KRULL (1983) - Fantasizing About Fantasy Films

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Back in the 1980's, every studio in town was chasing the success of STAR WARS by releasing their own sci-fi epics. In the meantime, CONAN THE BARBARIAN brought the fantasy genre back to the mainstream, and if you put STAR WARS and CONAN THE BARBARIAN together, you might get something like 1983's KRULL. A pricey epic from Columbia Pictures, this fantasy flick was directed by Peter Yates, and starred Ken Marshall as the swashbuckling hero Colwyn, a handsome prince armed with a sword and something even cooler - a mystical weapon called The Glaive.
He embarks on a quest to save his beloved (a dubbed Lysette Anthony) with a merry band of thieves (including a young Liam Neeson) from a terrifying beast. The score by James Horner should have been enough to make this a classic, but it crashed and burned at the box office. Yet, it became a cult hit, so grab your Glaive and let's revisit the mystical land of KRULL!
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@fennec13 3 года назад

Krull and Ice Pirates are two films very much of their time - I don't think we'll see such treasures like that again. Everything has to be a sequel or franchise. It's sad, the films of the 80's are sorely missed

@jbjacobs9514 3 года назад

Two of my faves! I still laugh my butt off every time I see that scene in Ice Pirates where the robots pee out bolts. I was lukewarm about Krull when I saw it in the movies in 83, but when it came on cable afterward I totally fell in love with it and watched it a zillion times. I am so glad to have them both on dvd. :-)

@BuckarooBanzai84 3 года назад

Absolutely nailed it. =( =)

@scottmantooth8785 3 года назад

*movies today play it safe and as a result are unimaginative, predictable and totally boring with a heavy reliance on gender swapping and virtue signalling giving any movie a re-watch ratio of slightly less than zero...and that;s being generous if not overly optimistic*

@chevalierjd 3 года назад

Don't forget Buckaroo Bonzai!

@BuckarooBanzai84 3 года назад

@@chevalierjd Absolutely! A classic! (however, rumor has it that a 'BB'-sequel is in the works... =0)

@Shadowman4710 3 года назад

Really underrated film. I'm glad to see it's developed a cult following over the years.

@randomrangoon5476 3 года назад

Funny how that goes with movies like these. Good one

@andylikesstuffchannel 3 года назад

Because films now are garbage and bog standard

@thepayne7862 3 года назад

Love Krull one of my favorite 80's movies.

@ZephrusPrime 3 года назад

When Krull first came out I used to collect those little ice cream sticks that were a bit wider and longer. Glue them together to look like a Krull Blade. They only lasted one throw but I'll tell you, in the 80's many things became Krull Blades and Tron Disks!

@chevalierjd 3 года назад

Yes! I thought I was the only one!

@timulewicz466 3 года назад

Haha me too!!

@henmich 3 года назад

Not to mention every backpack I owned being turned into a proton pack.

@beeman2075 3 года назад

In between the big, special effects scenes and battles, I've always enjoyed the small character moments in this film, like when Ergo ('the Magnificent!') transforms himself into a puppy to comfort the young boy they encounter, or when Ynir is conversing with the Widow of the Web about their lost love.

@germanicelt Год назад

Also the mountain climbing scene and the music.

@italosblogtalkradio4279 Год назад

I remember that scene 🎬

@shainewhite2781 3 года назад

The music by James Horner is amazing and adventurous.

@jasonblalock4429 3 года назад

For awhile in the 90s, the soundtrack was one of the rarest and most valuable in his catalog. And pretty much every time it got rereleased on CD, it sold out almost immediately. (Back in ye olden times before all music could be downloaded.)

@andylikesstuffchannel 3 года назад

@@jasonblalock4429 yeah remember old school was far better you had to actually make effort back then I'm 45

@ZigUncut 3 года назад

@@andylikesstuffchannel one of his best. A dry run for Willow?

