25 Great Movies Inspired By Folk Tales
25 Great Movies Inspired By Folk Tales By Meagan Drillinger, Stacker News On 8/3/21 at 8:00 PM EDT The folk tale tradition—from fairy tales to ghost stories—has origins stretching back to the start of human speech. The art of oral storytelling predates the written word, and has been used for time immemorial for recording information, teaching morality, and untangling some of life's greatest mysteries. Stacker surveyed film history and compiled a list of movies across decades, countries, and genres that drew their inspiration from the folk tale tradition, with accompanying IMDb and Meta...