Killing On Carnival Row is probably the single best dark fantasy screenplay I've ever read. The Many Deaths Of Barnaby James is another favourite. They're both unproduced. If you dig around the DD message boards for a little while you shouldn't have much trouble locating them.

@jack_culver: agreed on both of those, especially Carnival Row. Links to those two...

The Many Deaths of Barnaby James: http://www.sendspace.com/file/wzykzy

Killing on Carnival Row: http://www.sendspace.com/file/lu36ri

And then I'd certainly add the Lord of the Rings screenplays to this list.

Fellowship of the Ring: http://www.sendspace.com/file/yell40

The Two Towers: http://www.sendspace.com/file/ym4xe7

The Return of the King: http://www.sendspace.com/file/46uetf

Sorta on a tangent --

Scott, where do you draw the line between SciFi and Fantasy?

I bring this up becomes BRAZIL strikes me as a movie that could go SciFi.

I've seen Alex Epstein (Complications Ensue / Crafty Screenwriting) comment on this topic that essentially they are the same genre, except one explains the extraordinary with magic and the other with technology.

I'm not fully convinced one way or the other.

I have my own theories though.

@James: I think Alex Epstein's distinction is a good one. However there are movies, such as Brazil, which do defy categorization: It feels like sci-fi, but fundamentally I think you'd have to say it is a fantasy. Per the final list, I don't have a problem putting that particular script in both genres.

I found the screenplays for Daybreakers and Legion (released recently) to be very excellent reads.

These both fall firmly in the realm of fantasy/sci-fi. Or at least I'd think they would.

The more I think about it, I guess, I'm just antiquated.

SciFi always struck me as people needlessly over explaining the pseudo science of a story. STAR TREK does this a lot. I'm a big fan of SciFi, but never really cared about the indepth knowledge of how a phase pistol worked /shrug.

To me, STAR WARS is a fantasy film. So is BRAZIL (Hell, it's Terry Gilliam, that's pretty much a give away).

I guess, I just want all "technology-based" stories to be fantasy :p