@commandercaptain4664 3 года назад

@@andylikesstuffchannel Better now that everyone gets to hear this classic. It should never be lost in time.

@johnflynn8879 4 месяца назад

He wrote the soundtrack for this and star trek 2 in 12 weeks. He then had a nervous breakdown.

@beefiron 3 года назад

I saw this in TV in the late 80's, aged about 13. It ignited a lifelong love of fantasy and sci-fi.

@johnlawful2272 3 года назад

He looks like chris pratt

@808v1 3 года назад

pretty much the same here, this movie was made for a kid like me back then :)

@chevalierjd 3 года назад

Saw it with my Dad when I was a kid too. Loved all Sci-fi fantasy ever since.

@germanicelt Год назад

I too was 13 in the late 80s, though I first saw Krull when it was new on VHS in 1985. It was a glorious time. Part of me is still stuck there.

@Runningdeering 2 года назад

My dad showed us this when we were kids and we fell in love with it. I still watch it every few years. Such a classic.

@nelsonadorno2910 3 года назад

Wow I remember seeing this movie when I was 8, crazy how time flies. I use to watch it all the time when it was on cable, and i have on DVD today.

@daveb1930 3 года назад

It blew my mind when I recently found out that Prince Colwyn and Deep Space Nine's Michael Eddington were played by the same person. It's the second biggest mind blowing bit of sci-fi trivia I've learned recently.

@jinxie712 3 года назад

Watched Krull as a kid every chance I could get. Probably more than the Star Wars OT.

@stiimuli 2 года назад

As a kid in the '80's this movie fascinated me from start to finish. It was thematically familiar but with so many bizarre ideas executed so well (for the time).

@struckfire3337 3 года назад

I used to make the krull throwing star weapon out of everything and anything ..plates ...popsicle sticks... I had one that I made out of popsicle sticks that I used for years

@Palmieres 3 года назад

I really loved Krull as a child, and I'm still very fond of it today. There's something about it, the darkness, the fact that it's not afraid to be frightening even while it's aimed at young audiences. The mixing of science fiction and fantasy makes it even better, and the whole idea of the fortress travelling to a new place every day makes for a great McGuffin that actually works and manages to keep the story mystical and charming. I have a strange fascination with the scene of the lady at the center of the spider's web, her conversation with the old man and how they quickly reminisce over their lost love before both giving up their lives in order to help another couple have what they didn't. It's wonderful and sad and terrifying.

@caeserromero3013 3 года назад

In the 80's Leonard Nimoy did a movie magazine type show called lights camera action that did a behind the scenes feature on this movie before it came out. It featured the fire mare scene being shot. I remember watching the film on video when it came out. It was good, but not great. I was also a fan of Hawk the Slayer. I even picked up the novelisation at a carboot sale around 1985. The woman who plays the witch is Patricia Quinn from Rocky Horror show.

@SovereignKnight74 2 года назад

Because you had reviewed this particular film, it has earned you a subscriber. 🤘

@rokasrerroca7399 3 года назад

I loved Krull when I saw it for the 1st time on HBO! I also really enjoyed the mythology of how the Cyclops race was born of a bad trade with the Beast and the sands of the hourglass combined with the mythos of the three sisters and the threads of a life. It lends itself to more exploration on many levels; one of the great, unrecognized, movies of that generation (all generations).

@assanchop1574 3 года назад

I unabashedly LOVE this movie. It's one of the few 80's flicks I'd ACTUALLY like to see remade.

@Beer_Dad1975 Год назад

They would probably just mess it up. Look at the Willow series. The Dark Crystal is the only modern take on an 80's film that has been any good, and it got cancelled despite rating well.

@zombiehampster1397 Год назад

I feel the same way, although I worry about how a remake is handled...I'd be worried if they were to ruin it in some way.

@germanicelt Год назад

A remake wouldn't be as good. Maybe a sequel, if done right.

