The ABCs of Death (2012)
Rating: ★★★
Horror Anthology
Director: Aaron Becker, Nacho Vigalondo, Adrian Garcia Bogliano, Ernesto Diaz Espinoza, …
Actors: Adam Wingard, Simon Barrett, Neil Maskell, Michael Smiley
Category: Horror
Adventures in Dinosaur City (1991)
Rating: 0
Kids Trapped Inside a Dinosaur TV Show
Director: Brett Thompson
Actors: Omri Katz, Tiffanie Poston, Shawn Hoffman, Tony Doyle, …
Category: Science Fiction
The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle (2000)
Rating: ★★
Characters From a Cartoon Series Enter the Real World
Director: Des McAnuff
Actors: Robert De Niro, Rene Russo, Jason Alexander, Randy Quaid, …
Category: Fantasy
Anguish (1987)
Rating: ★★½
Meta-Fictional Slasher Film
Director: Bigas Luna
Actors: Michael Lerner, Zelda Rubinstein, Talia Paul, Clara Pastor, …
Category: Horror
The Baby of Mâcon (1993)
Rating: ★★★★
Miraculous Child/Meta-Fiction
Director: Peter Greenaway
Actors: Julia Ormond, Ralph Fiennes, Philip Stone
Category: Fantasy
Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon (2006)
Rating: ★★★★
Slasher Parody/Mockumentary
Director: Scott Glosserman
Actors: Nathan Baesal, Angela Goethals, Kate Lang Johnson, Robert Englund, …
Category: Horror
Blackeyes (1989)
Rating: ★★★
Character in a Book Comes to Life
Director: Dennis Potter
Actors: Gina Bellman, Michael Gough, Nigel Planer
Category: Fantasy
Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 (2000)
Rating: ★★½
Blair Witch Project Sequel
Director: Joe Berlinger
Actors: Jeffrey Donovan, Kim Director, Erica Leerhsen
Category: Horror
Brenda Starr (1989)
Rating: ★
Girl Reporter Comic-Strip Adaptation
Director: Robert Ellis Miller
Actors: Brooke Shields, Timothy Dalton, Tony Peck, Diana Scarwid, …
Category: Fantasy
The Cabin in the Woods (2012)
Rating: ★★★½
Meta-Fictional Horror Film
Director: Drew Goddard
Actors: Kristen Connolly, Chris Hemsworth, Fran Kranz, Anna Hutchison, …
Category: Horror
Camera Shy (2012)
Rating: ★★★
Man Realises He is a Character in a Film
Director: Mark Sawers
Actors: Nicholas Wright, Gerard Plunkett, Lara Gilchrist, Hilary Jardine, …
Category: Fantasy
Curtains (1983)
Rating: ★★★
Slasher Film
Director: Richard Ciupka
Actors: John Vernon, Samantha Eggar, Linda Thorson, Lynne Griffin, …
Category: Horror
The Dark Half (1993)
Rating: ★★★
Writer’s Evil Doppelganger/Stephen King Adaptation
Director: George A. Romero
Actors: Timothy Hutton, Amy Madigan, Michael Rooker, Julie Harris, …
Category: Horror
The Dark Stranger (2015)
Rating: ★★
Boogeyman Emerges from a Graphic Novel
Director: Chris Trebilcock
Actors: Katie Findlay, Enrico Colantoni, Alex Ozerov, Stephen McHattie, …
Category: Horror
The Dead Don’t Die (2019)
Rating: ★★½
Zombie Comedy
Director: Jim Jarmusch
Actors: Bill Murray, Adam Driver, Tilda Swinton, Chloe Sevigny, …
Category: Horror
Deadpool 2 (2018)
Rating: ★★★★
Marvel Comics Superhero
Director: David Leitch
Actors: Ryan Reynolds, Josh Brolin, Julian Dennison, Morena Baccarin, …
Category: Science Fiction
Deadpool (2016)
Rating: ★★★★
Marvel Comics Superhero
Director: Tim Miller
Actors: Ryan Reynolds, Morena Baccarin, Ed Skrein, T.J. Miller, …
Category: Science Fiction
Delirious (1991)
Rating: ★
Writer Trapped Inside a TV Soap Opera
Director: Tom Mankiewicz
Actors: John Candy, Mariel Hemingway, Emma Samms, David Rasche, …
Category: Fantasy
Demons (1985)
Rating: ★★★
Possessed Undead Take Over a Cinema
Director: Lamberto Bava
Actors: Natasha Hovey, Urbano Barberini, Karl Zinny, Fiore Argento
