My grandparents used to have HBO when I was a kid in the early 80s. I would sit there for hours on end. Beast master was on constantly. Cult classic for sure!
This movie was responsible for one of the coolest memories I have with my dad. He saw me watching it and then using a stick or something as a pretend sword, so he took me down to the basement and carved me a sword out of a piece of wood. Thanks, Beastmaster.
If it's ok to share Cool memories of our Dads, I was 7 years old and was "the wolf" in the little red riding hood school play. They needed an axe for the woodsman and they were going to make one out of toilet roll tubes and cardboard. My dad said he would make one at work. He didn't, he got the apprentice to, and made one with a full wooden handle and a wooden head that was painted gloss black with a silver bladed edge, and the handle was varnished. It looked like the real article. If you'd have seen the teachers freaking out as I walked into the school passed their particular class rooms with it over my shoulder. It was hilarious. They didn't see my mum behind me walking into the school. They just saw a seven year old casually carrying an axe into school
I met Marc Singer at Dragoncon a few years ago. Genuinely nice dude! He basically said he knew part 2 & 3 were terrible going in but felt a responsibility to the character and to all the people who would get work because of them.
Loved this movie And I was growing up at the right time to really appreciate Tanya Roberts. The story and setting were cool and the designs were really creative. So much fun.
I love this movie. My favorite part is how much it's structured like a video game. Every time I watch it, the video game beats and mechanics jump out to me. It has mini bosses, plus a huge last boss at the end. Why someone hasn't made this a killer game baffles me.
A couple of us participated in a game jam, and the theme COMPANION give us the idea of making a Beastmaster type game, we named it Beastmaster - The Alliance. The game was about choosing some animal / beast / monster companion at every leveling up, and defeat enemies in a beat them up style. It wasn't much, made in 2 days, I made the art. :) cdna.artstation.com/p/assets/images/images/060/597/498/large/laszlo-eszik-title.jpg?1678907834 cdnb.artstation.com/p/assets/images/images/060/595/727/large/laszlo-eszik-beastmaster.jpg?1678905372
I have a friend of mine who says the same about quite a few movies from that time period. Movies like Rambo 2 and such. When he describe it, its always as a compliment. I've come to realize that these games starting with the NES took note from these movies and tried to mimic them in gameplay. Its a structure that continues into modern video games today. As for a Beastmaster video game, I definitely wouldn't say no to it. Sword and Sorcery is one of my favorite genres and games like Conan Exiles are some of my favorite. I've seen many games try a beastmaster concept, but never actually focused the entire game around it. So a Beastmaster game where the animals you use give different abilities and mechanics would be quite fun to play.
Never knew it was overshadowed by Conan...Funny thing is, BeastMaster & Conan, those two were my favorite Fantasy sword fighting movies of all times as a kid in the 80s...They'll never be forgotten.
After Conan no movie could hold a candle to its Standard but Beastmaster came close as it was One of the Coolest Classic 80's Flick made with a lot of heart and had such a great cast.
I wrote an episode of the BEASTMASTER TV series -it was filmed in Australia. Unfortunately, I didn’t get to go. But I still get residuals for that episode, so somebody still watching it!
I didn't watch this until I was an adult. Saw it on streaming and figured it would be fun cheesy bit of fantasy action. It certainly was that. What I wasn't expecting was the level of production value! There is some seriously good cinematography and practical effects work going on.
I saw this as a kid at a Town Hall Movie showing. The audience was having a blast and cheering whenever something epic happened. Was one of the best times I've ever had at the movies.
Very good movie in concept and execution. Marc Singer had a great body and excelled as the lead, with fine backup from Tanya Roberts and the boy companion, and Rip Torn made a striking villain. As a Phantasm fan, I enjoy Coscarelli's special way of making films. I'm glad more people now appreciate this movie.
I don't care what anybody says about The BEASTMASTER, I really enjoyed watching this movie as a kid. It's been a while since I've watched it, but thanks for the motivation to get back on it. 👍
Great movie and one I used to watch on TV, cable and VHS constantly. I give you kudos for being more informative with the history than others who have done videos of this movie.
Grew up with both Conan and Beastmaster but if I had to choose one it would definitely be Beastmaster. It just embraced the fun side of these kinds of movies much better.
Conan is one of those movies that I keep trying to like, like Close Encounters of the Third Kind, but just can't get into it. Beastmaster was great when I was 12 and when I was 52.
As a kid I absolutely loved this movie. Saw it several times in the theater. When it first came out on HBO, I recorded on cassette tape to listen to when I went to bed. Even created Dungeons and Dragons characters based off characters from the movie.