@truefanforum3273 3 года назад

This is one of my favorite movies. And I love some of the sets for the interior of the Black Fortress. They had a very organic look, as if they were part of the Beast. And the Slayers were awesome!

@Montross 3 года назад

Hey her reading actually got better, like by alot. The speech therapist is paying off. Kudos to that!

@tomfrazier1103 3 года назад

Mom was an old Sci-fi head from the '50s-'60s, and this was VCR as babysitter fare for us. I liked this one, along with Clue. Sleestaks!

@ChrisLovesComics 3 года назад

More people need to know this movie.

@marcburroughs2969 3 года назад

When I was a kid in the 80's, me and dad would go movies all summer long. Krull was easily one of our favorites. Few months ago Krull was on tv; my wife watched it too and really enjoyed.

@Briansgate 2 года назад

Doesn't matter how many time I see her, or how long it's been. Lysette Anthony was one of the most beautiful women ever in cinema.

@djnary2896 3 года назад

An absolute favorite of mine in the genre. I first discovered it via the comics adaptation in my school library when I was in 5th grade (1984-85 school year) and actually saw the film on HBO not long after. I loved it so much that when I got a tape recorder for my 11th birthday, I (inspired by the Story of Star Wars record album) recorded my own truncated audio version off an HBO broadcast, carefully selecting which scenes to cut out and where to stop and flip the tape to resume recording so the story would fit on a 90 minute tape and still make sense. My first first experiment in editing. :)

@germanicelt Год назад

I too was in the 5th grade in 1984, and saw Krull the first time the year after, when it was a new release on VHS. I never saw it again until 2000 when I hired it. I also got the Return of the Jedi story on LP, with picture book.

@willieg7895 3 года назад

You gotta love krull. Great fantasy movie from way back in the day. I love that movie. One of liam neeson's first movies and also has the school teacher from Willy Wonka as a shape shifter and Robbie Coltrane from Harry Potter in it.

@JoBloOriginals 3 года назад

Dubbed Robbie Coltrane!

@darrenwilson9180 5 месяцев назад

And Todd carty from Grange Hill

@derworfnet Год назад

James Horners' Score is just magnificent.

@elskeletor3566 3 года назад

I was always blown away by this film as a kid anytime it came on TV I would watch.

@Vitatalks 3 года назад

Absolute classic!

@biguy617 3 года назад

I had the board game

@MementoMorituri 3 года назад

Thank for showing how special these films are. I can't wait for you to do Hawk the Slayer.

@NoJusticeNoPeace 3 года назад

The fate of the cyclops really affected me when I was younger, freighted as it was with deeper meanings about free will, selflessness, and existential purpose in the face of destiny. It's quite likely it helped shape my lifelong interest in philosophy, especially deontology, existentialism, and phenomenology. Incidentally, I have a suggestion for you. There's a limited selection of fantasy films, so perhaps when you start to run short you can explore the lord and worlds of some of the more cinematic fantasy video games like Ultima, Bard's Tale, and the Elder Scrolls.

@germanicelt Год назад

This is one of those movies I wish I saw at the cinema when I was a kid.

@zombiehampster1397 Год назад

Krull is the kind of movie i can always watch and still do

@clockztickin 3 года назад

Definitely going to watch this with my girl asap because she's never seen it 🤦🏾

@thorzyan 3 года назад

"Only the king and the lord Marshall have that key!"

@WaverBoy 2 года назад

An absolutely fantastic and incredibly incisive video retrospective/appreciation of one of my fave films of all time that does a great job of expressing what I love about this unfairly maligned eternally underrated cult classic, and even told me some things about it I didn’t know. Excellent work. Thank you so much!!! 🙏🏻❤️

@ersturdevant2831 3 года назад

The ultimate '80's mall matinee movie. Memories...

@ashtonturner2862 3 года назад

One of my favorite fantasy/adventure movies from the 80s

@JackSmith-gv5yw 3 года назад

I absolutely loved Krull, it's one of my all time favourite films. I can say I'm one of the cult followers...awesome sound-track as well.

