You could probably get years of material out of Pyun, a man whose motto seems to be, "If you can't do it well, do it a lot!" He's one of my favorite schlockmeisters.
@@mikeyoung9810 yes, because the only way someone would find that brilliant writing in the final season bad; is because “bandwagon.” 😂😂 The scripts for the last couple seasons of game of thrones wouldn’t have passed a year one narrative course.
@@josephmayfield945translation: you’re a bandwagon jumper who tries to justify your jumping despite everyone except self-appointed “diehard fans” being fine with it
You know, once you add a second blade beside the first (never mind the third blade), you don't so much have a sword as a very large and ungainly fork. Still, good fun, with both Matt Houston and Frank from Murphy Brown in it :)
I have to admit as an 80's kid who loved anything with swords in it, this was a guilty pleasure as a kid........seriously torture heavy though. Can't believe the promised sequel actually did happen LOL
Shark Night 3-D has a pretty convoluted bad guy plan: A jilted man follows his ex-girlfriend and her acquaintances to a beach side cottage. He then arranges to have the local waters filled with four different species of man-eating sharks. He also sets up an intricate system of CCTV cameras everywhere, including several underwater locations, so he can film everyone being eaten, his ultimate plan being to sell all the footage to Discovery for use in Shark week.
This was one of my favourite movies as a child. It was an AA certificate here in the UK back in 1983 where you had to be 14 and over to watch it. I was only 11, but blagged my way in - such was my obsession with cult cinema - even at such a young age! The slick production values still hold up, and the whole movie had a primal, raw quality to it which suited a sword and sorcery movie. I love it to this day. The sword is daft though!
The sword is daft?? America has been using the same steam catapult technology to launch fighters from carriers since the 70s! Obviously it was an ancient art perfected in the time of this movie! 🤭
Beastmaster for the win. The Junn Hoard(?) and the creatures with the membranes that sucked out people's juices and those glowing eyed berserk beasts were all amazing.
I thought the title sounded familiar, but when I saw that tri-sword, it re-awakened some childhood nostalgia! Please review the sequel that I did not know existed!
This is the "pick me up" I needed today. Much love to the Dark Corners team. They have definitely helped myself, as well as others, to find some different entertainment, as well as have a few chuckles along the way. This channel is for the casual observer of genre Cinema, as well as the seasoned veteran.....all the way to the most snobbish cinephile. So....it's for everyone. But NOT for posers, hahahaha! (Kidding! Trying to sound like an old, jaded Punk Rocker or Comic Book collector! Hahahaha!) Hope everyone at Dark Corners is well. Cheers, everyone!
There's a Godzilla movie where aliens hire a manga artist to do preliminary design work for an amusement park, which will serve as their base of operations, where they plan to build replicas of all the Earth's monsters, and then use their own monsters to destroy the Earth's monsters and anything else that can resist them.
@@christopherwall2121 dammit… and to think… I was expecting a “it will be super easy… barely an inconvenience! … until the hippies show up!” Screen Rant Movie Pitches are _tight!_
This brings back memories. Conan the Barbarian started the trend of heroes getting crucified and surviving. Yes, it made the sword and sorcery genre popular.
@@anthonylogiudice9215 Yes and no. The Sword and the Sorcerer was released in the United States on April 30, 1982. Conan's US release was May 14, 1982. Conan premered in Spain March 16, 1982. It was released in Italy, Sweden, France, and The Netherlands before April 30. I looked it up in IMDB. It is a curiosity how two movies, released about the same time, had that same element.
I remember seeing part of this one saturday in my youth - the only thing I remembered was the Jello-demon and the shooty sword. Glad to finally know what it was called.
I've actually seen "Tales of An Ancient Empire." it's even worse that it looks. most of the movie is done in front of a green screen. now, when you're green screening actors in front of a background one would assume you'd do it of an interesting background of something like a stormy sky, or a craggy mountain, or a lush forest. or maybe even something as exciting as a brick wall. nope. a lot is just vague papyrus-esque sepia tone haze. and the climatic final battle is presented in a narrated slideshow of still images of the characters standing there.
Close to 1000 views and hasn't even been uploaded for an entire hour? I'd say you're doing okay so far. But still, you guys always deserve way more views no matter how many you get.
@@themysteriousdomainmoviepalace if I'm not mistaken I believe the sequel at least has Kevin Sorbo in it and he's usually at least a pretty entertaining actor to watch.