Category: Horror
Dreams (1990)
Rating: ★★★★★
Japanese Fantasy Anthology
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Actors: Akira Terao, Martin Scorcese, Mitsunori Isaki, Mitsuko Baisho, …
Category: Fantasy
The Editor (2014)
Rating: ★★★
Giallo Parody
Director: Adam Brooks, Matthew Kennedy
Actors: Adam Brooks, Matthew Kennedy, Conor Sweeney, Paz de la Huerta, …
Category: Horror
Fat Albert (2004)
Rating: ★
Cartoon Characters Enter the Real World
Director: Joel Zwick
Actors: Kenan Thompson, Kyla Pratt, Dania Ramirez, Jermaine C. Williams, …
Category: Fantasy
The Final Girls (2015)
Rating: ★★★★
Characters Trapped Inside a Slasher Movie/Meta-Fictional Parody
Director: Todd Strauss-Schulson
Actors: Taissa Farmiga, Malin Akerman, Alexander Ludwig, Alia Shawkat, …
Category: Horror
The Footstep Man (1992)
Rating: ★★★
Ghost Emerges from a Film
Director: Leon Narbey
Actors: Steven Grives, Jennifer Ward-Lealand, Rosey Jones, Michael Hurst, …
Category: Fantasy
Forbidden City Cop (1996)
Rating: ★★★★
Gonzo Hong Kong Comedy/Period Spy Film
Director: Stephen Chow, Vincent Kuk
Actors: Stephen Chow, Carina Lau, Carmen Lee, Tat-Ming Cheung, …
Category: Fantasy
Funny Games (1997)
Rating: ★★★★
Sadism and Torture
Director: Michael Haneke
Actors: Susanne Lothar, Arno Frisch, Ulrich Muhe, Frank Giering, …
Category: Horror
Funny Games U.S. (2007)
Rating: ★★★
Sadism and Torture
Director: Michael Haneke
Actors: Naomi Watts, Tim Roth, Michael Pitt, Brady Corbet, …
Category: Horror
Garfield Gets Real (2007)
Rating: ★★
Lazy Talking Cat/Animation
Director: Mark A.Z. Dippé, Kyung Ho Lee
Actors: Frank Welker, Gregg Berger, Audrey Wasilewski, Greg Eagles, …
Category: Fantasy
Goosebumps (2015)
Rating: ★★
Horror Writer’s Creations Unleashed
Director: Rob Letterman
Actors: Jack Black, Dylan Minette, Odeya Rush, Amy Ryan, …
Category: Horror
Grave Encounters 2 (2012)
Rating: ★★★
Found Footage/Meta-Fictional Sequel
Director: John Poliquin
Actors: Richard Harmon, Dylan Playfair, Sean Rogerson
Category: Horror
Happily N’Ever After (2006)
Rating: 0
Animation/Fairytale Deconstruction
Director: Paul Bolger
Actors: Sarah Michelle Gellar, Freddie Prinze Jr, Andy Dick, Wallace Shawn, …
Category: Fantasy
House of VHS (2016)
Rating: ★
People Sucked Inside a VCR
Director: Gautier Cazenave
Actors: Ewan Blumenstein, Petur Sigurosson, Isabel McCann, Morgan Lamorte, …
Category: Horror
I, Madman (1989)
Rating: ★★★
Killer Emerges from a Book
Director: Tibor Takacs
Actors: Jenny Wright, Randall William Cook, Clayton Rohner, Stephanie Hodge, …
Category: Horror
The Icicle Thief (1989)
Rating: ★★★★
Characters Enter a Film/Comedy
Director: Maurizio Nichetti
Actors: Maurizio Nichetti, Caterina Sylos Labini, Federico Rizzo, Heidi Komarek, …
Category: Fantasy
The Illusionauts (2012)
Rating: ★½
Animation/Adventures Inside an Author’s Imagination
Director: Eduardo Schuldt
Category: Science Fiction
In Another Country (2012)
Rating: ★★★½
South Korean Alternate Storylines Film
Director: Hong Sang-soo
Actors: Isabelle Huppert, Yu Junsang, Kwon Hae Hyo, Jung Yumi, …
Category: Fantasy
In the Mouth of Madness (1995)
Rating: ★★★½
Meta-Fictional Horrors
Director: John Carpenter
Actors: Sam Neill, Jurgen Prochnow, Julie Carmen, Charlton Heston, …
Category: Horror
Inkheart (2008)
Rating: ★★
Man Can Bring Fictional Characters to Life
Director: Iain Softley
Actors: Brendan Fraser, Paul Bettany, Andy Serkis, Helen Mirren, …
Category: Fantasy
