Fantasy film

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Fantasy films are films that belong to the fantasy genre with fantastic themes, usually magic, supernatural events, mythology, folklore, or exotic fantasy worlds. The genre is considered a form of speculative fiction alongside science fiction films and horror films, although the genres do overlap.^[1] Fantasy films often have an element of magic, myth, wonder, escapism, and the extraordinary.^[2]