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
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.
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
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.
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 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!
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@@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 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!
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.
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.
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. 👍🏻😍🦔
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!
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.
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.😉
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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 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.
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.
This film is the epitome, pinnacle of 80s movie cheese! It has a permanent place in my collection! The babes, the dialogue, the babes, the violence, the babes, the gore and did I mention the babes?
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?
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."
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.
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..
I want to know where he gets refill blades for his magical sword. Is there a Weapons 'R' Us? "HI, do you have any refill blades for a Xizaru magic sword?" "Um, I think we might be out of those. Do you need the model A or B?" "What's the difference?" "Well, the Model A has the special quick release that allows it to shoot off more smoothly, which gives it better stopping power for impaling your enemies, but it only works on upgraded models of the sword. If you have the older model, you'll have to use a model B." "Well, mine's fairly old, so it probable uses the model B." "In that case you're in luck. I happen to have one carton of model Bs left. It a three-pack so you always have a spare and I can let you have it for only six gold pieces." "Wow that is a good bargain! It normally costs me three gold pieces per blade!" "You know they're re-usable, right?" "Yeah, but sometimes I shoot an enemy and he falls over a cliff, or I miss and it gets stuck in a rock. You ever try to pull a magic, flying blade out of a rock? It ain't easy!" "Yeah we've all been there!"
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.
As a kid, I remember being sorely disappointed by this film. Given the title, I thought it must be the very best of its genre, like 'they' wouldn't call it that if it wasn't the ultimate sword and sorcery film. It was a bitter disillusionment and lesson learned.
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.
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.
I actually saw this at the cinema when it first came out - only reason I remember it is because of that stupid sword. Even as a kid it was immediately obvious how impractical it was and how it couldn't possibly work.
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.
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 :)
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.
Ah, fantasy films of the 80's. When you could jam the plot of Game of Thrones into an 85 minute movie and still had to pad it out with slapstick and boobs.
