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- The Fairy Tale Movie: This Asian horror is loosely based upon an old Korean folk story and runs with the traditional fairy tale plot devices of a wicked stepmother, a coming of age journey and a liberal dose of the supernatural.
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- Photo: A24. 15 votes. The Witch. Heavily inspired by Grim Fairy tales and the real-life prosecutions of witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts, The Witch is one of the most profound, heartstopping, and magnificent feats of cinematic achievement the horror world has ever seen.
- Photo: Pan's Labyrinth. 14 votes. Pan's Labyrinth. Guillermo del Toro created his own wonderfully haunting and glorious fairy tale in his 2006 masterpiece, Pan's Labyrinth.
- Photo: Gretel & Hansel. 11 votes. Gretel & Hansel: A Grim Fairy Tale. A story ripped straight out of the Grim fairy tale archive, Gretel & Hansel: A Grim Fairy Tale is a severely underrated film that oozes style and atmosphere while simultaneously creating a sinister and diabolical world in which audiences are entranced by and never wish to leave.
- Photo: The Lure / WFDiF. 17 votes. The Lure. One of the most underrated and underappreciated horror films to release in the last 10 years, The Lure is a slick, stylish, and devilish thriller about the world of mermaids, and how horrifying sirens actually are.
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- November (2017) Written and directed by Rainer Sarnet and based on a novel by Andrus Kivirähk, with elements from classic Estonian folk tales, the dark fantasy drama November is set in a 19th-century village inhabited by spirits, werewolves, the Devil, and a supernatural automaton.
- Snow White: A Tale of Terror (1997) Directed by Michael Cohn, Snow White: A Tale of Terror stars Sigourney Weaver as the stepmother Claudia Hoffman, Sam Neill as Snow White’s father, Frederick Hoffman, Monica Keena as Lilli Hoffman/Snow White, and Gil Bellows as the reluctant hero Will.
- Little Otík (2000) Also known by its creepier title Greedy Cuts, the surreal Czech stop-animation Little Otík is directed by Jan Švankmajer and Eva Švankmajerová and inspired by the folktale Otesánek by Karel Jaromír Erben.
- Guillermo Del Toro's Pinocchio (2022) Based on Carlo Collodi’s classic novel The Adventures of Pinocchio, centering on a wooden puppet who is magically turned into a human boy in order to ease the pain of a grieving woodcarver, the Oscar-winning stop-motion musical Pinocchio, directed by Guillermo Del Toro, features the voices of Gregory Mann, Ewan McGregor, David Bradley, Christoph Waltz, Tilda Swinton, Cate Blanchett, and Ron Perlman.
- 10 Gretel & Hansel
- 9 Hunted
- 8 Good Manners
- 7 Tale of Tales
- 6 The Lure
- 5 The Red Shoes
- 4 A Tale of Two Sisters
- 3 Darkness Falls
- 2 Little Otik/Greedy Guts
- 1 Panna A Netvor
Directed by Oz Perkins and written by Rob Hayes, this horror film reimagines the Grimms’ Fairy Tales’ Hansel and Gretel story published in 1812.Gretel & Hanselfollows similar beats to the original fairy tale with the siblings being lost in the woods and finding a lone house occupied by an owner, who is nice but gives them an uneasy feeling. However...
Advertised by Shudder as a “modern and radical take” on the story of Little Red Riding Hood, director Vincent Paronnaud’s Hunted is a survival horror story about a woman named Eve who ends up being pursued by two men through the woods after her night out at the bar. Throughout the film, Eve fights to stay alive, first as prey before she becomes a h...
Good Manners by directors Juliana Rojas and Marco Dutra is a dark fantasy film that doesn’t necessarily take inspiration from one specific fairy tale. Rather, inspiration came from an amalgamation of fairy tales and folklore which helped them to craft their contemporary fairy tale that both horrifies and touches on social issues related to race and...
Directed by Matteo Garrone, Tale of Tales tells three stories in one film, all based on the Italian poet and fairy tale collector Giambattista Basile’s Pentamerone. As to be expected with fairy tales of the past, the stories within the collection are very gruesome and horrifically bleak and the film adaptation doesn’t back with the horror either. G...
The Lure is a Polish horror film inspired by Hans Christian Anderson’s The Little Mermaid. The movie ramps up the underlying gloom and fantastical nature of the original fairy tale, making The Lure part musical, part comedy, and part horror. Taking place in 1980s Poland, two mermaid sisters, Golden and Silver, find themselves on land where they soo...
Directed by Kim Yong-gyun, The Red Shoes is a Korean horror film that does its take on another one of Hans Christian Anderson’s story of the same name. The Hans Christian Anderson version tells the tale of a girl so in love with her red shoes that she wears them everywhere, even at the most inappropriate times, and ends up becoming cursed to dance ...
The fascinating thing about fairy tales and folklore is that many cultures have their own set of stories specific to their region, and those stories can make for good material for a freighting on-screen adaptation. A Tales of Two Sisters, directed and written by The Last Stand’s Kim Jee-woon, gets its horror influences from the Joseon Dynasty folkl...
While the Tooth Fairy doesn’t come from a specific story, many consider the simple lore of the magical creature who swaps children’s teeth for money to be just as memorable as any other fairy tale. The Tooth Fairy is a rather wholesome magical creature untouched by any of the horror associated with the fairy tales of the past. However, the movie Da...
Little Otik, also known as Greedy Guts, is an acclaimed horror film that combines live action with surreal stop-motion animation to weave a story based on the 19th-century Czech fairy tale, Otesánek by Karel Jaromír Erben. After a couple learns they can’t have children, the husband takes it upon himself to craft a baby out of a tree stump that come...
Panna a Netvor, also known as Beauty in the Beast in English, is Juraj Herz's Czech adaptation of the classic fairy tale about a young woman who falls in love with a terrifying monster. The visuals and lighting of the film closely match what one would see in the horror genre, specifically gothic horror, with a dark gloomy color palette that manages...
A dark fairy tale about a gang of five children trying to survive the horrific violence of the cartels and the ghosts created every day by the drug war.
Jun 22, 2023 · Without paying homage to the horror of folklore, "Fairy Tale" would be just another Disney film, and that would go against the spirit of the novel. Stephen King adaptations depend on the director...
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Aug 9, 2024 · Key Takeaways. Classic fairy tales can be turned into horrifying films with dark twists, like in Deadtime Stories and Wishmaster. Grief, obsession, and vanity are explored in the deeply...
Oct 8, 2024 · From these disparate fairy tales, plenty of fodder for campfires, Kobayashi creates a mythos for his country’s haunted past: We are nothing if not the pawns of all those to come before.
