Name unconventional/exceptional mystical/fantasy films

[echorec]

If your picks feature sorcery, succubi, or alchemists, you get bonus cool points.

[echorec]

Occult/horror works, too, but I'm looking for less traditional material and/or protagonists/antagonists.

I'll name two to get the thread started.

Kenneth Anger's Lucifer Rising and Jodorowsky's El Topo---

[tremolo3]

Not a big fan but on top of Jorodowsky's these come to mind right now:

Shadows of forgotten ancestors
The color of pomegranates
Valerie and her week of wonders

[waltdogg]

holy mountain (not the stupid sleep album)

enter the void

[$harkToootth]

WIZARDS - Dir. Ralph Bakshi (one of my all time favorite filmmakers [COON SKIN is his masterpiece; not fantasy. He also did the first adaptation of THE HOBBIT])

PEACE ON EARTH - MGM Short from 1939 - Talking animals tell the story of the last human. Inadvertently misanthropic masterpiece. Flat out timeless imo.


If you're into Jorodowsky check out the Quay Brothers. Masters of stop-motion animation. Not quite fantasy as we know it. If you like that check out Jan Svankmajer, also a maestro of stop motion and much more fantasy oriented.

If you like Anime....nothing tops...the black swordsman...I'm talking about the one and only Guts..
BERSERK!!!


You probably know LEGEND from the 80's. Personally, I think that movie sucks. A lesser known 80's gem is LADY IN WHITE (although the last act of the film is capital R - Retarded)


Then you have your flagship Terry Gilliam (who was very inspired by Svankmajer) movies (TIME BANDITS, MUNCHAUSEN etc.) some other shit...I think fantasy is best represented in anime (SPIRITED AWAY, PRINCESS MONONOKE etc.)

[$harkToootth]

I think all the other fantasy I know of (besides mainstream stuff) fall into the category of silent film or stop-motion.
HAXAN: WITCHCRAFT THROUGH THE AGES (I find movies like this are less interesting on a narrative level and much more suited to playing in the background with some cool tunes on)

[$harkToootth]

Forgot about THE DEVILS - 1971 a Ken Russell gem. Generally speaking anything with Oliver Reed is awesome.


Eh, I'm calling this one fantasy. PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE - 1974 Brian DePalma Musical Extravaganza. I'll let the trailer speak for it...certainly unconventional.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2n5qVJEg3qA[/youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2n5qVJEg3qA

[repoman]

[jrfox92]

WIZARDS - Dir. Ralph Bakshi (one of my all time favorite filmmakers [COON SKIN is his masterpiece; not fantasy. He also did the first adaptation of THE HOBBIT])

Paging Snipelfritz.

Wait, shit, was it Snipelfritz? I don't even remember anymore.

[repoman]

[Eivind August]

Glad to see some of my favourites already mentioned! Fuck yeah, Zardoz.

Remember finding Taste of Tea to be sort of intriguing. Svankmajer's Faust is also good, as is Le sang d'un poète. Oh, and check out Fantastic Planet and Gandahar. And you might like Herzog's Fata Morgana?

[Blackened Soul]

WIZARDS - Dir. Ralph Bakshi (one of my all time favorite filmmakers [COON SKIN is his masterpiece; not fantasy. He also did the first adaptation of THE HOBBIT])

Not the hobit... Lord of the rings.. the good one... Also.. fire and ice..

You probably know LEGEND from the 80's. Personally, I think that movie sucks. A lesser known 80's gem is LADY IN WHITE (although the last act of the film is capital R - Retarded)

You will now turn in your goth card and stand in the corner alone and think about what you said AND YOU WILL PRAY TO TIM CURRY FOR FORGIVENESS!
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-G9U1QY4UDs[/youtube]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-G9U1QY4UDs

Then you have your flagship Terry Gilliam (who was very inspired by Svankmajer) movies (TIME BANDITS, MUNCHAUSEN etc.) some other shit...

Jabberwocky... Tideland... Zero Theorem... The Brothers Grim.. Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus....

I think fantasy is best represented in anime (SPIRITED AWAY, PRINCESS MONONOKE etc.)

Ok, name a non gibli one..



Ok then... off the top of my head..

Troll [if you want to know where the name Harry Potter came from..
Dragon Slayer
The Hog Father
Ray Harryhausen movies - you must watch them all
Pan's Labyrinth
Labyrinth
Krull
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
The NeverEnding Story
Blancanieves
The Seventh Seal

[$harkToootth]

I forgot about FIRE AND ICE! For whatever reason I associate Bakshi with gritty urban dramas ala COON SKIN and HEAVY TRAFFIC. Also, I should have remembered THE HOBBIT was Ranklin/Bass (whose films I adore). There is this one Ranklin/Bass production that is sooo far out, one of their last ones. THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF SANTA CLAUS
I would...


Regarding gibli, I did in my initial post...BESERK. I also like SPICE & WOLF . I've watched a ton of shitty OVA's too (I went through an old harddrive this week and found lots of GENOCYBER and FIST OF THE NORTH STAR :woot:). NEON GENESIS is probably one of my 10 favorite things I have done in my life

I like BEDKNOBS & BROOMSTICKS too. Filmed versions of THE NUTCRACKER can get pretty trippy too.

Or...we can get real weird...

NSFW: show

[$harkToootth]

Oh shit, this is categorized as "fantasy". This movie is the shit. A TOWN CALLED PANIC

[popvulture]

Just here to echo that Phantom of the Paradise is epically fantastic.

Edit: also saw the remastered version of Stalker (Tarkovsky), which was extremely weird and wonderful.