Sweet! One of my all-time favorite bad 80s cheesefests! Thanks so much for reviewing this one. Quillemina the hedgehog and I are about to settle in and enjoy. 👍🏻😍🦔
Did I mention when I was......fifteen?......and the film was being promoted, the gruesome bloody red “wall of faces” seen in the beginning - built by the Chiodo Brothers, a company I would work on a number of features with - and their first official prop job in Hollywood, as they describe it. That thing was on display at the local Los Angeles Comic Book and Science Fiction Convention ! It’s held every month and at the time admission was FIFTY CENTS. 💜
@ Rodd Matsui. That's great that you got to work with the Chiodo brothers! I had an old Famous Monsters magazine back in the late '70s, and it had an article showing a young kid making monster masks and his last name was Chiodo. I've always wondered if that was one of the Chiodo brothers.
I am a fan of Albert Pyun but I remember when I first watched The Sword and the Sorcerer, I thought there was meant to be a twist where Talon wasn't the missing prince but an ass who had stolen the name. Can't wait for more reviews from the Pyuniverse
Thanks for reviewing this one, but you're more than welcome to refrain from reviewing the belated sequel. Less Sorbo is always preferable to more Sorbo.
I immediately recognized the bald baddie. He played Mogua, the Huron chief badguy in The Last of the Mohicans. Steve Forrest as Hawkeye. Also, this hero guy looks like Errol Flynn lol. And I remember this movie...
I remember this one. I watched it with a friend who simply loved it for reasons I never really understood. I hated that sword. It would have been impossible to fight with, and I can't recall their ever showing how he replaced those blades once they were fired. Did I forget that bid? Did the blades simply grow back?
I can't believe that they finally made the promised sequel! Now if the makers of "The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension" can give us the sequel that was promised in the end credits to that movie, I'll be happy.
It's a hoot, saw it at the flicks when it came out. Plot, who needs it? And it's got the mighty Richard Lynch! I wish you'd mention actor's names more often.
This movie was an 80's Video shop classic! The VHS cover art was amazing! Fun Movie Fact - the movie grossed $39,000,000 at the Box Office on a budget of $4 million, making it the most successful independent movie of 1982!
This is a guilty pleasure of mine. I found it refreshing the overthrown heir had no interest in reclaiming the kingdom. He's a freebooting mercenary who's happy leading a company who clearly can't get by without him. It breaks the cliche.
While Talon is a bit of a heroic jerk, I still enjoy Lee Horsley's performance since he also played Matt Houston (one of my favorite TV shows) the same year. The sequel though is beyond terrible. There are some films that are "so bad, they're good" (Sword & Sorcerer) and then there's "so bad, it's an absolute chore to get through" (Tales Of Ancient Empire). Please don't waste your time reviewing the sequel, Robin. There are so many other films you need to review like "The Last Shark" (1981) and "Shock Waves" (1977). Yes, I'm still hoping for those reviews one day.😉
Saw this one at the movies. After the STAR WARS wave subsided Science Fiction movies were on the out. When CONAN THE BARBARIAN came onto the scene, Fantasy movies were in. TS&S was one of the early Fantasy films and I didn't think it was too bad, but trust me when I say a lot of the ones that followed sucked ass on a professional level. It was like when the Ray Harryhausen's brilliant Fantasy films came out in the 60's and they were quickly followed by the awful dubbed Italian sword & sandal movies put out by American International Pictures to make a quick buck on the drive-in circuit.
Nobody recognizes Talon's sword. The royal sword. Or notes that he has the same name as the lost heir. Yeah, it would have been better if this had been him coming back to take his rightful place as king.
Now this one scared the shit out of me as a kid. I remember seeing the cover in the video shop in 82. As a 5 year old I was having a sulk and really wanted a scooby soo video but stupidly chose sword. As you can imagine, in those days there wasn’t an 18 cert slapped on the cover, my mum put on the tape and I caught the bit with the wall of eyes and the heart being pulled out. Gave me nightmares for a few days. Found the film a good 15 years later and have kept it ever since. A good film considering the small budget. Gory, not quite up there with Fulcis Conquest, but an enjoyable romp, with a decent cast. Recommend this one.
Same here, except I was a little older and rented it myself (because no-one cared about age checks back then). My friends and I would rent any movie we wanted and watched it at my house because my parents were both out. My tolerance for scary stuff was much lower than my friends, and I remembered dreading every movie. Lots of zombie films and those graphic horror films. This was one of the few non-horror films we saw and I remember really liking it.