Great over view of what happened to the Beastmaster and it's Franchise, keep up making these videos. Speaking of BeasterMaster, I wonder if they will have Remaster Beastmaster 2 and 3 and put them on bluray? Those 2 movies I feel have been lost in time and are still stuck on old VHS and Laserdisc, we need a remaster, I think.
This was in my top 3 movies of this type growing up. It sat at a comfortable #2, just under Conan The Barbarian and just above Krull. The Beastmaster had everything. It had a really good antagonist with Rip Torn. It had a really good bad group, with the horde. It has one of the most terrifying bad creations with the monsters created with the slugs in the ear. And those are just trumped by the more terrifying creatures with wings that will turn people into soup and bones. The protagonist was awesome. What kid didn't day dream about being able to talk to animals? The love interest was pretty damn hot and the side kicks, both human and animal, were great. Unfortunately it didn't age very well. The audio is really bad and the acting is pretty cheesy. But as a kid, this movie was incredible. As far as the sequels? I treat this movie almost like I do the Alien series. There's Alien 1 and 2. And it stops there. Except the Beastmaster, I stop at the first movie. Nothing after is worth watching.
I don't consider Conan a classic but have lots of Arnold movies including Terminator (1984), Running Man (1987), Kindergarten Cop (1990), Total Recall (1990), Terminator 2 (1992) and True Lies (1994).
@@bigneiltoo I guarantee that if you were to ask anyone who grew up watching Arnold movies, if you ask them what they consider his classic movies are, Conan The Barbarian would be on that list 9 out of 10 times. But opinions vary I suppose.
Krull was probably my 3rd with Conan being first and Beast Master being second, do you remember the video game Krull , I don't remember if it was just in the arcade or I played it on Sega Genesis.
Loved Beastmaster. Scared the hell out of me as a youngster. BTW, consort as a noun is the romantic partner of a ruler. I imagine you were thinking of the verb form, 'to consort'. Easy mistake to make.
@@bigneiltoo And CG the animals. Although if done right it probably wouldn't be a bad thing for certain scenes that couldn't be done in the original because it would've been too dangerous.
This was a frequent watch at my house, on The Beastmaster Station. On it's surface, it's a bit goofy, but there is actually a lot of things going on beneath the surface if you really pay attention.
A classic, it had sword, sorcery and a pretty female lead - the mainstays of the genera at the time (and going back to the stories that started the genera). I'm not sure how it was supposed to originally be, but it is still a great movie in my book.
I collect movies on Blu Ray and consider it a keeper and borderline classic, though as someone who saw it 20 times as a 12 year old boy, I might be a little partial.
I'd love to see a remake of Beastmaster. (I never want to see remakes, but I just think with today's technology it could end up being really cool). I loved the original, like everyone else I must have watched it 600 times.
@@Axolotl_Mischief Name one modern day remake that is better than the original for us please. Dune is the only one that comes to mind, but making a movie based off a book can hardly be called a remake.
8:05 It’s true. If you make it a point to seek out and greet whatever animal you are trying to establish a connection with when you are in their presence establishes a bond.
I rewatched a couple of months ago to see if it was still as fun as I remembered. It's a typical 80's fantasy action movie, but damn does it still hold up. I think the lack of crazy special effects helped a lot. Everything was practical and generally low-key. I have always wanted his little boomerang blade. I can never remember what it's called. I always thought that was the coolest thing ever. Almost on-par with a lightsaber for me.
Didn’t realize it until now, but I kind of lived out my Beastmaster fantasy. At one point, I was given a pair of ferrets from a co-worker whose new wife didn’t want them. At another, I volunteered at a big cat sanctuary and got to interact with over 60 of them. And one of my ultimate dreams, I did falconry. My highlight during that time was that I got to hunt with a golden eagle. I’ve always had a fascination and love for animals, and even did a few short animal documentaries on my channel. Lately, I decided to sort of spin that off to another channel that’s in the works. Some passions will always live on I guess… Oh and like the film, it seems like I’m always faced with budget cuts. 😋 It will be interesting to see if the franchise can be given new life since the creator has the rights back. Working with animals is always challenging, but I hope that with the advancements in technology a balance can be struck with utilizing the tech and still being able to have live animals utilized.
That was great, man! I've always loved this movie, but I always felt like there was something weird and janky about it. But now a bunch of that makes sense. Gotta go watch it again!
