Best Fantasy movies of 1988

Actors : Geena Davis, Michael Keaton, Annie McEnroe, Alec Baldwin,
Directors : Tim Burton,

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.

Actors : Oliver Reed, John Neville, Sarah Polley, Eric Idle,
Directors : Terry Gilliam,

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

Actors : John Glover, Bill Murray, John Forsythe, Karen Allen,
Directors : Richard Donner,

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

Actors : Angus Scrimm, Paula Irvine, Reggie Bannister, James Le Gros,
Directors : Don Coscarelli,

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

Actors : Cathy Tyson, Bill Pullman, Paul Winfield, Zakes Mokae,
Directors : Wes Craven,

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

Actors : Lance Henriksen, John D'Aquino, Jeff East, Kimberly Ross,
Directors : Stan Winston,

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

Actors : Shigesato Itoi, Chika Sakamoto, Noriko Hidaka, Hitoshi Takagi,
Directors : Hayao Miyazaki,

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

Actors : Michael Biehn, Peter Friedman, Demi Moore, Jürgen Prochnow,
Directors : Carl Schultz,

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 ...

Actors : Christine Ebersole, Lauren Stanley, Jonathan Ward, Tina Caspary,
Directors : Stewart Raffill,

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

Actors : Waldemar Kownacki, Jerzy Trela, Andrzej Seweryn, Grazyna Dylag,
Directors : Andrzej Zulawski,

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 ...

Actors : Sonia Braga, Richard Bradford, Julie Carmen, Rubén Blades,
Directors : Robert Redford,

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 ...

Actors : Douglas Seale, Noelle Parker, Jim Varney, Oliver Clark,
Directors : John R. Cherry III,

Ernest helps Santa Claus as he searches for his successor.

Actors : Allison Barron, Cathy Podewell, Hal Havins, Alvin Alexis,
Directors : Kevin Tenney,

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.

Actors : Donal McCann, Steve Guttenberg, Peter O'Toole, Daryl Hannah,
Directors : Neil Jordan,

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.

Actors : Lukas Haas, Len Cariou, Katherine Helmond, Alex Rocco,
Directors : Frank LaLoggia,

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.

Actors : Michael Jackson, Joe Pesci, Sean Lennon, Kellie Parker,

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).

Actors : Kristýna Kohoutová, Camilla Power,
Directors : Jan Svankmajer,

A surrealistic revision of Alice in Wonderland.

Actors : Judge Reinhold, Fred Savage, Corinne Bohrer, Swoosie Kurtz,
Directors : Brian Gilbert,

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.

Actors : Samantha Cahill, Glenne Headly, Charlotte Burke, Jane Bertish,
Directors : Bernard Rose,

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.

Actors : Eileen Brennan, David Seaman, Cory Crow, Tami Erin,
Directors : Ken Annakin,

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 ...