@jav3134 3 года назад

Man, I use to love this movie. Use to watch all the time in the early 90’s when HBO use to show it all the time.

@tomhahnl1927 3 года назад

I LOVED this Movie as a Kid, I LOOOOOVED it!! I want a reboot now!!!

@darenrobertson9199 2 года назад

we only had a few vhs tapes growing up, my brother and I watched krull so much that we wore the tape out

@carlosdelcampo119 3 года назад

Thank you for this video you made me reminisce back to the time when I was just a kid, I was only 5 years of age when this movie came out and my parents took me to see it to the local movie theater. I fell in love with with the fantasy genre after watching Krull. I remember being so scared of the Beast; good memories.

@twilightparallax 3 года назад

Another great job, Jessica. The insights into these fantasy classics are always great. Love this show.

@JessicaDwyer 3 года назад

Thank you!!!!

Месяц назад

I was 6 years old going on 7 when I saw Krull at the cinema in 1983 for my cousin's birthday. I came out majestic by it, my 4 year older than myself female cousin looked distraught and not happy at all, she hated it! It is one of my earliest memories. I also remember in about 1986 renting it on VHS video for £3, £3 is crazy expensive in today's money, probably £15!

@zidbits1528 3 года назад

Wait, is that Eddington from Star Trek DS9? I was 3 or 4 when Krull came out so I didn't watch it until around 1990 when my father bought the VHS. I loved this movie, never realized that the main character was Eddington.

@mjmjr91 3 года назад

It is!

@randyriffers603 3 года назад

Surprising, isn't it? He looks so different with hair.

@imustbecrazy5626 3 года назад

Ice Pirates. Yeah. Do that one. Space Herpes.

@christopherlacher3544 3 года назад

LOL I love that movie!!! Must have the water!! Chop them testies too!!

@renatateofilo9887 3 года назад

I grew up watching this movie. It's marvelous.

@rikflag6 3 года назад

I saw this movie once when I was 7 or 8 and was so afraid after the changeling scene. Years later I saw the movie again and though: „well, I was so young, it probably wasn‘t that scary at all.“ And … boy, that scene was fucking scary :D

@Thekhajjah Год назад

I've always loved this movie. It was just perfect imagery

@ministerofdarkness 3 года назад

I would watch this movie every time it came on cable in the 80s! Great video Jessica

@aikisteven0616 3 года назад

Love this one! Wanted to see it SOOO bad when it came out, but I was only 12, and my parents weren't big movie goers, so I had to wait several years to rent it. Such a fun 'throw everything at the wall & see what sticks' sort of story. Thank you for bringing this one back to mind!

@sisyphus8870 3 года назад

Childhood video shop favourite.

@paulaburrows8660 3 года назад

When I was a kid I would always mix this up with Hawk the Slayer.

@scottmantooth8785 3 года назад

*hawk the Syayer was an awesomely off the wall fun movie to watch*

@nicholasmorsovillo2752 3 года назад

This was the very first movie I ever saw with Liam Neeson and another was Excalibur.

@245-TRIOXIN 3 года назад

Great movie. One of my favourites, along with Disney's The Black Hole.

@StoneyBrownTV 3 года назад

I loved this movie as a kid though my parents hated it. I would watch it over and over.

@darkhymnsfromthecoldnorth 3 года назад

I never did see this movie. You guys have sold me, yet again!

@rocker0486 10 месяцев назад

Love this movie and especially the music to it.

@benjaminedenfield3368 3 года назад

Love the movie! And, THANK YOU for the Pyramids of Mars reference!

@JessicaDwyer 3 года назад

One of my faves!

@benjaminedenfield3368 3 года назад

@@JessicaDwyer Something about Tom's episodes, amazing or awful, and not much room in either directions lol. My favorite for being original in story, costumes, world building, is got to be Robots of Death.

