I loved this movie, it is hard to find good, dark, fairy/folk tale movies like this. Anybody have some recommendations they would like to share?
Here are a few of mine:
El laberinto del fauno (2006)
The VVitch: A New-England Folktale (2015)
The Company of Wolves (1984)
Suspiria (1977)
Lemora: A Child's Tale of the Supernatural (1973)
Valerie a týden divu (1970)
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All good choices. I like Faun's Labyrinth and Valerie a bit less than the other four, which I absolutely love.
Some other favorites of mine are Snow White: A Tale of Terror, Mario Bava's Black Sunday, and Juraj Herz's Beauty and the Beast.
My IMDb lists: http://www.imdb.com/user/ur5570856/lists?ref_=nv_usr_lst_3
Black Sunday is excellent.
I am looking forward to watching the other two. Thank you for the recs!
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Snow White a Tale of Terror
Really like it!
"I'd like to keep Spike as my pet"- Illyria, Angel S. 5
Little Red Riding Hood (short film with Christina Ricci)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119552/reference
Hansel and Gretel short film (have not seen yet)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1482859/reference
Little Red Riding Hood 2015 (have not seen yet but want to even though it got *beep* scores)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3591944/reference
Red Riding Hood 2003 (have on computer but have not seen yet)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0388365/reference
The red shoes (korean movie)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0468683/reference
The Curse of Sleeping Beauty 2016
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4118606/reference
The Brothers Grimm
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0355295/reference
Freeway (based of red riding hood)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116361/reference
"I'd like to keep Spike as my pet"- Illyria, Angel S. 5
Let me add one of my favorites and a possible candidate for "best movie of this genre" which is "perfume: the story of a murderer" !
shareI love Company fo Wolves! And I find Tale of Tales absolutely stunning. I loved to read folk European fairytales as a child and they can be really imaginative and twisted! Tale of Tales captures this perfectly. Some people complained of wooden, basic dialogues and lack of background of the characters, but this is exactly how it is in this kind of fairytales, you do not get to know much, and the director decided to amplify the story visually, not by adding extra information with dialogues or explanations, as it would not be a fairytale anymore. I seriously think this film deserved much more success.
Other dark folk tales films I know, I would advise The blood on Satan' s claw, and maybe also The archane enchanter (by Pupi Avati).
Legend (Ridley Scott with Tim Curry as 'Darkness')
Hansel And Gretel: Witch Hunters
The Directors cut of Legend for sure. Not the 80's music video version though.
shareThank you for all the great suggestions. I wish to add to the lists:
Jean Cocteau's version of Beauty and the Beast (1946) this was made in B/W ,but in my opinion is the best version due to you have to watch everything on the screen. The scones on the walls move ,plus hands on the walls open doors etc. It is a true fairy tale.
I only fully realised whilst watching this how powerful dark fairytales are. One of my other real favourite films of all time is Pans Labyrinth and I remember seeing a quote from Guilermo del Toro which from memory he said something like "If you can make people feel something on the subconscious level it has a bigger impact than if they feel it on the conscious level". I may have got the quote wrong but I think it was along those lines. I'd appreciate it if someone knows the actual quote.
But essentially this made me realise I need to see more dark fairytale type films.