Yeah man, the 80's were the best (or the worst lol) for fantasy movies. I was heavily into DnD and there was Beast Master, Ator the Fighting Eagle, The Sword and the Sorcerer, Conan, Highlander etc. 🤘😝🤘
I was a big fan of Andre Norton and loved her book The Beastmaster, so when I saw this film in the cinema, I was amazed she didn't get a credit because it totally ripped off her characters. No internet back then so I'd always wondered what the story behind that was.
She had them remove her name because the tiger died from the dye they used. I loved the books especially the later ones she wrote before she passed away. I like that she included a female beast master for Hosteen to interact with.
@@ericsteel173 Have you read the other three in the series? Yeah I wish they would make a movie or series true to the books. Or even movies based on some of her other novels like the Gryphon trilogy.
@@ericsteel173 Lord of Thunder was the first. Then she collaborated with another author to make a trilogy. So there are actually 5 in total not 4 like I originally thought.
14:00 I was 10 yoa in in 1983 and had HBO. I can't even count how many times I watched this film and loved it! It is so good and while I understand Dan's reluctance to the Conan comparison, BM was a kid friendlier introduction to sword and sorcery for many in my generation. Those monsters with the wings and eat people by wrapping their wings around them was such a cool and frightening concept to me as a kid.
Seriously, i used to watch this in the uk late night in the 80s. Talking about it decades later and no one believed it ever existed. I feel validated ❤😂❤
I have only seen the original Beastmaster, it is a classic, until now I had no idea there were two more movies and a series... having seen this I have no wish to have my memories of this cool movie even more tainted.
This was my first real look at what was in my head as a kid in the 80's. I loved it and am glad to know that the directors cut is as close as it was supposed to be. Now I HAVE to find it, I already have the other release on DVD.
I remember this movie back in the day.I was bummed when one of the ferrets sacrificed it self. Also those creature people that liquefied people to death if people ran into them. The sights and sounds still make my skin crawl. What a gruesome way to go.
Ferrets are very cute , but they smell horrible. No matter how clean you keep your house and your ferrets , you can smell them as soon as you walk in .
Without a shadow of a doubt my favourite movie as a kid…….hard to believe it’s over 40 years old and still holds its own. Had the creators not lost the original we would probably have a remastered version now
I really like this movie and it's sequel as kid and honestly it was the first high fantasy story I watched with my mother then she put on Wizards and it was over, I was sold on high fantasy.
As someone else mentioned this movie was on heavy rotation on HBO in the '80s. I spent a lot of time at a friend's house who had HBO and it seemed like it was on 24/7. I also remember that as a kid it creeped me out enormously. I guess mission accomplished?
My credit on Beastmaster was Asst. Production Designer. I designed all the sets that were on the Van Nuys warehouse "sound stage". (Tunnels, pods forest, dungeon, etc.) William Strom designed all the Semi-Valley location village sets and pyramid human sacrifice set. The wide shot of the village on the hill across from Marc Singer's (Dar) was a forced perspective miniature about 20 ft ahead of Marc's point of view. It was so real looking that when you were standing in front of it, it STILL looked like it was on the hill across the valley! It was John Alcott's last picture before he passed away. He did not use a light meter to check the F-stop for the camera, he used an old Polaroid black & white camera. If It look right, that was what they set for the camera. He was amazing to watch. As you may know, if you dim a stage light's voltage, it changes the color temperature to a warmer fire light or candle light look. I watch him use a flash light while walking just out of frame with Marc so that his face could be seen on film moving in the dark. The reason I am taking the time to write is because it was a wonderful time to be working on films like this with people like Mr. Alcott. (He won an Oscar for Barry Lyndon)That time of miniatures instead of CGI today, practical locations instead of stage blue screen and so on. I wish there were more You Tube videos for young people to learn how films were made in the golden era of "Hollywood". You can still use your talent and ingenuity and inexpensive 4K cameras to make films that look like you spent millions to do so. Sadly, a lot of that talent on Beastmaster and others like it have passed on, with only a few of us sharing the stories of behind the scenes. Marc was a great guy to be around. I am glad he is still with us.
Regardless of special effects or editing, this movie is great! Set the stage for many other movies of that time and later decades. Mark and Tanya are great in it. One of the best movies of the 80s.
The Beastmaster stunk on ice. It was NOTHING like the book. Because that black dye poisoned the tiger Andre Norton said she would never allow any of her other work to be made into movies.
We loved Beastmaster back in the day. It ran on HBO constantly.
My grandparents used to have HBO when I was a kid in the early 80s. I would sit there for hours on end. Beast master was on constantly. Cult classic for sure!
