8 Great Fantasy Movies Under 100 Minutes. Your Bedtime Survives. Your Opinions Won't.

Good scores, short runtimes, home before the candy crash. It's Saturday, but treat it like a school night. Your eyelids will thank you.

Number one scared off audiences and charmed critics. I'm siding with the critics.

1. 8
   Buddy (2026)6.6

   A $3M movie that outhustled actual blockbusters.

   Reported $3M budget, nearly $27M domestic, 88% on Rotten Tomatoes. Patton Oswalt and Cristin Milioti in fantasy horror. Weird, cheap, and sometimes too pleased with its own weirdness.
2. 7
   Liar Liar (1997)6.9

   Jim Carrey's face is the only special effect needed.

   $302.7M worldwide and an A− CinemaScore. The plot is one sentence stretched thin. Carrey's rubber face does every bit of the heavy lifting, and it's legit enough.
3. 6
   Chronovisor (2026)8.8

   The best movie on this list that nobody saw.

   Metacritic 90, Rotten Tomatoes 92%, and just 207 IMDb votes. It made $126,456 total. That's a polite way of saying you missed it.
4. 5
   Midnight in Paris (2011)8.7

   A pretty postcard that gets more credit than it earns.

   The movie.guru score is 8.7, the Guru's Take is 7.3. It turned a reported $17M into $151.5M worldwide. Lovely to look at, thin as a croissant.
5. 4
   My Old Ass (2024)7.9

   The most underrated coming-of-age fantasy in years.

   90% on Rotten Tomatoes and only $5.4M domestic. Maisy Stella meets her older self and it lands harder than that tiny box office suggests.
6. 3
   Beetlejuice (1988)7.9

   Still the correct Halloween night pick. No debate.

   $74.7M domestic off a reported $15M budget. Catherine O'Hara and Tim Burton's handmade nonsense. Some effects look cheap on purpose. Some just look cheap.
7. 2
   Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)9.5

   Funnier than every fantasy epic ever made, combined.

   movie.guru score 9.5, beats 99% of movies with audiences, 92% on Rotten Tomatoes. Coconuts instead of horses. The back half runs low on gas, and it barely matters.
8. 1
   The Witch (2015)6.0

   The best movie here. Audiences got this one wrong.

   Critics: 91% on Rotten Tomatoes. Audiences: a C− CinemaScore, beating just 34% of movies. Guru's Take is 8.0 against a 6.0 movie.guru score. Slow on purpose. Fight me.

$47.63 says someone in the comments calls number one boring and someone else calls it the scariest thing they've ever seen.

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