Jeremy Urquhart is a writer at Collider who focuses on the Godzilla series, the films of Martin Scorsese, and anything in the action genre.
There’s an undeniable freedom intrinsic to the fantasy genre, because whatever one can imagine and execute with special effects can be realized on screen. It’s for this reason that fantasy films have always maintained some level of popularity over the decades, and as far back as the silent era, too. Filmmakers want to stretch themselves creatively, and viewers seem happy to get lost in fantastical worlds.
✕ Remove Ads Beyond being an iconic musical fantasy/family movie, The Wizard of Oz has a bold switch between black-and-white and color that feels as though it was a turning point for cinema. Again, not the first color movie, but it’s understandable why it’s often the first movie that comes to mind when thinking of early color films. Oz is still a land that one can lose themselves in, even more than eight decades on from when the film first came out.
8 'Puss in Boots: The Last Wish' Director: Joel Crawford 2011’s Puss in Boots was nothing to write home about, a mostly okay spin-off for the Shrek series that was, typical for Dreamworks, at least decently animated.
✕ Remove Ads Different sequences in The Phantom Carriage are tinted different colors, and early special effects are also utilized to make certain characters transparent and efficiently ghostly. Some might consider it all looks a bit primitive, and yes, it is old, but this is all easy to appreciate as being visionary stuff for the time it was released, and a good deal of it still looks cool when watched today.
4 'Pan's Labyrinth' Director: Guillermo del Toro Pan's Labyrinth is a movie that manages to contrast a couple of different pairs of things very well. It’s a movie that manages to be beautiful and grotesque in tandem, given it works as both a gritty war movie and a dark fantasy film, with the protagonist spending time in both the real world and a fantasy one; both grim, but the latter perhaps less horrifying than the former.
✕ Remove Ads Dreams is a top-tier art film, and an undeniably successful attempt at doing just what it sets out to do. It turns out that yes, Kurosawa’s dreams are more cinematic than most people’s. The use of color throughout is genuinely stunning, with just about every image popping visually in much the same way that his 1980s work – namely, the non-fantasy movies Kagemusha and Ran – also looked incredible.
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