Theme: Gods and Deities

For discussion on this site, titles listed under the theme God refer to the One God of Judaeo-Christendom and Islam. By contrast, Gods and Deities refers to every other deity, whether part of a world religion or fictional, whether said religions be monotheistic or the deities belong to a pantheon.

There are numerous films featuring appearances from the gods of Greek Mythology, Norse Mythology and Ancient Egyptian Mythology, and to a lesser extent from Hindu Mythology, Eastern Beliefs and other world mythologies. These range from heroic fantasy adventures where characters battle or are aided by deities, to works where we see gods living in the present-day world to ones (usually horror films) where demonic figures from these mythologies are incarnated. The Marvel Cinematic Universe even gives us a Norse god as superhero.

There is a whole body of other fictional deities that appear in works of horror or else are encountered in Epic Fantasy. A notable made-up variant was the Great Old Ones of H.P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos in Lovecraftian Films, ancient elder entities of unimaginable power that wait to be awakened.