HBO was once nicknamed "Hey, Beastmaster On" 😆
It was on constantly in the early 2000s.
And watched it everytime !
Yep I loved them all 1-3
Marc Singer was a big part of 80s kids childhood with Beastmaster and the TV show V.
Oh man I love V
This movie was responsible for one of the coolest memories I have with my dad. He saw me watching it and then using a stick or something as a pretend sword, so he took me down to the basement and carved me a sword out of a piece of wood. Thanks, Beastmaster.
That's beautiful! What a wonderful memory.
My father did the exact same thing!!! He loved watching movies like this and Conan..etc…aren’t fathers awesome!
Cool. That's awesome
If it's ok to share Cool memories of our Dads, I was 7 years old and was "the wolf" in the little red riding hood school play. They needed an axe for the woodsman and they were going to make one out of toilet roll tubes and cardboard. My dad said he would make one at work. He didn't, he got the apprentice to, and made one with a full wooden handle and a wooden head that was painted gloss black with a silver bladed edge, and the handle was varnished. It looked like the real article.
If you'd have seen the teachers freaking out as I walked into the school passed their particular class rooms with it over my shoulder. It was hilarious. They didn't see my mum behind me walking into the school.
They just saw a seven year old casually carrying an axe into school
Yes, fathers are awesome! :) Thanks for sharing those beautiful memories.
Greetings from Germany
That Beastmaster show was so good to watch as a kid. I loved it very much.
I met Marc Singer at Dragoncon a few years ago. Genuinely nice dude! He basically said he knew part 2 & 3 were terrible going in but felt a responsibility to the character and to all the people who would get work because of them.
:)
Beastmaster was He Man, FTW!
Nerrrrrrd!
didn't even know there was a 2 and 3
This was not a bad film. I thought Dar's powers were kind of cool and those witches were creepier that Miramax.
One of the best things I like about this movie is the music. They hit the nail on the head with that.
My brother and I would watch this all the time as kids. One of my favorite childhood movies. 80’s RULE!
Damn. One of my childhood favorites. It was so sad when one of the ferrets died.
I remember cryiung on that part lol but when the babies popped out I felt a lil better!
Same here.i had almost forgot about this movie until it showed up in my recommendations but the ferret death was the first thing I remembered about it
Very true 😭😭🤩
Same. I had a ferret at the time. I went home and hugged him.
Core childhood memories unlocked!
The mothmen where the best part. The scene where they embrace the enemy grunts and they turned into skeletons really stuck with me to this day.
Second only to the Sleestaks from Land of the Lost.
I actually just showed that Mothman scene to my 7 and 5 year old girls, and just like me 30+ years prior, they were horrified AND fascinated.
Yeah they really freaked me out back then. Haven't seen anything as creepy since really.
Me and my brother always called them "Milkshakers"
That’s the scene that stuck with me the most over the years!
The first two ferrets that I ever had were named Kodo and Podo because of Beastmaster! I loved this movie so much as a kid!
I watched it recently after about 20yrs……still gripped me the same way it did 40yrs ago,classic movie…….Tanya Roberta was my future wife 😂
The most underrated 80s fantasy film, Rip Thorn is a lot of fun in the film, but you can’t go wrong with cute animal sidekicks
@Ralph Reilly by culture in general, not by those who love this movie
Rip Torn as always was awesome
See!! Ar wants your children!
Such a classic movie. Beast master is what movies are about. I used to pretend my dog could understand me. Freaking amazing movie!
Loved this movie And I was growing up at the right time to really appreciate Tanya Roberts. The story and setting were cool and the designs were really creative. So much fun.
I love this movie. My favorite part is how much it's structured like a video game. Every time I watch it, the video game beats and mechanics jump out to me. It has mini bosses, plus a huge last boss at the end. Why someone hasn't made this a killer game baffles me.
A couple of us participated in a game jam, and the theme COMPANION give us the idea of making a Beastmaster type game, we named it Beastmaster - The Alliance. The game was about choosing some animal / beast / monster companion at every leveling up, and defeat enemies in a beat them up style. It wasn't much, made in 2 days, I made the art. :)
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I have a friend of mine who says the same about quite a few movies from that time period. Movies like Rambo 2 and such. When he describe it, its always as a compliment. I've come to realize that these games starting with the NES took note from these movies and tried to mimic them in gameplay. Its a structure that continues into modern video games today.
As for a Beastmaster video game, I definitely wouldn't say no to it. Sword and Sorcery is one of my favorite genres and games like Conan Exiles are some of my favorite. I've seen many games try a beastmaster concept, but never actually focused the entire game around it. So a Beastmaster game where the animals you use give different abilities and mechanics would be quite fun to play.