Convoluted plots? How about digging up multiple dead bodies...a hand from one, a foot from another, a head from a third, ad nauseum, and stitching them all together to make a new body? The movie is called Frankenstein. Why not just dig up one good dead body and reanimate it?
Actually saw this movie in the movie theater. I was totally surprised to see George Maharis in the film. I thought he retired from acting. Didn't know Lee Horsley played the lead. Must have been one of his early roles. Of course, recognized him later in his career. Forgot how bad the dialogue was, but it was a fun movie.
I don't think I'd be nearly as harsh. It's a rolicking good time, with a very decent soundtrack, and much better than many other S&S movies of the period. It knows enough not to take itself too seriously, which is a problem films like Gor, The Barbarians, Deathstalker, and Barbarian Queen suffer from. Other better-than-they-have-a-right-to-be S&S films of the era include Hawk the Slayer, Beastmaster, and the made-for-TV movie Archer: Fugitive from the Empire.
I absolutely love this movie! Sure it's corny but what sword and sorcery movie isn't? Besides, I was a huge fan of Lee Horsley at the time. If anything, the movie was just fun! I paid to see it four different times in theaters and drive-ins after all. Still own my VHS copy as well as DVD. I was really disappointed the sequel didn't happen in time for Horsley to return and didn't even watch it when I heard it was a Sorbo flick. Only good thing he ever did was Hercules.
Considering that Xuxia spends most of the time off-screen, and Talon spends most of his time running around the city unarmed, except for maybe a dagger, there's is precious little Sword and Sorcerer in this movie.
It sounds like how this movie should have ended was the gods of Olympus looking down and opining, "These people are pathetic. Something should be done" Then the volcano explodes and the continent sinks below the waves. The screen says,, "And that is what happened to Atlantis."
My brothers and I used to love this movie when we were kids and our parents would rent it on VHS for us from time to time. As much as anything I loved that Norman Tuttle was in it :)
Oh my God, it wasn't until the last little bit that I realized this is one I saw on tv when I was young. I was always confused by it because I thought the hero was the brother of the woman he was trying to sleep with but didn't know it. I remember her having a thing for kneeing people in the groin and the demon wanted her too and almost bit her like a vampire.
I think I saw that guy on Charlie's Angels once. And thats Kathleen Beller. She joined the cast of DYNASTY and got used to being called a wench. Convoluted plots? A space station the size of a moon with an exploitable exhaust port comes to mind.
I was just thinking about this movie a few days ago. Couldn't remember much about it. But seeing the review made me think about the movie Krull. Is it considered a bad movie?
I remember really liking this as a kid, and finding it somewhat scary. In fact, it's one of the few movies where I rented it again years later because I liked it so much. I never noticed that the plot made absolutely no sense. I'm looking at Alana and thinking, "She looks familiar" and it took me a quick imdb to find that she was in Dynasty. Then I remembered that I actually watched Dynasty. And Dallas. As a kid. Back in the day where there was only one tv and the kids had to watch what the adults watched.
Probably Pyun's biggest budget movie. That said he was very talented at making a shoestring budget look like a decent budget film. Almost all his films have a sort of loony fun. So on that sword. It's not like Attack on Titan where he has a holster full of replacement blades. I'm assuming he comes back later to grab them and reload it?
Whenever i watch a video i kinda feel obligated to leave a comment. Like when you visit a national park and sign the guest book. It was nice. Very nice.
Sorry but I absolutely love sword and the sorcerer. Yes its everything you say , but in a world of PC movies that claim to have a brain, it's a retro breath of fresh air..
Nice tee...what's your fav Kurosawa film (admittedly a tough call)? Personally I'd have to go w/ Ran or Seven Samurai or Yojimbo (Tetsuya Nakadai and Toshiro Mifune easily being among the GOAT actors)
Tough call. Yojimbo is the one I've watched the most, Seven Samurai is a masterpiece of course, but Ikiru is perhaps my favourite, even though I would struggle to watch it again.
1:55 wait, I thought Cromwell killed Charles? Oh well, English history is not my strong suit. I THINK I saw this, or parts of it, on early cable as a little kid. The image of a demon with glowing finger nails, ripping someone's skin off in stuck in there and I don't know that context but it fits bits of what I've seen on this film.
