Fantasy films classify as films that include fantastic themes, usually involving magic, supernatural events, mythology, folklore, or exotic fantasy worlds - which falls under the speculative fiction category.
Speculative fiction is a broad category that includes elements, settings and characters created out of imagination and speculation rather than based on reality and everyday life.
The most common fantasy subgenres depicted in movies are
High Fantasy and
Sword and Sorcery. Both categories typically employ quasi-medieval settings, wizards, magical creatures and other elements commonly associated with fantasy stories. Fantasy films often have an element of magic, myth, wonder, escapism, and the extraordinary. It typically strays from reality, featuring fictional types of beings like mythical creatures and supernatural entities, technologies that do not exist in real life like time machines and interstellar spaceships.
High Fantasy films tend to feature a more richly developed fantasy world, and may also be more character-oriented or thematically complex. Often, they feature a hero of humble origins and a clear distinction between good and evil battling. Whilst Sword and Sorcery movies tend to be more plot-driven than high fantasy and focus heavily on action sequences, often pitting a physically powerful via the use of the unsophisticated warrior against a supernaturally endowed enemy. Although Sword and Sorcery films sometimes describe an epic battle between good and evil - similar to those found in many High Fantasy movies - they may alternately present the hero as having more immediate motivations, such as the need to protect a vulnerable girl or village, or even being driven by the desire for vengeance.
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