Never knew it was overshadowed by Conan...Funny thing is, BeastMaster & Conan, those two were my favorite Fantasy sword fighting movies of all times as a kid in the 80s...They'll never be forgotten.
After Conan no movie could hold a candle to its Standard but Beastmaster came close as it was One of the Coolest Classic 80's Flick made with a lot of heart and had such a great cast.
Well, you've obviously never seen "Deathstalker". :)
Did you even watch the video! They say right in video Beastmaster was out first!
The three best sword and sorcery movies are Conan The Barbarian,The Beastmaster, and Deathstalker
@@josephperkins4857Fire and Ice gets no love? #Frazetta
@@HeckmanBrad77 it didn’t hit like Conan but it’s still up there
I wrote an episode of the BEASTMASTER TV series -it was filmed in Australia. Unfortunately, I didn’t get to go. But I still get residuals for that episode, so somebody still watching it!
Ty for the episode and time you spent doing it !
An under-rated classic
Ah yes, this movie was a staple of mine growing up. It was in our small family VHS movie library and so I’ve seen it tons of times as a kid.
Did the monster that opened his arms and turned people to bones scare you like it did me
This movie was constantly on HBO, Showtime or The Movie Channel back in the early 80s. Watched it every chance I could.
@@CadiKane nope, never did 🤷♂️
@@ProBreakers you are probably part dog
@@ProBreakers did the sacrifice scare you
I was obsessed with this movie. I drew that symbol on my hand and named my hamsters Kodo and Podo.
Same. lol
dam i've been naming shit wrong for 30 years then... I named many things Todo and Podo
I stayed home sick one day and saw it on HBO. Then it would play again later in the evening and I'd have my family watch it.
I didn't watch this until I was an adult. Saw it on streaming and figured it would be fun cheesy bit of fantasy action. It certainly was that. What I wasn't expecting was the level of production value! There is some seriously good cinematography and practical effects work going on.
Tanya Roberts😍. Died way too early. May she rest in peace
She had incredibly beautiful blue eyes.
Yeah, she was just fine as hell all the way around!
I saw this as a kid at a Town Hall Movie showing. The audience was having a blast and cheering whenever something epic happened. Was one of the best times I've ever had at the movies.
Very good movie in concept and execution. Marc Singer had a great body and excelled as the lead, with fine backup from Tanya Roberts and the boy companion, and Rip Torn made a striking villain. As a Phantasm fan, I enjoy Coscarelli's special way of making films. I'm glad more people now appreciate this movie.
Loved the first Beastmaster movie.
The score by Lee Holdridge is one of my favourite aspects of this film; suitably epic and fantastical and really elevates the film.
Yes!
Tanya Roberts was SO BEAUTIFUL!
I don't care what anybody says about The BEASTMASTER, I really enjoyed watching this movie as a kid. It's been a while since I've watched it, but thanks for the motivation to get back on it. 👍
I remember watching this and I thought it was a great movie. I fell in love with Tanya Roberts during this movie.
It seems we were a throuple
@@seanfaherty quintuplets..... btw RIP Tanya, still had the spark in those 70s show
One of my favorite movies growing up. Seeing this makes me want to watch it again.
I just bought the directors cut on DVD from ebay to watch it again!
If you don't like this movie then you obviously didn't have HBO in the eighties.
or TBS in the 90's which is where i first saw it.
Lol no HBO saw the Beast Master at local drive in theater when it came out
😂💯
They played this one all the time! There are a lot of good ones poltergeist, enemy mine, in the nightmare fuel nightmare on elm Street.
HBO, it was on basic cable back in the day.
Delighted to see a video on this movie. An all time favourite of mine from when I was a child. Still have a massive soft spot for it.
The Winged Devourers scarred me for life
Great movie and one I used to watch on TV, cable and VHS constantly. I give you kudos for being more informative with the history than others who have done videos of this movie.
Grew up with both Conan and Beastmaster but if I had to choose one it would definitely be Beastmaster. It just embraced the fun side of these kinds of movies much better.
Conan is one of those movies that I keep trying to like, like Close Encounters of the Third Kind, but just can't get into it. Beastmaster was great when I was 12 and when I was 52.
RIP Tonya🙏
I loved this movie as a kid. The moth man creatures used to freak me some though lol.
As a kid I absolutely loved this movie. Saw it several times in the theater. When it first came out on HBO, I recorded on cassette tape to listen to when I went to bed. Even created Dungeons and Dragons characters based off characters from the movie.
