it's Tom Cruise but he was just a pup at the time. And Tim Curry's Darkness is a trip!
Legend is effing awful! 🙁😝
The fantasy movies I like are the 80s cheesy ones. Labyrinth, Legend, Flight of the Navigator, ... things like these. Even Splash, The Goonies, ... that sort of thing.
Flight of the Navigator is science fiction and Legend is laughably bad but the others are valid. 😀📽
@@terrytalksmovies I've seen Labyrinth so many times, I have literally lost count. I know that it is at least 100x. Every time I see it, it always looks a bit different, and there is always something new I notice in it, from the previous times I've seen it.
I have a few; Stardust, Legend, and The Adventures of Baron Munchausen.
Stardust is such fun.
Actually I think the Die Nebelungen (Frtitz Lang) films qualify as fantasy -- and (spoiler alert) they don't end well.
I love the dragon in that!
Thursday Roger Corman died at the age of 98. Is there any chance of a retrospective of his movies?
I'm doing something in the livestream tomorrow.
… A Matter of Life and Death?
A good omission.
I would add "Jason and the Argonauts"
Good choice. The ensemble cast apart from the ingenues, is rock solid, too.
I think I may have picked up more about Japanese culture and folklore though pop culture than Ireland itself, such seems a bit shameful.
I did try and make amends by bringing my daughter to see two animated Irish fantasy films, The Secret of Kells and Song of the Sea,. I got to see them in a small independent cinema nearby, worth catching.
Great choices, there.
What about Eva Gardner in “The Bluebird” 1976? ;)
Who is Eva Gardner? 🥺
Where is "Legend?" Another one would be "Wizards." Add "Rock n Rule" for an animated double feature.
Legend is risible. Tom Cruise is wretched in it and even the always wonderful Tim Curry doesn't save it.
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Than you so much. 😀📽
Excalibur 1981? Clash of the Titans 1981?
Oh Pufnstuf 🤣🤣🤣🤜🤛
Excalibur I have to rewatch. Clash of the Titans feels very self-conscious to me.
I always thought THE RAVEN was deliberately a comedy, which was why the horror stars seem to be having so much fun with it all-and how often did Vincent Price get to play the hero(!)?
The weakest element is Jack Nicholson as Lorre's son, who is neither period-campy enough to fit the humor, nor deliberately anachronistic enough to bounce off the gallery of Classically-Trained Actors Slicking the Ham Extra-Thick. His performance feels too much like Dick Miller's in THE TERROR-sincerely miscast ("I would advize youse tuh leave duh castle of duh Baron Von Leppie!").
Everyone goes through a training process in their careers. This was Jack's.
Great choices Terry. I love "Thief of Baghdad " "1001 Nights" and "Captain Sinbad" ( that's why you are The G.O.A.T. I've yet to meet anyone who remembers this Guy Williams gem). "Big Trouble in Little China" is my Favourite John Carpenter/Kurt Russell movie.
"The Magic Sword" & "Pufnstuf" instantly transport me back to Saturday mornings (& afternoon). Very decent dozen.
Perhaps I would add Harryhausen's "Jason and the Argonauts" & "Mysterious Island" (with Michael Craig)
Mysterious Island never hit for me. The cast is a bit meh.
Captain Sinbad was released on dvd under the Warner Archives label (WB).