Fantasy Movies
The Man Who Saved the World (1982)
Two space cadets crash-land on a desert planet, where an evil wizard seeks the ultimate power to take over the world. Although the movie borrows some background footage from Star…
The Flight of Dragons (1982)
The realm of magic is being threatened by the realm of logic, so Carolinus, the green wizard decides to shield it for all time. Ommadon, the evil red wizard, stands…
The Beastmaster (1982)
Dar, is the son of a king, who’s hunted by a priest after his birth and grows up in another family. When he becomes a grown man, his new father…
The Secret of NIMH (1982)
A widowed field mouse must move her family — including an ailing son — to escape a farmer’s plow. Aided by a crow and a pack of superintelligent, escaped lab…
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
An alien is left behind on Earth and saved by the 10-year-old Elliot who decides to keep him hidden in his home. While a task force hunts for the extra-terrestrial,…
Conan the Barbarian (1982)
A horde of rampaging warriors massacre the parents of young Conan and enslave the young child for years on The Wheel of Pain. As the sole survivor of the childhood…
The Sword and the Sorcerer (1982)
A mercenary with a three-bladed sword rediscovers his royal heritage when he is recruited to help a princess foil a brutal tyrant and a powerful sorcerer’s plans to conquer the…
Sorceress (1982)
To maintain his powers, the evil wizard Traigon must sacrifice his firstborn child to the god Caligara. His wife, however, has other ideas and runs away after giving birth with…
The Beast Within (1982)
A horrified teen mutates into a crazed cannibalistic swamp creature, and must uncover the terrifying secret identity of his father before his nasty natural tendencies force him to make jambalaya…
Stuck on You! (1982)
A couple with marriage problems goes to Family Court, where a judge takes them back in time to view lovers through the ages.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1981)
Four Athenians run away to the forest only to have Puck the fairy make both of the boys fall in love with the same girl. The four run through the…
Freak Orlando (1981)
FREAK ORLANDO is divided into five more-or-less distinct sections, all featuring “Freak” Orlando, a woman, played by the late Magdalena Montezuma, who appears in various guises, and deformities, throughout.
Saturday the 14th (1981)
After his family moves to a new house, a young boy discovers a mysterious book that details a curse hanging over the date of Saturday the 14th. Opening the book…
Son of the White Mare (1981)
A horse goddess gives birth to three powerful brothers who set out into the Underworld to save three princesses from three evil dragons and reclaim their ancestors’ lost kingdom.
Bewitched (1981)
While possessed by an evil spirit, a man murders his daughter. A police detective investigating the case also becomes possessed. A good monk helps fight the evil spirit.
Heavy Metal (1981)
The embodiment of ultimate evil, a glowing orb terrorizes a young girl with bizarre stories of dark fantasy, eroticism and horror.
Full Moon High (1981)
High-school quarterback Tony Walker is bitten by a werewolf and transforms into a growling beast that hungrily chases down beautiful girls.
Time Bandits (1981)
Young history buff Kevin can scarcely believe it when six dwarfs emerge from his closet one night. Former employees of the Supreme Being, they’ve purloined a map charting all of…
School in the Crosshairs (1981)
Mitamura Yuka is a normal, shy high school student. Except for the fact that she has psychic powers. When a new student with similar powers begins to show her skills,…
Dragonslayer (1981)
A sorcerer and his apprentice are on a mission to kill an evil dragon to save the King’s daughter from being sacrificed according to a pact that the King himself…
Clash of the Titans (1981)
To win the right to marry his love, the beautiful princess Andromeda, and fulfil his destiny, half-God-half-mortal Perseus must complete various tasks including taming Pegasus, capturing Medusa’s head and battling…
Excalibur (1981)
A surreal adaptation of Sir Thomas Malory’s “Le Morte d’Arthur” chronicling Arthur Pendragon’s conception, his rise to the throne, the search by his Knights of the Round Table for the…
The Devil and Max Devlin (1981)
When Max dies in an accident, he goes straight to Hell. But the Devil Barney makes him an offer: if he manages to get three innocent youths to sell him…
Presents (1981)
In the Shadow of the Sun (1981)
‘The Shadow of the Sun’ draws upon Derek Jarman’s interest with alchemical processes as a metaphor for reprocessing Super-8 film. Jarman once described film’s union of light and matter as…
The Ghosts of Buxley Hall (1980)
Ghosts and a young cadet try to save a military academy from being closed.
Mr. Krueger’s Christmas (1980)
Willy Krueger, a lonely and aging widower, lives in a basement apartment with only his cat George for company. Finishing his work for the day as the custodian for the…