Great over view of what happened to the Beastmaster and it's Franchise, keep up making these videos. Speaking of BeasterMaster, I wonder if they will have Remaster Beastmaster 2 and 3 and put them on bluray? Those 2 movies I feel have been lost in time and are still stuck on old VHS and Laserdisc, we need a remaster, I think.
Now where to find this so I go down memory lane?! Loved this growing up and many memories of watching this with my mother, brother and grandfather. :)
This was in my top 3 movies of this type growing up. It sat at a comfortable #2, just under Conan The Barbarian and just above Krull. The Beastmaster had everything. It had a really good antagonist with Rip Torn. It had a really good bad group, with the horde. It has one of the most terrifying bad creations with the monsters created with the slugs in the ear. And those are just trumped by the more terrifying creatures with wings that will turn people into soup and bones. The protagonist was awesome. What kid didn't day dream about being able to talk to animals? The love interest was pretty damn hot and the side kicks, both human and animal, were great. Unfortunately it didn't age very well. The audio is really bad and the acting is pretty cheesy. But as a kid, this movie was incredible.
As far as the sequels? I treat this movie almost like I do the Alien series. There's Alien 1 and 2. And it stops there. Except the Beastmaster, I stop at the first movie. Nothing after is worth watching.
I don't consider Conan a classic but have lots of Arnold movies including Terminator (1984), Running Man (1987), Kindergarten Cop (1990), Total Recall (1990), Terminator 2 (1992) and True Lies (1994).
Gawd! Exactly this!
@@bigneiltoo I guarantee that if you were to ask anyone who grew up watching Arnold movies, if you ask them what they consider his classic movies are, Conan The Barbarian would be on that list 9 out of 10 times. But opinions vary I suppose.
@@jeremybr2020 I agree it would be on the list. It just sucks.
Krull was probably my 3rd with Conan being first and Beast Master being second, do you remember the video game Krull , I don't remember if it was just in the arcade or I played it on Sega Genesis.
Beastmaster has long been one of my favorite movies. I didn't realize there were sequels. I'll need to check them out.
The good old days of TBS and HBO, or as we used to call them, The Beastmaster Station and Hey Beastmaster’s On!
Classic. Truly blessed to have grown up at this time with so much food for the imagination. ❤
Today I learned that Don Coscarelli made Phantasm, my favorite horror movie from childhood, and The Beastmaster.
0:32 omfg, phantasm scared the hell out of me as a kid. I don't think any other movie has ever terrified me that much.
Exorcist was mine!!
I was one of those kids constantly watching Beastmaster on HBO in the early 80's! 🤣😂😅
Loved Beastmaster. Scared the hell out of me as a youngster. BTW, consort as a noun is the romantic partner of a ruler. I imagine you were thinking of the verb form, 'to consort'. Easy mistake to make.
I would be perfectly fine with a Beastmaster remake. Loved the world they created in the first movie.
Oh yeah, me too.
No, it's already perfect.
Sure. They'll have a black girl replace Marc Singer.
@@bigneiltoo And CG the animals. Although if done right it probably wouldn't be a bad thing for certain scenes that couldn't be done in the original because it would've been too dangerous.
@@bigneiltoo Hahaha
Best movie ever!!! I used to watch this as a kid all the time. This movie FREAKING ROCKS! Todo and Podo??
This was a frequent watch at my house, on The Beastmaster Station. On it's surface, it's a bit goofy, but there is actually a lot of things going on beneath the surface if you really pay attention.
I loved this film when it came out. I watched it on cable at least 50 times and loved it every time.
A classic, it had sword, sorcery and a pretty female lead - the mainstays of the genera at the time (and going back to the stories that started the genera).
I'm not sure how it was supposed to originally be, but it is still a great movie in my book.
I collect movies on Blu Ray and consider it a keeper and borderline classic, though as someone who saw it 20 times as a 12 year old boy, I might be a little partial.
LOVED this show as a kid. Those bereserker thing freaked me OUT!
I'd love to see a remake of Beastmaster. (I never want to see remakes, but I just think with today's technology it could end up being really cool). I loved the original, like everyone else I must have watched it 600 times.
It would be destroyed by an over-abundance of CGI.
Remakes being inherently bad is the sentiment of people that don't know much about film. There are tons of remakes better than the original.
@@Axolotl_Mischief Name one modern day remake that is better than the original for us please.
Dune is the only one that comes to mind, but making a movie based off a book can hardly be called a remake.