Kantemir (2015)
Rating: ★★½
Cursed Play Takes Over Its Actors
Director: Ben Samuels
Actors: Robert Englund, Justine Griffiths, Daniel Gadi, Diane Cary, …
Category: Horror
Last Action Hero (1993)
Rating: ★★★★
Adventures Inside the Movie Screen/Action Movie Parody
Director: John McTiernan
Actors: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Charles Dance, Austin O'Brien, Robert Prosky, …
Category: Fantasy
The Last Horror Film (1982)
Rating: ★★½
Maniac Stalks Actress Through the Cannes Festival
Director: David Winters
Actors: Joe Spinnell, Caroline Munro, Judd Hamilton
Category: Horror
The League of Gentlemen’s Apocalypse (2005)
Rating: ★★½
TV Characters Enter the Real World
Director: Steve Bendelack
Actors: Mark Gatiss, Steve Pemberton, Reece Shearsmith, David Warner, …
Category: Fantasy
The Lego Ninjago Movie (2017)
Rating: ★★★
Animation/Adventures in the Lego Universe
Director: Charlie Bean, Paul Fisher, Bob Logan, Paul Currie
Actors: Dave Franco, Justin Theroux, Olivia Munn, Fred Armisen, …
Category: Fantasy
Lights Camera Dead (2007)
Rating: ★★★
Slasher on a Horror Movie Set
Director: Tim Reaper
Actors: Wes Reid, Monica Moehring
Category: Horror
Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003)
Rating: ★★★½
Toon Adventures
Director: Joe Dante
Actors: Brendan Fraser, Jenna Elfman, Steve Martin, Timothy Dalton, …
Category: Fantasy
Lost in Austen (2008)
Rating: ★★★★
Modern Woman Trapped Inside Pride and Prejudice
Director: Dan Zeff
Actors: Jemima Rooper, Elliot Cowan, Tom Mison, Hugh Bonneville, …
Category: Fantasy
Meet the Spartans (2008)
Rating: ½
Parodies of Various Films
Director: Jason Friedberg, Aaron Seltzer
Actors: Sean Maguire, Carmen Electra, Kevin Sorbo, Ken Davitian, …
Category: Fantasy
Millennium Actress (2001)
Rating: ★★
Anime/Actress’s Surreal Biography
Director: Satoshi Kon
Category: Fantasy
The Monkey King (2001)
Rating: ★½
Epic Chinese Legend
Director: Peter MacDonald
Actors: Thomas Gibson, Bai Ling, Russell Wong, Eddie Marsan, …
Category: Fantasy
The Neverending Story (1984)
Rating: ★★½
Fantasy Adventure Inside an Interactive Book
Director: Wolfgang Petersen
Actors: Noah Hathaway, Barret Oliver, Tami Stronarch, Sydney Bromley, …
Category: Fantasy
The Neverending Story II: The Next Chapter (1990)
Rating: ★
Adventures in a Fantasy Land
Director: George Miller (ii)
Actors: Jonathan Brandis, Clarissa Burt, John Wesley Shipp, Thomas Hill, …
Category: Fantasy
The Neverending Story III (1994)
Rating: 0
Adventures in a Fantasy Land
Director: Peter MacDonald
Actors: Jason James Richter, Jack Black, Kevin McNulty, Freddie Jones, …
Category: Fantasy
Night at the Museum 2 (2009)
Rating: ★★
Museum Exhibits Come to Life
Director: Shawn Levy
Actors: Ben Stiller, Amy Adams, Owen Wilson, Hank Azaria, …
Category: Fantasy
Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb (2014)
Rating: ★
Museum Exhibits Come to Life
Director: Shawn Levy
Actors: Ben Stiller, Robin Williams, Owen Wilson, Steve Coogan, …
Category: Fantasy
Nightmares & Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King (2006)
Rating: ★★★
Stephen King Anthology
Director: Brian Henson, Mark Haber, Rob Bowman, Mikael Salomon, …
Actors: William Hurt, Bruce Spence, Mia Sara, Claire Forlani, …
Category: Horror
The Nines (2007)
Rating: ★★★★
Reality Bender
Director: John August
Actors: Ryan Reynolds, Melissa McCarthy, Hope Davis, Elle Fanning, …
Category: Fantasy
The Number 23 (2007)
Rating: ½
