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List of sword-and-sorcery films

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Sword and Sorcery is a literary genre that emerged out of the early 20th century by blending elements from the Adventure and Horror genres with major influences from early archeology and theosophy, as well as folklore and mythology,[1] often written in a gothic literature fashion with heavy themes of existentialism, social critiques, questions about agency, and expressions of free will. It is a sub-genre of weird fiction, and the parent of fantasy. It is also known for its utilization of eastern story telling techniques and religious story telling concepts such as Divine intervention, often employing the Deus Ex Machina trope. [2]

Violent and controversial,[3] the genre has experienced small bubbles of popularity. This genre is marked by hard-magic systems, morally grey characters, romance subplots, and an elevation or appreciation of primitive instinct or emotion as superior to civilization and/or law.[4] These characters typically face interpersonal trials as they venture out to fight a mythical or supernatural evil in the pursuit of self-discovery or self-enrichment.[5][6]

This genre was created by the author Robert E. Howard in 1926 with his King Kull story The Shadow Kingdom.[7][8] Howard's characters Conan the Barbarian and Solomon Kane would go on to become the basis for this genre. It received it's official name much later, in 1961, when Micheal Moorcock and Fritz Leiber had a public discussion through fanzines, deciding that there must be "a name for the sort of fantasy-adventure story written by Robert E. Howard." [9][10]

This list will attempt to chronicle all films related to or inspired by the Sword and Sorcery genre. Due to the nature of film as being quite different from literature, there is substantial variation even in direct adaptions of S&S stories to the screen. There is considerable crossover with the screen presence of this genre and other subgenres of heroic fantasy.

In film, this genre is commonly referred to by the Hybrid name Supernatural Action-Adventure.

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