If there was a remake. I would rather have it more true to the series that Andre Norton did. Not as a fantasy one. The series was a sci fi one.
@@danbardos3498 Aliens was much better than the original Alien movie..😊
8:05 It’s true. If you make it a point to seek out and greet whatever animal you are trying to establish a connection with when you are in their presence establishes a bond.
I rewatched a couple of months ago to see if it was still as fun as I remembered. It's a typical 80's fantasy action movie, but damn does it still hold up. I think the lack of crazy special effects helped a lot. Everything was practical and generally low-key. I have always wanted his little boomerang blade. I can never remember what it's called. I always thought that was the coolest thing ever. Almost on-par with a lightsaber for me.
It was amazing it got a PG rating, Showed how far they could go back then!
Good Popcorn flick. Some sword play, some comedy, animals running around, some Sorcery and Tania Roberts in her swim wear.
Didn’t realize it until now, but I kind of lived out my Beastmaster fantasy. At one point, I was given a pair of ferrets from a co-worker whose new wife didn’t want them. At another, I volunteered at a big cat sanctuary and got to interact with over 60 of them. And one of my ultimate dreams, I did falconry. My highlight during that time was that I got to hunt with a golden eagle. I’ve always had a fascination and love for animals, and even did a few short animal documentaries on my channel. Lately, I decided to sort of spin that off to another channel that’s in the works. Some passions will always live on I guess…
Oh and like the film, it seems like I’m always faced with budget cuts. 😋 It will be interesting to see if the franchise can be given new life since the creator has the rights back. Working with animals is always challenging, but I hope that with the advancements in technology a balance can be struck with utilizing the tech and still being able to have live animals utilized.
Did you end up with a hottie like Tanya Roberts too? That would be the cherry on top.
That was great, man! I've always loved this movie, but I always felt like there was something weird and janky about it. But now a bunch of that makes sense. Gotta go watch it again!
Yeah man, the 80's were the best (or the worst lol) for fantasy movies. I was heavily into DnD and there was Beast Master, Ator the Fighting Eagle, The Sword and the Sorcerer, Conan, Highlander etc. 🤘😝🤘
Krull was right up there
Don't forget the Masters Of The Universe.
This was the movie for an 80's kid , watched it 100 times, scared me to death but i watched it , RIP Koto or was it Poto
I was a big fan of Andre Norton and loved her book The Beastmaster, so when I saw this film in the cinema, I was amazed she didn't get a credit because it totally ripped off her characters. No internet back then so I'd always wondered what the story behind that was.
The book was great. I always wanted a version that was true to the book.
She had them remove her name because the tiger died from the dye they used. I loved the books especially the later ones she wrote before she passed away. I like that she included a female beast master for Hosteen to interact with.
@@ericsteel173 Have you read the other three in the series? Yeah I wish they would make a movie or series true to the books. Or even movies based on some of her other novels like the Gryphon trilogy.
@@Poizenne I read a sequel, I don’t remember the name. I didn’t know there were more than 2.
@@ericsteel173 Lord of Thunder was the first. Then she collaborated with another author to make a trilogy. So there are actually 5 in total not 4 like I originally thought.
14:00 I was 10 yoa in in 1983 and had HBO. I can't even count how many times I watched this film and loved it! It is so good and while I understand Dan's reluctance to the Conan comparison, BM was a kid friendlier introduction to sword and sorcery for many in my generation. Those monsters with the wings and eat people by wrapping their wings around them was such a cool and frightening concept to me as a kid.
I met Marc Singer at GenCon a number of years ago. He was a very cool dude.
Seriously, i used to watch this in the uk late night in the 80s. Talking about it decades later and no one believed it ever existed. I feel validated ❤😂❤
I have only seen the original Beastmaster, it is a classic, until now I had no idea there were two more movies and a series... having seen this I have no wish to have my memories of this cool movie even more tainted.
This was my first real look at what was in my head as a kid in the 80's.
I loved it and am glad to know that the directors cut is as close as it was supposed to be.
Now I HAVE to find it, I already have the other release on DVD.
Love this flick, wish I could get a good bluray copy.
I literally still have the original beta max copy. No machine.....but still the tape.
The tree guys were some of the coolest things ever. As a kid they freaked me out!! But the blue eyed masked berserkers were pretty awesome too!!
I remember watching this movie. I loved it as a kid. 😊
One of the coolest sword and sorcerer movies from the 80's ... great movie
Watched this SOOOO many times on HBO as a kid 😊
I had so much fun watching this film as a kid. I dug the TV series too.
