The Reality of Magic

After showing one of my short stories to a few people I received an interesting piece of feedback that my style has elements of 'Magic Realism' to it. Although I am challenging a genre I have not worked on before (horror), I intend to drench the dialogue with satire and my own unique style.  Therefore I will not shy away from magic realism if that's the route my script goes down.  

Magic Realism is a genre where magic elements are a natural part in an otherwise ordinary, realistic environment.  What I take from this would be my stories tend to have a basic well known setting such as a bar, but they contain a magical element to it, in this case a magic ring that gives you wishes.  

Gabriel Garcia Marquez's name repeatedly came up as I was researching Magic Realism.  He appears to be the father of the genre, with several successful books to his name. E.g. 100 Years of Solitude and No one writes to the Colonel. 

"His works have achieved significant critical acclaim and widespread commercial success, most notably for popularizing a literary style labeled as magic realism, which uses magical elements and events in otherwise ordinary and realistic situations."  Source: Wikipedia.com

A book/film favourite of mine that carries this genre would be 'The Green Mile'.  This story is set around a realistic death row prison of characters and what they do in their last few weeks.  The magical element is then added with the character 'John Coffey' who can add and remove people's illnesses.  

Woody Allen's movies also tend to have a magical realism feel to them.  His latest film, Midnight in Paris involves an artist in Paris who starts off the story is a seemingly normal way doing normal things, then while carrying out these normal things the story shifts and he is transported back in time .  
By using realism within your fantasy I feel it allows people's mind to accept what is going on.  It draws the curtains over that voice that usually tells you, "this could never happen."