Movies

The founding text. Nancy Archer grows after an encounter with an alien and goes looking for her cheating husband. Crude even by 1958 standards, and none of that has ever mattered - the poster alone did more for this fetish than any film since.

Scenes: The final act, once she is loose in town.

The other founding text, and a genuinely good film. Scott Carey shrinks steadily after passing through a radioactive cloud, and keeps shrinking. The famous ending goes somewhere no shrinking film has gone since.

Scenes: The basement act - the cat, the spider, the matchbox.

The one that got a whole generation. Four kids shrunk to a quarter inch and lost in their own back garden. Almost nobody in this community can talk about how they found it without this film coming up.

Scenes: The lawn crossing, and the scene with the shoe.

Teenagers eat a substance called Goo, grow to about thirty feet, and take over a small town. Cheerfully terrible, and one of the earliest films to put growth itself - rather than an already-big monster - at the centre.

A scientist in the Amazon shrinks his visitors to about a foot tall. Technicolor, and decades ahead of everything else on this list for effects work - the oversized sets still hold up.

Tod Browning's revenge picture, with escaped convicts shrinking people to doll size and using them to settle scores. The oldest film here, and the oversized-prop work is remarkable for its age.

A test pilot is miniaturised and accidentally injected into a supermarket clerk. Comedy rather than fetish, but the scale writing is careful and the inside-a-person material lands squarely on the endosoma branch.

People shrink themselves to five inches as an economic choice. Much more interested in the sociology than the scale, and the size material thins out after the first act - but the shrinking procedure sequence itself is unusually detailed.

Scenes: The procedure, early on.

The biggest-budget shrinking effects ever put on screen, and the sequels add growth in the other direction too. Weightless and jokey about it, but the scale-shift shots are technically the best-looking on this list by a distance.

Drink me, eat me. Alice grows until she fills the house and shrinks until she can swim in her own tears, in the space of one reel. For a lot of people this was first, well before they knew it meant anything.

One of the few names producing live-action size material consistently rather than as a one-off, alongside their 3D work. Shot, composited and released in-house over close to two decades.

Feature-length 3D release from GSFCreator, trailered publicly in 2024.

Character-led 3D shorts released on a steady schedule, with a strong vore thread running through the size work. One of the largest audiences of anyone animating in this space.

A whole informal genre: scenes staged inside Sizebox and recorded, rather than animated from scratch. The reason a free sandbox tool ended up producing more size footage than most studios.

Not remotely intended as size content, and it landed in the community anyway - simply because it is the most sustained depiction of enormous humanoids and helpless small ones that mainstream animation has ever produced.

Irwin Allen series about a crew stranded on a planet where everything is twelve times normal size. Two seasons of oversized props and giant hands reaching into frame - a formative one for an older slice of the community.

Ghibli's Borrowers adaptation. No fetish content whatsoever and it belongs here anyway: it is the most carefully observed depiction of living at four inches tall that anyone has animated - the physics, the weight of things, the sound design.

The source of the whole thing, and worth listing even though it is a book. Lilliput and Brobdingnag are the two halves of this fetish written down three hundred years before it had a name - and Swift spends real time on the mechanics of scale.