I remember this movie back in the day.I was bummed when one of the ferrets sacrificed it self. Also those creature people that liquefied people to death if people ran into them. The sights and sounds still make my skin crawl. What a gruesome way to go.
Since then I've seen 2000 people die in films, but no death was as sad as the ferret. Especially because the other ferret was sad.
All of this 100 percent
One of the greatest movies of my childhood. Watched it at least a dozen times.
And Tanya Roberts was such a babe
This was hands down one of my all-time favorite movies absolute classic!!
I was a ferret owner from 1986 to 2018. Ferrets are very smart and can be trained to do lots of tricks.
Ferrets are very cute , but they smell horrible. No matter how clean you keep your house and your ferrets , you can smell them as soon as you walk in .
@@jamesstewart3771 This is the price we must pay for cute kleptomaniac kittens that never grow up and love to bust a move.
You said, "a couple of things [was] able to be done". Well done, you used the passive voice. Keep upward the good workin!
This movie had parts that scared the soul out of me
Without a shadow of a doubt my favourite movie as a kid…….hard to believe it’s over 40 years old and still holds its own.
Had the creators not lost the original we would probably have a remastered version now
I really like this movie and it's sequel as kid and honestly it was the first high fantasy story I watched with my mother then she put on Wizards and it was over, I was sold on high fantasy.
Such a classic and staple of 80's cinema!!! 🤩🍿🎥
Thanks for sharing this video 😁👽🦝
As someone else mentioned this movie was on heavy rotation on HBO in the '80s. I spent a lot of time at a friend's house who had HBO and it seemed like it was on 24/7. I also remember that as a kid it creeped me out enormously. I guess mission accomplished?
It would have played on HBO for one month, about 3 times per day tops. What's creepy about it?
This was one of my favorite movies as a kid. Haven't seen this in at least 30 years.
It was a great movie back in the day. For a fun adventure it did what it was supposed to.
My credit on Beastmaster was Asst. Production Designer. I designed all the sets that were on the Van Nuys warehouse "sound stage". (Tunnels, pods forest, dungeon, etc.) William Strom designed all the Semi-Valley location village sets and pyramid human sacrifice set. The wide shot of the village on the hill across from Marc Singer's (Dar) was a forced perspective miniature about 20 ft ahead of Marc's point of view. It was so real looking that when you were standing in front of it, it STILL looked like it was on the hill across the valley! It was John Alcott's last picture before he passed away. He did not use a light meter to check the F-stop for the camera, he used an old Polaroid black & white camera. If It look right, that was what they set for the camera. He was amazing to watch. As you may know, if you dim a stage light's voltage, it changes the color temperature to a warmer fire light or candle light look. I watch him use a flash light while walking just out of frame with Marc so that his face could be seen on film moving in the dark. The reason I am taking the time to write is because it was a wonderful time to be working on films like this with people like Mr. Alcott. (He won an Oscar for Barry Lyndon)That time of miniatures instead of CGI today, practical locations instead of stage blue screen and so on. I wish there were more You Tube videos for young people to learn how films were made in the golden era of "Hollywood". You can still use your talent and ingenuity and inexpensive 4K cameras to make films that look like you spent millions to do so. Sadly, a lot of that talent on Beastmaster and others like it have passed on, with only a few of us sharing the stories of behind the scenes. Marc was a great guy to be around. I am glad he is still with us.
swords, sandals, sorcery, and bewbeez.
The Mothmen were just AWESOME 🕳️💩🦫🥃
How gorgeous was Tanya Roberts
Pretty damn gorgeous
I’ll never get bored of The Beastmaster, for the typical 80s fantasy trope, it was a bit ahead of it’s time. The casts was perfect imo.
The tigers look like tigers. Stripes and all. Dirty tigers are still tigers😂
I burst out laughing when I saw the “panther”. It’s so obviously a tiger lol
Love this breakdown, thanks for sharing
2:55 while trying to follow her/Keri, he runs into the winged creatures first, Then Maax, then Seth & Tal.
That synchronized staff spin at 13:40 was the most subtle and badass move. Like, "We're not looking for a fight, but we do have these."
I absolutely adore this movie. I have to have seen it 100 times. Great part of my childhood.
Regardless of special effects or editing, this movie is great! Set the stage for many other movies of that time and later decades. Mark and Tanya are great in it. One of the best movies of the 80s.
The Beastmaster stunk on ice. It was NOTHING like the book. Because that black dye poisoned the tiger Andre Norton said she would never allow any of her other work to be made into movies.
Loved this movie as a kid and still love it today.