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Dark fantasy is a subgenre of literary, artistic, and cinematic fantasy works that incorporates disturbing and frightening themes. The term is ambiguously used to describe stories that combine horror elements with one or other of the standard formulas of fantasy.
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Movies
Sucker punch (2011) • Zack Snyder
A young woman, institutionalized by her abusive stepfather, retreats into a fantasy world where she envisions a plan to escape. Gathering a group of fellow inmates, she embarks on a quest to collect five mystical items, blurring the lines between reality and imagination.
El laberinto del fauno (2006) • Guillermo del toro
In post-civil war Spain, 10-year-old Ofelia moves with her mother to live under the control of her cruel stepfather. Drawn into a mysterious labyrinth, she meets a faun who reveals that she may be a lost princess from an underground kingdom.
The shape of the water (2017) • Guillermo del Toro
1962 Baltimore. A mute cleaner at a high-security government laboratory falls in love with a captured humanoid amphibian creature and decides to help him escape from death.
Animated movies
Coraline (2009) • Henry Selick
Wandering her old house in her boring new town, 11-year-old Coraline discovers a hidden door to a strangely idealized version of her life. In order to stay in the fantasy, she must make a frighteningly real sacrifice.
Monster house (2006) • Gil kenan
Monsters under the bed are scary enough, but what happens when an entire house is out to get you? Three teens aim to find out when they go up against a decrepit neighboring home and unlock its frightening secrets.
Music
Isabella's lullaby in 17edo
Deister Orchestra
Videogames
Little nightmares (2017) • Tarsier Studios
Set in a mysterious world, Little nightmares follows the journey of Six, a hungry little girl who must escape the Maw, an iron vessel inhabited by monstrous, twisted beings.
