Category:Film:HollowEarthLittlePeople

Films that feature "Hollow Earth" subterranean civilizations on a grand scale, or perhaps simply caves full of troglodytic "Little People" (Faeries, Ghouls, Serpent People, Deros, and the like), waiting deep in the Earth for a chance to reach up and snatch hapless surface-dwellers out of their every-day lives on the unguarded borders against the Unknown. Their location will generally be literally somewhere deep under the Earth, though this "underground" realm can sometimes actually take the form of strange "faerie lands" in alternate dimensions (Dreamlands or the Other Side, for example).

Though technically a sub-sub-genre of the "Lost World" genre which includes Lost Continent and Mysterious Island stories, the Hollow Earth tends to take on a more paranoid, surreal, and sinister flavor. See Category:Film:LostContinent for the more general Lost World variety of this subgenre of speculative fiction, which tends to take on either a more sword-and-sandal fantasy adventure tone, often mixed with a bit of the Victorian imperial/colonial civilization-and-ingenuity-meets-the-savages theme.