Subgenre Sampler
Fantasy: 813 Films to Buy & Rent
Last Action Hero (1993)
- Dir. John McTiernan
Feat. Arnold Schwarzenegger
- Conceptually brilliant idea – movie fan is projected into world of his action idol (Arnie) who also joins him in the 'real' world – is sunk with…
Les Visiteurs (Visitors, The) (1993)
- Dir. Jean-Marie Poire
Feat. Jean Reno, Christian Clavier
- Beleaguered, not to mention slobbish, medieval knights Jean Reno and Christian Clavier are plonked down is present–day Paris to duel over…
Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman (TV Series) (1993-1997)
- Feat. Dean Cain, Teri Hatcher
- Popular T V serialisation of the 'Superman' story, with Cain playing the superhero who doubles as meek journalist Clark Kent, and Hatcher playing his…
Music of Chance, The (1993)
- Dir. Philip Haas
Feat. James Spader, Mandy Patinkin, Charles Durning…
- Impressively cast against type, James Spader's slimy card shark entices broken family man Mandy Patinkin to accept a poker challenge by two eccentric…
Necronomicon (1993)
- Dir. Christophe Gans, Shusuke Kaneko, Brian Yuzna
Feat. Jeffrey Combs, Tony Azito, Juan Fernandez
- Supernatural compendium based on the works of H.P. Lovecraft weaves its three separate tales around H.P. himself searching for the elusive 'book of…
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (TV Series) (Deep Space 9) (1993)
- Feat. Avery Brooks, Rene Auberjonois, Alexander Siddig…
- Son of the Next Generation, this initiated a new tele series for trekkies to indulge. Intrepid officers of Starfleet acquire an abandoned alien space…
Super Mario Brothers (1993)
- Dir. Rocky Morton, Annabel Jankel
Feat. Bob Hoskins, John Leguizamo, Samantha Mathis…
- Bob Hoskins and John Leguizamo are incarnated as the vid–game characters – plumbers who slip in saving the world between odd jobs. Will…
Toys (1993)
- Dir. Barry Levinson
Feat. Robin Williams, Michael Gambon, Joan Cusack…
- Even Robin Williams' enormous talent and inspired art direction fail to enliven this comic fantasy. It plays more like a bad dream from which you…
Window to Paris (1993)
- Dir. Yuri Mamin
Feat. Agnes Soral
- A constantly inventive comic fantasy about a group of luckless Russkies who find they can enter gay Paris from a window in their appalling St.…
Army of Darkness (Evil Dead 3) (1992)
- Dir. Sam Raimi
Feat. Bruce Campbell, Embeth Davidtz
- Raimi's third 'Evil Dead' movie is an out–and–out Pythonesque comic–fantasy in which the hero, Ash, confronts simpleton locals and…