We’re about due for some new vibes in the fantasy genre space.

With every streaming service and production company (and book publisher, for that matter) trying to find their next Lord of the Rings or Game of Thrones, it feels especially special when something slips past the soup of tropes and clichés and gritty medieval realism and offers a glimpse into the worlds that a genre as all-encompassing as “fantasy” can include.

100 Nights of Hero, the new feature by director Julia Jackman in theaters Nov. 5, is such a movie, a fantasy film unlike anything else, that feels like it crash-landed here from another world.

The thing is, to say that 100 Nights of Hero is “unlike anything else” is kind of inaccurate: the film, like its source material, is more of a collage of fairy tales, storytel

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