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After eight years of silence, the Mythica franchise emerges from dormancy with “Stormbound,” a sixth installment that feels both like a homecoming and a fresh start. This crowdfunded fantasy series, which began in 2014 with modest ambitions and D&d-inspired adventures, returns to a world forever changed by the climactic events of “The Godslayer.” Set nearly two decades after the defeat of the great evil Szorlok, we find ourselves in a fractured realm where victory’s aftermath has proven almost as devastating as the original threat.

The film makes a bold narrative pivot, abandoning the quest-driven structure of its predecessors for something more intimate and psychologically complex. Instead of sprawling adventures across magical landscapes, “Stormbound” confines itself to a single location—a remote inn where disparate travelers seek shelter from both literal and metaphorical storms.

This chamber piece approach, clearly inspired by Tarantino’s “The Hateful Eight,” transforms the fantasy genre...

The sixth instalment in this low-budget series has a meagre plot and shonky visual effects but the director and cast clearly care about the franchise’s audience

This low-budget but reasonably competent swords and sorcery yarn is the sixth instalment in a series of Mythica films that goes back to 2014. It seems they were first bankrolled partly by crowdfunding, and then presumably kept going by the production’s low overheads and straight-to-retail distribution to an audience that clearly grooves to quasi-Tolkienian, Dungeons and Dragons-style quests featuring a motley band (there is usually an elf or dwarf). If you like your necromancy tales spiked with huge chunks of nattering as the characters endeavour to bulk out the running time with lots of banter and exposition, this may be just the ticket. Don’t worry too much about not having seen the other five films because this is reasonably watchable, especially as...