so according to the wiki: "In 1996, for the 25th Anniversary Games Day, Games Workshop released (for limited sale) a short movie entitled Inquisitor. This movie was created using clips and footage that had been created as a pitch to Games Workshop for a movie deal. There were also trailers for two other films, Hive Infestation and Blood for the Blood God. Hive Infestation pitted Space Wolf Terminators against a Genestealer cult infestation of a Hive world. Blood for the Blood God portrayed Orks and Dark Angel Space Marines fighting along with an Inquisitor"
As an additional some of the props, costumes and aesthetics were used in the game Warhammer 40k Epic: Final Liberation, Gavin Naylor who also played the Chaos Lord here also had a part in it as the voice of Warboss Skroll and the Ork leaderz, e.g. in the intro "OKAY HUMIE, LETS SEE WHEREZ YOU'SE WAS GOIN'"
I remember this, or similar live action short films, being reported in White Dwarf back in the day - of course back in 1996 it would have taken about 5 years to download a video like this over the internet, so all we saw of it were film stills.
That's some pretty amazing math, considering that GW started in 1975. 25 years in the space of 21 years, that's some warp-space time compression if ever there were such a thing.
After blowing the entire budget on the consumes they only had enough money left for a Styrofoam pillar and by god, they were going to make sure everyone saw that pillar. LOL, the thing is in every shot.
My only complaint is the glaring lack of size difference between baseline human and Astartes. Other than that, it's a fun bit of vidfile to enjoy on my data slate... *Praise be to HE that sits the Golden Throne,* Brothers!
@@PsyckoSamaIts really not that difficult, the legs just need a bit of a platform in them, say 10 or 12 inches, get a 6ft guy in there and boom, noticable height difference in the marine.
@@mikehawkisb1gIt's more than just height. You'd need a lot of girth and size. There's a reason I said "on a classic doctor who budget with practical effects in 1995". Those are three important factors that apply: Classic Dr Who Budget, practical effects, and 1995. In 2023 we can do it because of 3d printing and advances in CG. You can 3d print the parts of a suit and build yourself something like modern SM cosplay suits or you can CG it in using modern computers, but we didn't have those tools in 1995. In '95 the various parts of the suit would have had to be hand-crafted and fitted with the increases in costs to match... while using CG would have looked terrible and required the use of either an Amega farm with Lightwave or time on a full Silicon Graphics workstation... and probably still would have looked like ass. These days, easy, then? Not so easy.
No complaints here, this is probably what a 'realistic' marine would look like. There are limits to human biology that can't be overcome by augmentation. Tall basketball players, for example, have a lot of strain on their joints
The acting in the main part was actually decent, and the Terminator suits in the short Genestealer clip looked appropriate. No comment regarding the Orks. 😂
The fact that this was made in 1996 makes it really amazing. I was born in 1989 and I remember the quality of movies released during the 90s. Power rangers was among the popular live-action sci-fi shows.
Hot take: I want to see a full feature in this style, tho moreso those two "trailers." Just 90s B-movie goodness with scenes clearly shot on a soundstage with a fog machine or an abandoned chemical plant, with wet puppets; physical costumes and janky background effects out the wazoo. Like, I could see Astron-6 making something like this if GW gave them the license and the budget...
This was only the beginning, brothers. Soon, we will all see a true live-action Warhammer 40k show/movie. Praise be the Emperor and his holy vessel, Henry Cavill!
@@hunterbidenparmesanimports5633 I've was playing Warhammer tabletop in the nineties and collected the Warhammer monthly comics. You probably heard about it a week ago. Lol pathetic
i was pleasantly surprised by the level of production in this. I really would have enjoyed this in the 90's. though I'm glad i got to experience this now
This is really cool. It has a 1980's Dr Who kind of charm to it. I really wish that Games Workshop had continued to produce more of these 40K films back in the 90's.
15:10 Captain Darius made a, I think, serious command error, in that a single marine is a very vulnerable marine. He should have kept his men in pairs.
I actually like teleportation effects at 18:45, and how bolters sound, and how the Warp... warpes things at 23:02. I understand that this is very old-fashioned but in my mind I imagine wh40k just like this, not like pew-pew-lasers and flashy bangs.
The end with the nyd’s and the orc’s I swear looked like a Gwar show. Don’t know if any of you have ever been to a Gwar concert or even watched a video but it looks just like that. Except the blood(red water) is getting sprayed on the crowd the whole time and it’s awesome
maybe its just me seeing things like how you can see things in the clouds, but around the 13 minute mark when they're crossing the stone bridge, the camera being below them looking up at the bridge and the cliff face. It kinda looks like the stone bridge is like... two arms with the hands clasping together in the middle, and there's a worn down torso/head in the rocky cliff. very cool if that was indeed intentional.
Some kids here really underestimate the effort it took in 1996 to make footage, SFX and not to mention props like this. Back then, I definitely would have loved to watch stuff like this.
I knew this wasn’t a dream!!! It’s real!!! I’m actually very impressed with this. Grateful to see how far Warhammer 40k has come. All the games (tabletop/video games), books, and a show on the way.
Fun fact: the reason this film was filmed mostly in black and white is because GW only gave permission to use paint from the official store, safe to say no one is that rich
considering the time this was made and the limited resources they had to create it, this is very good. the only real negative point is the size of the space marines: they are just normal human size. but again, due to the time this was made, difficult to create realistic space marine, as they are described in the storys. thanks for sharing this piece of history.
having watched most of the disappointing warhammer+ content, i can clearly say, this is how its done, Even for a short film, its a good solid story, suspense, characterdev., dialogues, well done, just imagine they d been given a bigger budget
Considering the age, its actually pretty good, some of the masks were a bit funny, but over all pretty enjoyable! Funny Ive been a fan since the mid 1990's and never saw this.
There's a camp brilliance to this that the die hard CG fan films miss. They lean too far into the grimness and miss how ridiculous it all is aand should be
@AdolfHitler-wo1my You're exactly why the fandom sucks. Remove the silliness and it's too poe-faced you can't have that much posturing latin, cathedral ships, Orks and big mighty uscled super chad men without the silly. Without the silly it's just stupid
