Best Fantasy movies of 1988

Beetlejuice(1988)

Combined Rating:
74
Combined Critics Rating: 63

When a recently-deceased ghost couple find their now-vacant home invaded by an obnoxious family, they hire a sleazy ghost who gets rid of humans to help them.



The Adventures of Baron Munchausen(1988)

Combined Rating:
69
Combined Critics Rating: 60

An account of Baron Munchausen's supposed travels and fantastical experiences with his band of misfits.



Scrooged(1988)

Combined Rating:
59
Combined Critics Rating: 44

A selfish, cynical T.V. executive is haunted by three spirits bearing lessons on Christmas Eve.



Phantasm II(1988)

Combined Rating:
42
Combined Critics Rating: 33

Mike, now released from a psychiatric hospital, continues his journey to stop the evil Tall Man from his grim work.



The Serpent and the Rainbow(1988)

Combined Rating:
38
Combined Critics Rating: 20

An anthropologist goes to Haiti after hearing rumors about a drug used by black magic practitioners to turn people into zombies.



Pumpkinhead(1988)

Combined Rating:
33
Combined Critics Rating: 15

After a tragic accident, a man conjures up a towering, vengeful demon called Pumpkinhead to destroy a group of unsuspecting teenagers.



Tonari no Totoro(1988)

Combined Rating:
32
Combined Critics Rating: 0

When two girls move to the country to be near their ailing mother, they have adventures with the wondrous forest spirits who live nearby.



Mac and Me(1988)

Combined Rating:
30
Combined Critics Rating: 18

An alien trying to escape from NASA is befriended by a wheelchair-bound boy.



Na srebrnym globie(1988)

Combined Rating:
30
Combined Critics Rating: 36

A small group of cosmic explorers, including a woman, leaves Earth to find freedom and start a new civilization. They do not realize that within themselves they carry the end of their own ...



The Seventh Sign(1988)

Combined Rating:
30
Combined Critics Rating: 14

In Haiti, the sea and the life-form die; in the Middle East, a town is frozen. These are signs of the Apocalypse and the Vatican is investigating, but Father Lucci advises that these omens ...



The Milagro Beanfield War(1988)

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Combined Rating:
27
Combined Critics Rating: 19

In Milagro, a small town in the American Southwest, Ladd Devine plans to build a major new resort development. While activist Ruby Archuleta and lawyer/newspaper editor Charlie Bloom ...



Night of the Demons(1988)

Combined Rating:
25
Combined Critics Rating: 8

Ten teenagers party at an abandoned funeral parlor on Halloween night. When an evil force awakens, demonic spirits keep them from leaving and turn their gathering into a living Hell.



Ernest Saves Christmas(1988)

Combined Rating:
25
Combined Critics Rating: 10

Ernest helps Santa Claus as he searches for his successor.



High Spirits(1988)

Combined Rating:
24
Combined Critics Rating: 11

When a hotelier attempts to fill the chronic vacancies at his castle by launching an advertising campaign that falsely portrays the property as haunted, two actual ghosts show up and end up falling for two guests.



Moonwalker(1988)

Combined Rating:
22
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Anthology movie by, and starring, Michael Jackson in his prime, combining a number of music videos from his bestselling "Bad" album with a fantasy tale of Michael's confrontation with a ruthless drug dealer known as Mr. Big (Joe Pesci).



Lady in White(1988)

Combined Rating:
22
Combined Critics Rating: 11

An author tells the story of how, as a young boy growing up in a small town during the 1960's, he was haunted after witnessing the murder of a little girl.



Neco z Alenky(1988)

Combined Rating:
19
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A surrealistic revision of Alice in Wonderland.



Vice Versa(1988)

Combined Rating:
18
Combined Critics Rating: 0

During an argument, a divorced executive and his 11 year old son casually touch a magical Tibetan skull, releasing a mysterious power that transfers the father's mind to the body of the son and vice versa. Their problems have just begun.



Paperhouse(1988)

Combined Rating:
16
Combined Critics Rating: 5

A young girl lost in the loneliness and boredom of reality finds solace in an ill boy, whom she can visit in a surreal dream world that she drew in her school composition book.



The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking(1988)

Combined Rating:
15
Combined Critics Rating: 5

After her father's ship is carried off by a sudden storm, the spunky Pippi Longstocking is stranded with her horse, Alfonso, and monkey, Mr. Nilsson, and takes up residence in the old ...




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