Palpatine's plan in Star Wars: The Phantom Menace. Trying to take over by engineering a crisis and manipulating a ruler into calling for a vote of no confidence in the current leadership so he can seize power. It doesn't sound all that convoluted if you boil it down to the basics...until you realize that he can use the Force, and that a standard Force ability lets you control people's minds. He's made his plan so much more complicated than it needed to be, given that he could have just hypnotized the old leadership into stepping down and then rigged the vote the same way. In fact, there are a ton of fantasy and sci-fi villain plans like this, where villains enact complicated plans using powers or magic technology that should render the entire plan pointless.
My parents had this on video disk - yes they were the people that bought one. Early teens so swords, sorcery and tits made it a must watch. Plot never made sense though.
You could probably get years of material out of Pyun, a man whose motto seems to be, "If you can't do it well, do it a lot!"
He's one of my favorite schlockmeisters.
Still a more satisfying ending than Game of Thrones
Got to love a negative bandwagon to jump on.
More than a few Game of Thrones influences here. He might dress it up with fancy words, but this seems like what GRRM was going for.
Mah queen!!!
@@mikeyoung9810 yes, because the only way someone would find that brilliant writing in the final season bad; is because “bandwagon.” 😂😂
The scripts for the last couple seasons of game of thrones wouldn’t have passed a year one narrative course.
@@josephmayfield945translation: you’re a bandwagon jumper who tries to justify your jumping despite everyone except self-appointed “diehard fans” being fine with it
This film manages to combine Matt Houston, Manimal, Airwolf and Streethawk actors in an 80's TV overload...
Spot on!
Don't forget Night Court....Bull remember
...and the damsel is best known for her stint on Dallas.
You know, once you add a second blade beside the first (never mind the third blade), you don't so much have a sword as a very large and ungainly fork. Still, good fun, with both Matt Houston and Frank from Murphy Brown in it :)
Isn't a large three-tined sword better known as a trident?
Goofy but fun. And I liked the sorcerer being powerful but limited. So often magic users are all powerful.
Don't forget Richard Moll (Bull from Night Court), as the Sorcerer Xusia.
I have to admit as an 80's kid who loved anything with swords in it, this was a guilty pleasure as a kid........seriously torture heavy though. Can't believe the promised sequel actually did happen LOL
This was the film that made me realize that "entertaining" and "truly dreadful" are not mutually exclusive concepts.... Love the review!
Shark Night 3-D has a pretty convoluted bad guy plan: A jilted man follows his ex-girlfriend and her acquaintances to a beach side cottage. He then arranges to have the local waters filled with four different species of man-eating sharks. He also sets up an intricate system of CCTV cameras everywhere, including several underwater locations, so he can film everyone being eaten, his ultimate plan being to sell all the footage to Discovery for use in Shark week.
I can almost swear to it being something me and my mates came up with in fifth grade.
This was one of my favourite movies as a child. It was an AA certificate here in the UK back in 1983 where you had to be 14 and over to watch it. I was only 11, but blagged my way in - such was my obsession with cult cinema - even at such a young age! The slick production values still hold up, and the whole movie had a primal, raw quality to it which suited a sword and sorcery movie. I love it to this day. The sword is daft though!
Dead right boss! I was about the same age at the same time and I still love this movie. My kids aren't quite as impressed though! What do they know?
The sword is daft?? America has been using the same steam catapult technology to launch fighters from carriers since the 70s! Obviously it was an ancient art perfected in the time of this movie! 🤭
Funny enough, when I saw it as a child, the limited showing of the sword was a disappointment, now? It's appearances are a distraction.
I have the vhs. I’ve probably seen this movie 20 times, along with Conan, Krull, Beastmaster, etc. it’s awesome!
Beastmaster for the win. The Junn Hoard(?) and the creatures with the membranes that sucked out people's juices and those glowing eyed berserk beasts were all amazing.
@@diverguy3556 I haven't even heard of it. But I am intrigued.
I thought the title sounded familiar, but when I saw that tri-sword, it re-awakened some childhood nostalgia!
Please review the sequel that I did not know existed!
This is the "pick me up" I needed today. Much love to the Dark Corners team. They have definitely helped myself, as well as others, to find some different entertainment, as well as have a few chuckles along the way. This channel is for the casual observer of genre Cinema, as well as the seasoned veteran.....all the way to the most snobbish cinephile. So....it's for everyone.
But NOT for posers, hahahaha!
(Kidding! Trying to sound like an old, jaded Punk Rocker or Comic Book collector! Hahahaha!)
Hope everyone at Dark Corners is well. Cheers, everyone!
Richard Lynch was a great character actor. He got his characteristic scarred face when he set himself on fire after having taken drugs.
theres a youtube bout him doing it and why, quite interesting.