@JessicaDwyer 3 года назад

@@benjaminedenfield3368 That's a great one. I think the reason I love Pyramids so much is how it had a fantastic villain in Sutekh but also how much it felt like an old Hammer movie. Also Lis Sladen

@lknanml 3 года назад

EPIC movie!! I always follow this one up with The Dark Crystal, Ice Pirates and Time Bandits.

@iLLWiLL173 3 года назад

An absolute gem of a movie...i remember watching this on HBO in the late 80s as a kid...loved this movie then and now...as someone else said in the comments I'm happy it's picked up a cult following... people need to watch movies from the 80s. So many amazing movies during that decade..

@richborn6700 8 месяцев назад

I was in home daycare in 2001 when I was shown this film. I was 7 years old and fell in love with it. Id check it out occasionally as a teenager from Hollywood Video. I gotta pick up my own copy soon

@lukebaldock4672 3 года назад

I loved this as a kid and still do today

@nerdpill6776 3 года назад

amazing vhs cover and that book was everywhere back in the day. good vid!

@phaze29 3 года назад

Saw it in the theater. To this day, I always wanted to stick my hand in lava and pull out a flying star.🌟

@mmickle6191 3 года назад

Some of the scenes of the princess trapped in the lair look weirdly similar to fever dreams I had when a kid. Those scenes always unnerve me - makes what should be spooky, much more so! Great film!

@michaelstaunton1632 3 года назад

A great look back at this film 🎥 👍

@spiceweasle3945 Год назад

KRULL was just so wonderfully 80's!!! A true flght of fantasy. And my god...THE GLAIVE!!! In the top 5 sci-fi weapons!!!!

@kahnkretefpv7594 2 года назад

I had this on vhs. My little brother and must've seen it a hundred times. As a kid (and now) I've RPG's and this movies has all the classic elements of a great game turned into a movie. The classic princess needs saving, but the prince can't do it alone. He needs to recruit fighters,magicians, cyclops and find special items and weapons. Mythical animals to traverse long distances and of course...sword swinging magic. This movie was just mandatory viewing if you grew up in the 80's.

@jasonpapai73 3 года назад

Saw this in the theatre as a 10 year old. I liked it a lot

@Lordradost 3 года назад

Once: "I would love remakes of beloved films!" Wizened after experience: "I do not want to go through another heartache."

@joeyd1404 3 года назад

always loved this movie!!

@matthallett4126 3 года назад

My father made a de-scrambler with parts from radio shack, I can't imagine how he got the plans before the internet. It had a dial and a curly wire that dangled in front of the TV (cathode-ray tube back then). Stations where broadcasting these scrambled over air channels, and you needed to buy their equipment to watch them. But with this hack we could pirate movies in the 80s. I watched this when I was 8.. it was rated PG, what the hell man. It still haunts me. Yes I eventually used it to watch porn.

@Aaron-io8vw 3 года назад

Freddie Jones was also in Dune as Thufir Hawat, the Atredies master of Assasins but he disappears halfway through because the studio cut more than half of his scenes.

@Kraigmire 3 года назад

I saw this movie when I was very young. It gave me so many nightmares. This is the first time I realized what that movie was.

@boblowes 2 года назад

I absolutely love Krull. It's a fun fantasy movie, marrying fantasy with sci-fi easily. It's less Star Wars, and more Lord of the Rings meets Flash Gordon, imho Alun Armstrong, who plays Torquill, leader of the bandits, was friends at school with my dad. They were both in the drama society, and went on to join the UK's National Youth Theatre, and remain friends to this day. I love the fact that Alun's name appears before Liam Neeson in the credits - that certainly wouldn't happen now :D

@rcschmidt668 Год назад

This movie was pure 80s fun. The book was enjoyable, and I remember the arcade game was pretty good.