Numerological Obsession and Paranoia/Reality Bender
Director: Joel Schumacher
Actors: Jim Carrey, Virginia Madsen, Logan Lerman, Danny Huston, …
Category: Fantasy
One Cut of the Dead (2017)
Rating: ★★★★
Zombies on a Zombie Film Set Comedy
Director: Shinichiro Ueda
Category: Horror
Over Your Dead Body (2014)
Rating: ★★★
Roles From a Play Haunt Their Actors’ Lives
Director: Takashi Miike
Actors: Ebizo Ichikawa, Ko Shibasaki, Hitomo Katayama, Hideaki Ito, …
Category: Horror
The Pagemaster (1994)
Rating: ★★½
Adventures in the Land of Fiction
Director: Joe Johnston
Actors: Macaulay Culkin, Christopher Lloyd, Ed Begley Jr, Mel Harris, …
Category: Fantasy
Pleasantville (1998)
Rating: ★★★½
Trapped Inside a 1950s TV Show
Director: Gary Ross
Actors: Tobey Maguire, Reese Witherspoon, Joan Allen, Jeff Daniels, …
Category: Fantasy
Princes and Princesses (1999)
Rating: ★★★★
Animated Fairytale Anthology
Director: Michel Ocelot
Actors: Arlette Mirapeu, Philippe Cheytion, Yves Barasq
Category: Fantasy
The Projectionist (1971)
Rating: ★★★
Movie Projectionist’s Daydreams
Director: Harry Hurwitz
Actors: Chuck McCann, Rodney Dangerfield, Ina Balin, Jara Kohout, …
Category: Fantasy
Providence (1977)
Rating: ★★★
Meta-Fiction
Director: Alain Resnais
Actors: John Gielgud, Dirk Bogarde, Ellen Burstyn, David Warner, …
Category: Fantasy
The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985)
Rating: ★★★★
Character Steps Out of a Film
Director: Woody Allen
Actors: Mia Farrow, Jeff Daniels, Danny Aiello
Category: Fantasy
Re-Cycle (2006)
Rating: ★★★
Fantastical Dream World of Discarded Ideas
Director: Oxide Pang, Danny Pang
Category: Fantasy
Reality (2014)
Rating: ★★★
Gonzo Surrealism/Blurring of Dream and Fiction
Director: Quentin Dupieux
Actors: Alain Chabat, Jonathan Lambert, Kyla Kenedy, Jon Heder, …
Category: Fantasy
The Road to Hong Kong (1962)
Rating: ★★★
Screwball Comedy
Director: Norman Panama
Actors: Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, Joan Collins, Robert Morley, …
Category: Science Fiction
Road to Morocco (1942)
Rating: ★★½
Screwball Comedy
Director: David Butler
Actors: Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, Dorothy Lamour, Anthony Quinn, …
Category: Fantasy
Romance Joe (2011)
Rating: ★★½
Interwoven Tales and Meta-Fiction
Director: Lee Kwang-kuk
Actors: Kim Yeong-pil, David Lee, Jo Han-cheol, Shin Dong-mi, …
Category: Fantasy
Rubber (2010)
Rating: ★★★★
Killer Car Tire/Meta-Fictional Monster Movie Parody
Director: Quentin Dupieux
Actors: Stephen Spinella, Wings Hauser, Jack Plotnick, Roxane Mesquida, …
Ruby Sparks (2012)
Rating: ★★★
Writer Brings His Ideal Woman to Life
Director: Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris
Actors: Paul Dano, Zoe Kazan, Chris Messina, Steve Coogan, …
Category: Fantasy
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (2019)
Rating: ★★
Stories Come to Life to Kill People
Director: Andre Øvredal
Actors: Zoe Colletti, Michael Garza, Gabriel Rush, Austin Zajur, …
Category: Horror
Scre4m (2011)
Rating: ★★★½
Slasher Sequel Parody/Deconstruction
Director: Wes Craven
Actors: Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, David Arquette, Emma Roberts, …
Category: Horror
Scream (1996)
Rating: ★★★★
Slasher Movie Parody/Deconstruction
Director: Wes Craven
Actors: Neve Campbell, Skeet Ulrich, Matthew Lillard, David Arquette, …
Category: Horror
Scream 2 (1997)
Rating: ★★½
Slasher Sequel Parody/Deconstruction
Director: Wes Craven