I met the actor who played Cromwell, Richard Lynch, back in the late 1980's. He was very nice.
As cool as the sword looked when I was 12, it's wildly impractical watching this as an adult.
Nobody thinks about having to pry the sword fragments out of things and reloading it again.
There's a Godzilla movie where aliens hire a manga artist to do preliminary design work for an amusement park, which will serve as their base of operations, where they plan to build replicas of all the Earth's monsters, and then use their own monsters to destroy the Earth's monsters and anything else that can resist them.
Will it be difficult to pull off?
@@TheRealNormanBates well, they got beat by hippies
@@christopherwall2121 dammit…
and to think… I was expecting a “it will be super easy… barely an inconvenience!
… until the hippies show up!”
Screen Rant Movie Pitches are _tight!_
Is it a Godzilla movie or a Gamera movie?
@@silkychan6099 I said "Godzilla" in my OP
The Sorcerer is played by "Bull" from the sitcom "Night Court".
This brings back memories. Conan the Barbarian started the trend of heroes getting crucified and surviving. Yes, it made the sword and sorcery genre popular.
Today this movie would have
its own UA-cam channel.
This film came out about a month before Conan in 1982.
@@anthonylogiudice9215 Yes and no. The Sword and the Sorcerer was released in the United States on April 30, 1982. Conan's US release was May 14, 1982. Conan premered in Spain March 16, 1982. It was released in Italy, Sweden, France, and The Netherlands before April 30. I looked it up in IMDB. It is a curiosity how two movies, released about the same time, had that same element.
This is an Oscar winner compared to Deathstalker or Ator.
I know right, Deathstalker has 5,1 on IMDB, and this has 5,4. That's just incredible.
I remember seeing part of this one saturday in my youth - the only thing I remembered was the Jello-demon and the shooty sword. Glad to finally know what it was called.
The Jello-demon or the shooty sword?😂
@@TheMartinChronicles Both, and the movie name.
1 up vote for "shooty sword", LOL!😆
I've actually seen "Tales of An Ancient Empire." it's even worse that it looks. most of the movie is done in front of a green screen. now, when you're green screening actors in front of a background one would assume you'd do it of an interesting background of something like a stormy sky, or a craggy mountain, or a lush forest. or maybe even something as exciting as a brick wall. nope. a lot is just vague papyrus-esque sepia tone haze. and the climatic final battle is presented in a narrated slideshow of still images of the characters standing there.
For some reason I still want to see the review of that train wreck.
Looking forward to your "Tales of the Ancient Empire" review! :)
Close to 1000 views and hasn't even been uploaded for an entire hour? I'd say you're doing okay so far.
But still, you guys always deserve way more views no matter how many you get.
Robin will be forced to review the sequel now. But he did it to himself.
@@themysteriousdomainmoviepalace if I'm not mistaken I believe the sequel at least has Kevin Sorbo in it and he's usually at least a pretty entertaining actor to watch.
I like the parts about coming soon and going before it’s too late, the humor of your review helps me more than you know 😉
the raising of the sorcerer is straight out of the Conan story Black Colossus.
Sweet! One of my all-time favorite bad 80s cheesefests! Thanks so much for reviewing this one. Quillemina the hedgehog and I are about to settle in and enjoy. 👍🏻😍🦔
Did I mention when I was......fifteen?......and the film was being promoted, the gruesome bloody red “wall of faces” seen in the beginning - built by the Chiodo Brothers, a company I would work on a number of features with - and their first official prop job in Hollywood, as they describe it. That thing was on display at the local Los Angeles Comic Book and Science Fiction Convention ! It’s held every month and at the time admission was FIFTY CENTS. 💜
@ Rodd Matsui. That's great that you got to work with the Chiodo brothers! I had an old Famous Monsters magazine back in the late '70s, and it had an article showing a young kid making monster masks and his last name was Chiodo. I've always wondered if that was one of the Chiodo brothers.
@1:45 You expected him to call for a doctor?
I am a fan of Albert Pyun but I remember when I first watched The Sword and the Sorcerer, I thought there was meant to be a twist where Talon wasn't the missing prince but an ass who had stolen the name. Can't wait for more reviews from the Pyuniverse
Pyuniverse, LOL! That's good!
Thanks for reviewing this one, but you're more than welcome to refrain from reviewing the belated sequel. Less Sorbo is always preferable to more Sorbo.
With me, the answer always seems to be "Plan 9 from Outer Space". Happy New year!
