“Where everything seems possible and nothing is what it seems.”
A frustrated teenager’s wish goes wrong when her baby stepbrother vanishes into a strange realm. To get him back, she has to cross a maze full of shifting traps and odd encounters, where nothing behaves as expected. The journey turns into a race through a fantasy world that keeps testing her nerve and imagination.
Jim Henson directed this 1986 film, shaping it as a blend of fantasy and adventure with darker mystery and horror touches. Jennifer Connelly plays Sarah, whose impulsive wish sets the story in motion and whose determination drives the rescue. David Bowie appears as the Goblin King, the ruler linked to the maze and the danger waiting inside it. The cast also includes the figures Sarah meets along the way, each adding to the film’s strange, playful atmosphere.
Made in the United States and the United Kingdom, the film moves between wonder and menace, with a tone that suits its shifting, dreamlike spaces. Its world feels like a place where childhood fantasy collides with fear and responsibility, making the maze itself feel like a test of growing up. The result is whimsical, eerie and unsettled at once.
Jim Henson directed this 1986 film, shaping it as a blend of fantasy and adventure with darker mystery and horror touches. Jennifer Connelly plays Sarah, whose impulsive wish sets the story in motion and whose determination drives the rescue. David Bowie appears as the Goblin King, the ruler linked to the maze and the danger waiting inside it. The cast also includes the figures Sarah meets along the way, each adding to the film’s strange, playful atmosphere.
Made in the United States and the United Kingdom, the film moves between wonder and menace, with a tone that suits its shifting, dreamlike spaces. Its world feels like a place where childhood fantasy collides with fear and responsibility, making the maze itself feel like a test of growing up. The result is whimsical, eerie and unsettled at once.
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7.3 / 10