Actors: Neve Campbell, David Arquette, Courteney Cox, Jamie Kennedy, …
Category: Horror
Scream 3 (2000)
Rating: ★★
Slasher Sequel Parody/Deconstruction
Director: Wes Craven
Actors: Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox Arquette, David Arquette, Parker Posey, …
Category: Horror
Seed of Chucky (2004)
Rating: ★★★
Child’s Play Sequel
Director: Don Mancini
Actors: Jennifer Tilly, Brad Dourif, Billy Boyd, Redman, …
Category: Horror
She Wolf Rising (2016)
Rating: ★
Werewolf Scream Queen
Director: Marc Leland
Actors: Tiffany Shepis, Timothy Mandala, J. Edmund Fond, Brandon Ellis, …
Category: Horror
Skeleton Crew (2009)
Rating: ★★
Disturbed Film Director Recreates Snuff Movies
Director: Tommi Lepola, Tero Molin
Category: Horror
The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes and Arthur Conan Doyle (2005)
Rating: ★★★
Arthur Conan Doyle Biopic-Mystery/Meta-Fiction
Director: Cilla Ware
Actors: Douglas Henshall, Tim McInnerny, Brian Cox, Allan Corduner, …
Category: Fantasy
Stranger Than Fiction (2006)
Rating: ★★★½
Man Discovers He is a Fictional Character
Director: Marc Forster
Actors: Will Ferrell, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Emma Thompson, Dustin Hoffman, …
Category: Fantasy
Synecdoche, New York (2008)
Rating: ★★★★
Meta-Fiction and Surrealism
Director: Charlie Kaufman
Actors: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Samantha Morton, Catherine Keener, Tom Noonan, …
Category: Fantasy
Teen Titans Go! To the Movies (2018)
Rating: ★★★
Animation/Comic-Book Superhero Team
Director: Aaron Horvath, Peter Rida Michail
Actors: Scott Menville, Greg Cipes, Khary Payton, Tara Strong, …
Category: Science Fiction
The Testament of Orpheus (1960)
Rating: ★★★★
French Existentialism/Meta-Fictional Autobiography
Director: Jean Cocteau
Actors: Jean Cocteau, Edouard Dermithe, Maria Casares, Francois Perrier, …
Category: Fantasy
The Town That Dreaded Sundown (2014)
Rating: ★★★
Modern-Day Copycat of The Phantom Killer
Director: Alfonso Gomez-Rejon
Actors: Addison Timlin, Veronica Cartwright, Travis Tope, Anthony Anderson, …
Category: Horror
The Understudy: Graveyard Shift II (1988)
Rating: ★★
Vampire Actor
Director: Gerard Ciccoritti
Actors: Wendy Gazelle, Mark Soper, Silvio Oliviero, Ilsa von Glatz, …
Category: Horror
Urban Legends: Final Cut (2000)
Rating: ★★
Slasher Film
Director: John Ottman
Actors: Jennifer Morrison, Hart Bochner, Loretta Devine, Eva Mendes, …
Category: Horror
The Visit (2015)
Rating: ★★★½
Found Footage/Weird Grandparents
Director: M. Night Shyamalan
Actors: Ed Oxenbould, Olivia DeJonge, Deanna Dunagan, Peter McRobbie, …
Category: Horror
Wes Craven’s New Nightmare (1994)
Rating: ★★★★
Meta-Fictional A Nightmare on Elm Street Sequel
Director: Wes Craven
Actors: Heather Langenkamp, Robert Englund, Miko Hughes, David Newsome, …
Category: Horror
Winnie the Pooh (2011)
Rating: ★★★
Disney Animation/Talking Animals
Director: Stephen J. Anderson, Don Hall
Actors: Jim Cummings, Bud Luckey, John Cleese, Craig Ferguson, …
Category: Fantasy
The Wizard of Gore (1970)
Rating: ★★★
Splatter Magician
Director: Herschell Gordon Lewis
Actors: Ray Sager, Judy Cler, Wayne Ratay
Category: Horror
Written By (2009)
Rating: ★★★½
Meta-Fiction
Director: Wai Ka Fai
Actors: Lau Ching Wan, Mia Yan, Kelly Lin, Chung Ying Kit, …
Category: Fantasy
Zoom (2015)
Rating: ★★★★
Series of Nested Meta-Fictional Tales
Director: Pedro Morelli
Actors: Alison Pill, Tyler Labine, Michael Eklund, Rick Roberts, …
Category: Fantasy