I immediately recognized the bald baddie. He played Mogua, the Huron chief badguy in The Last of the Mohicans. Steve Forrest as Hawkeye.
Also, this hero guy looks like Errol Flynn lol.
And I remember this movie...
He also played Thor (the green bald guy) who was L’s partner in *Starcrash*
Agreed, definitely a Flynn vibe.
I remember this one. I watched it with a friend who simply loved it for reasons I never really understood. I hated that sword. It would have been impossible to fight with, and I can't recall their ever showing how he replaced those blades once they were fired. Did I forget that bid? Did the blades simply grow back?
Just because Richard Lynch is in it I might give it a go. I've only seen him where he's playing a Vampire or bad guy.
Halloween reboot dude? He's sorta neutral as that character. He's not a villain but doesn't come off as a particularly sympathetic principal.
Ah, memories. Took a date to this one and got the "scream and get closer" response for the first time.
I can't believe that they finally made the promised sequel! Now if the makers of
"The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension" can give us the sequel that was promised in the end credits to that movie, I'll be happy.
An OG Blue Blaze Irregular seconds the motion!
I just realized that this review is a year old now, I don't know how I missed it.
Oh look, it's an early 1980s VHS video home rental starring Richard Lynch as a bad guy...who would have thought?!
It's a hoot, saw it at the flicks when it came out. Plot, who needs it? And it's got the mighty Richard Lynch! I wish you'd mention actor's names more often.
Anyone remember the 80s TV show Wizards and Warriors?
I don't know what your exact metrics needed to be, but I really look forward to the review of Tales of An Ancient Empire
This movie was an 80's Video shop classic! The VHS cover art was amazing!
Fun Movie Fact - the movie grossed $39,000,000 at the Box Office on a budget of $4 million, making it the most successful independent movie of 1982!
It made a profit but took 28 years for the sequel?
@@a.champagne6238 I guess they took the money and retired on it.
@@a.champagne6238 That wasn't really a sequel
This is a guilty pleasure of mine. I found it refreshing the overthrown heir had no interest in reclaiming the kingdom. He's a freebooting mercenary who's happy leading a company who clearly can't get by without him. It breaks the cliche.
While Talon is a bit of a heroic jerk, I still enjoy Lee Horsley's performance since he also played Matt Houston (one of my favorite TV shows) the same year. The sequel though is beyond terrible. There are some films that are "so bad, they're good" (Sword & Sorcerer) and then there's "so bad, it's an absolute chore to get through" (Tales Of Ancient Empire). Please don't waste your time reviewing the sequel, Robin. There are so many other films you need to review like "The Last Shark" (1981) and "Shock Waves" (1977). Yes, I'm still hoping for those reviews one day.😉
Yeah, Horsley was on that show 'round that time, and Kathleen Beller, yon sorceress was on "Dynasty" around that same time, or a little after, too.
They really made the sequel? Damn.
@@julietfischer5056 Indeed they did. Mostly with just green screens. Looks like a FMV game from the 1990's.
There's lots of recognizable faces in this. Some of which I'm betting would rather not be.
Loved this when I saw it on HBO 40 years ago. Richard Lynch, one of the greatest villains ever
Saw this one at the movies. After the STAR WARS wave subsided Science Fiction movies were on the out. When CONAN THE BARBARIAN came onto the scene, Fantasy movies were in. TS&S was one of the early Fantasy films and I didn't think it was too bad, but trust me when I say a lot of the ones that followed sucked ass on a professional level. It was like when the Ray Harryhausen's brilliant Fantasy films came out in the 60's and they were quickly followed by the awful dubbed Italian sword & sandal movies put out by American International Pictures to make a quick buck on the drive-in circuit.
The Deathstalker series comes to mind. Although at least those are generally campy enough to be enjoyable on that level.
Nobody recognizes Talon's sword. The royal sword. Or notes that he has the same name as the lost heir.
Yeah, it would have been better if this had been him coming back to take his rightful place as king.
I have the novel based on the film and at the end he does become king. I prefer the film's ending, much like The Beastmaster.
Eh, I don’t mind Micah being king instead. Blood heir or not, I hated Talon. He’s a perverted asshat.
Now this one scared the shit out of me as a kid. I remember seeing the cover in the video shop in 82. As a 5 year old I was having a sulk and really wanted a scooby soo video but stupidly chose sword. As you can imagine, in those days there wasn’t an 18 cert slapped on the cover, my mum put on the tape and I caught the bit with the wall of eyes and the heart being pulled out. Gave me nightmares for a few days. Found the film a good 15 years later and have kept it ever since. A good film considering the small budget. Gory, not quite up there with Fulcis Conquest, but an enjoyable romp, with a decent cast. Recommend this one.