@alanrockunited 3 года назад

Thanks for this, a real hidden gem of a film.

@hectorp885 3 года назад

I saw this at the theatre like 10 times when it can out. Still hoping for a sequel. Yes about their Son ruling the Galaxy would be so cool. Do people still say Cool? I do.

@Turanga1i1a 3 года назад

Krull was back then and still is dear to me. I still enjoy watching it now. Its blend of sci fi and fantasy makes it I'd say accurately described as Star Wars meets King Arthur. I so love Horner's epic score...so underrated! The Beast is my #1 scariest image from childhood. I could remember even in my mid thirties seeing his horrific image after being waken in the middle of the night by a thunderstorm. A strange coincidence is the two consecutive days when Freddie Jones and Rip Torn passed away. Torn starred in the movie responsible for my #2 scariest moment - The Beastmaster (because of that child sacrifice scene).

@cptnkrenon 3 года назад

I saw this at the cinema in 1983 and I thought it was great.

@DragonKingX78 3 года назад

Love this movie, so underrated.

@AbrasiousProductions 2 года назад

my mother introduced me to this classic i remember watching the end battle scene at like 7 in the morning and being scared whenever the beast's head would look up when the main guy was trying to grab the weapon

@Adrian-X1 Год назад

Loved this one as well. Really thought it was cool how the glaive actually had a mind of its own as you saw at the end. Sweet ass movie!

@TheGamerZapocalypse 2 года назад

A real gem. This movie was clearly a inspiration for many of the elements in the Mutant Chronicles IP...

@Hughes81 2 года назад

Still one of my all time Favorites.

@f1jones544 3 года назад

Saw this in high school at the theater. So bad that we loved it and never stopped talking about it. It was our cult classic before there was such a thing. It also didn't help that all of us were in love with the princess. In all honesty that was probably 98% of the appeal. Whatever makes it memorable almost 40 years later, among a lot of movies we saw that we wouldn't remember.

@ianrotten4453 3 года назад

Man oh man, would I LOVE to see a sequel. I saw this in the theatre several times, and it was one of the very first DVDs I bought and still have. Worth a watch if one hasn't seen it!

@khartog01 3 года назад

Krull is the best one shot dnd game in movie form ever.

@codyt821 3 года назад

Ive never watched this, because everyone I know trashes it. But I am now, because this looks awesome!!!!

@MANTRAPLAYSGAMES 3 года назад

My childhood in a film.

@serenausagi676 3 года назад

One of my favorite movies. I’ve always wanted to see this one remade

@danielduncan6806 3 года назад

Be careful what you wish for. It might be worth it to just be happy with your memories, and leave it at that. Maybe watch it again and appreciate it for what it is again. It is highly unlikely that, even if a remake was made, it would live up to the original. Don't know many directors, or studios, that don't want to leave their own mark on their remakes and sequels. Is that what you want?

@cmdrcriton 3 года назад

Loved this movie as an early teen.

@MickeyKnox 3 года назад

I've seen Krull in the theater when I was 8 or 9 years old and it scared the crap out of me, but at the same time it was entertaining as hell ... love the film.

@Geep1778 3 года назад

Saw Krull as a young kid and thought I was the only one who even remembered it.

@handznet 3 года назад

I love this movie. Definitely one of the best 80s Fantasy movies (with a scifi elements). The simple plot of a hero traveling a land on his quest and collecting companions along the way is the basic but proven formula that when done well works great. Here it does. The music from James Horner is absolutely gorgeous.

@KidFresh71 3 года назад

I saw Krull in the theater when I was 12 years old, and became obsessed. Proceeded to draw the Glaive weapon multiple times per day throughout 8th grade. Pretty sure I though the weapon was called Krull though lol.

@neilprice513 2 года назад

Krull would actually be a cool property to remake as a TV show. You would need to get the right team of writers, sadly good writers in Hollywood are rare nowadays and the studio's usually go with what is cheapest.