Same here, except I was a little older and rented it myself (because no-one cared about age checks back then). My friends and I would rent any movie we wanted and watched it at my house because my parents were both out. My tolerance for scary stuff was much lower than my friends, and I remembered dreading every movie. Lots of zombie films and those graphic horror films. This was one of the few non-horror films we saw and I remember really liking it.
Convoluted plots? How about digging up multiple dead bodies...a hand from one, a foot from another, a head from a third, ad nauseum, and stitching them all together to make a new body? The movie is called Frankenstein. Why not just dig up one good dead body and reanimate it?
'And this video will have to do SPECTACULARLY well for us to review THAT' - good sir, you have got yourself a like and a comment!
Actually saw this movie in the movie theater. I was totally surprised to see George Maharis in the film. I thought he retired from acting. Didn't know Lee Horsley played the lead. Must have been one of his early roles. Of course, recognized him later in his career. Forgot how bad the dialogue was, but it was a fun movie.
I actually remember watching this- the demon rising out of the blood is cool but that sword must be high maintenance with blade replacement
"I actually alredy lost quite a lot of blood!..." It is a medieval setting, they used leeches as much as some people use sweetener, though.
Stupid calendar resets really can lead to confusion. Well, that and having no calendars.
Senator, then Chancellor Palpatine becoming Emperor of the Galactic Republic over the Star Wars prequels and Clone Wars - THAT was a convoluted plot.
I don't think I'd be nearly as harsh. It's a rolicking good time, with a very decent soundtrack, and much better than many other S&S movies of the period. It knows enough not to take itself too seriously, which is a problem films like Gor, The Barbarians, Deathstalker, and Barbarian Queen suffer from. Other better-than-they-have-a-right-to-be S&S films of the era include Hawk the Slayer, Beastmaster, and the made-for-TV movie Archer: Fugitive from the Empire.
leech is slang for doctor.
I absolutely LOVE 1980's sword and sorcery films, even the bad ones are guilty pleasures!
Seeing Richard Lynch, would you review Mil Mascaras vs the Aztec Mummy?
The subtle Message of this Movie is: Time is relative (very educational)👍
2:18 Now that is something I never thought I see. A sword that shoots other swords. That is a cool, WTF?, sword.
It is a very special motion picture indeed that can make Richard Lynch look like Rik Mayall's Lord Flashheart.
I absolutely love this movie! Sure it's corny but what sword and sorcery movie isn't? Besides, I was a huge fan of Lee Horsley at the time. If anything, the movie was just fun! I paid to see it four different times in theaters and drive-ins after all. Still own my VHS copy as well as DVD. I was really disappointed the sequel didn't happen in time for Horsley to return and didn't even watch it when I heard it was a Sorbo flick. Only good thing he ever did was Hercules.
FWIW, Lee Horsley does have a small cameo in TALES OF AN ANCIENT EMPIRE.
..."Cromwell" as the name of someone who kills the king and takes over the kingdom. That is vaguely like the infamous assassin Lehar Veyoswald.
Considering that Xuxia spends most of the time off-screen, and Talon spends most of his time running around the city unarmed, except for maybe a dagger, there's is precious little Sword and Sorcerer in this movie.
"You preening jack-ass!" 😆
The closed captions said "preeming". Which one is it?
Is that Leonid Brezhnev on your T-shirt by the way?
I watched loads of these movies when I was a kid, luckily I only remember the titles.
As much as I love The Wicker Man and hate the remake, it has to be said they both have very convoluted plans to lure their respective sacrifices.
True, but at least in the original it's due to them needing a very specific sacrifice.
It sounds like how this movie should have ended was the gods of Olympus looking down and opining, "These people are pathetic. Something should be done" Then the volcano explodes and the continent sinks below the waves. The screen says,, "And that is what happened to Atlantis."
If they can't stand up to those rats just think about how they couldn't handle the rats of Deadly Fangs.
A horde of hangry rats ain't nothing to mess with. Jon Rambo had more trouble out of them than most of the police officers & guardsmen in First Blood!
My brothers and I used to love this movie when we were kids and our parents would rent it on VHS for us from time to time. As much as anything I loved that Norman Tuttle was in it :)
Didn't Albert Pyun also direct the 90's Captain America?
Yes, the crap one with Matt Salinger
Oh my God, it wasn't until the last little bit that I realized this is one I saw on tv when I was young. I was always confused by it because I thought the hero was the brother of the woman he was trying to sleep with but didn't know it. I remember her having a thing for kneeing people in the groin and the demon wanted her too and almost bit her like a vampire.
Did you fail to mention Big McLargeHuge's cameo in this film? Cause I think you did! Great review. Love the film
One of my favorites growing up.
Best review ever! Can't wait for the review of the sequel!
No convoluted villain plan list can be completed without Lex Luthor on BvS
I think I saw that guy on Charlie's Angels once. And thats Kathleen Beller. She joined the cast of DYNASTY and got used to being called a wench.
Convoluted plots? A space station the size of a moon with an exploitable exhaust port comes to mind.
A cruel Cromwell? Not surprised.
Well, to answer your question: The bad guy's most convoluted plan has still to be the plot of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
I get a kick out of this as my friend Jeff Kinney assisted with the make-up and Special Effects.
I was just thinking about this movie a few days ago. Couldn't remember much about it. But seeing the review made me think about the movie Krull. Is it considered a bad movie?
Shout! Factory just put this out on 4K and it looks pretty damn good!
I remember really liking this as a kid, and finding it somewhat scary. In fact, it's one of the few movies where I rented it again years later because I liked it so much. I never noticed that the plot made absolutely no sense. I'm looking at Alana and thinking, "She looks familiar" and it took me a quick imdb to find that she was in Dynasty. Then I remembered that I actually watched Dynasty. And Dallas. As a kid. Back in the day where there was only one tv and the kids had to watch what the adults watched.
Didn't realize she was such a physical speciment.
Probably Pyun's biggest budget movie. That said he was very talented at making a shoestring budget look like a decent budget film. Almost all his films have a sort of loony fun. So on that sword. It's not like Attack on Titan where he has a holster full of replacement blades. I'm assuming he comes back later to grab them and reload it?
Whenever i watch a video i kinda feel obligated to leave a comment. Like when you visit a national park and sign the guest book. It was nice. Very nice.
Getting the 4K treatment next month
Sorry but I absolutely love sword and the sorcerer. Yes its everything you say , but in a world of PC movies that claim to have a brain, it's a retro breath of fresh air..
Was it 28 years before the sequel appeared? Or 31 years? 30?
A S&S story about raising a demon sorcerer from the dead in order to conquer a kingdom?
It's been done.
Nice tee...what's your fav Kurosawa film (admittedly a tough call)? Personally I'd have to go w/ Ran or Seven Samurai or Yojimbo (Tetsuya Nakadai and Toshiro Mifune easily being among the GOAT actors)
Tough call. Yojimbo is the one I've watched the most, Seven Samurai is a masterpiece of course, but Ikiru is perhaps my favourite, even though I would struggle to watch it again.
This movie was a fun watch. I first saw it back in the day with Joe Bob Briggs on TNT's Monster Vision.
1:55 wait, I thought Cromwell killed Charles? Oh well, English history is not my strong suit.
I THINK I saw this, or parts of it, on early cable as a little kid. The image of a demon with glowing finger nails, ripping someone's skin off in stuck in there and I don't know that context but it fits bits of what I've seen on this film.
The Sword and the Sorcerer...
Wonder what it's about?
Ah, Albert Pyun... the director of "Captain America" (1990)... known for sheer quality! Um...
Rip roaring adventure, predominately TV actors enjoying their big screen chance - its great!
The best convoluted bad guy plan is Hans Gruber's from Die Hard.
How dose he reload his sword?
It's never made clear.
@@DarkCornersReviews I know, i have the Rifftrax version and no one brought it up XD
I really liked this movie and I was very sorry that there wasn't another one, on the other hand, it does protect the castle..
Palpatine's plan in Star Wars: The Phantom Menace. Trying to take over by engineering a crisis and manipulating a ruler into calling for a vote of no confidence in the current leadership so he can seize power. It doesn't sound all that convoluted if you boil it down to the basics...until you realize that he can use the Force, and that a standard Force ability lets you control people's minds. He's made his plan so much more complicated than it needed to be, given that he could have just hypnotized the old leadership into stepping down and then rigged the vote the same way.
In fact, there are a ton of fantasy and sci-fi villain plans like this, where villains enact complicated plans using powers or magic technology that should render the entire plan pointless.
My parents had this on video disk - yes they were the people that bought one. Early teens so swords, sorcery and tits made it a must watch. Plot never made sense though.