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MOVIE OF THE DAY: THE SWORD AND THE SORCEROR

post #1 of 18
9/24/10 at 12:40pm
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Vintage Pyun!

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post #2 of 18
9/24/10 at 12:45pm
I remember seeing this flick at the theater; packed house, huge screen. I was 13 and a half, and thought it was pretty awesome. Tits and a lich-like villain helped quite a bit.

Now...for me, this one's firmly in the "so bad it's awesome" category. For sure, there's a ton of nostalgia and sentimentality in that evaluation for me - but it's also that the film is so energetically bad; I mean, it keeps inventing new ways to be really awful.

And: THREE FLYING SWORD BLADES!
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post #3 of 18
9/24/10 at 12:45pm
One of the funniest things I've ever seen on TV was Joe Regalbuto talking about this movie on a talk show. I think it was Arsenio's.

He said he was trying to come up with a voice for his character and jokingly did a ridiculous pirate voice. Pyun heard him and exclaimed, "That's perfect!" And Regalbuto was stuck having to do that voice in the actual movie.

He also said something like, "At the end, when it says 'coming soon, the return,' everybody in the theater started groaning and booing."

I hate that it's out of print.
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post #4 of 18
9/24/10 at 12:46pm
You had me at referencing Bad Dreams.

Now I have to see this out of morbid curiosity. Hilarious.
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post #5 of 18
9/24/10 at 12:51pm
I work for Adrian Paul's children's charity (extremely nice man, by the way) and got to be M.C. at a Highlander TV series convention in Los Angeles several years ago, and one of the guests of honor was Richard Lynch (who'd done an episode in the third season). I got to spend some time talking to him backstage before one of the panels began, and he was really nice. Got a photo somewhere that I'll try to find.

The sequel is filmed but I don't know if it's finished. Do you know anything about it, Nick?

Horsley is back as Talon, by the way. Makes me want to watch some Matt Houston.
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post #6 of 18
9/24/10 at 12:52pm
Did you READ THE ARTICLE?
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post #7 of 18
9/24/10 at 12:55pm
Sorry, sorry, sorry. Reading CHUD at work and trying to be sneaky and tabbed past the end without realizing.
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post #8 of 18
9/24/10 at 12:58pm
Despite it showing a severe lack of taste on my part I can't hate this film. Not only does the hero kill someone with a leg of lamb but he pulls himself off of a friggin cross at the villains’ evil banquet!

Far too much of a guilty pleasure I’m afraid.
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post #9 of 18
9/24/10 at 1:01pm
The Supercuts caption wins the internet today.
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post #10 of 18
9/24/10 at 1:03pm
I recently did a double feature of this and 'Hawk the Slayer'. It was glorious.
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post #11 of 18
9/24/10 at 1:42pm
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Originally Posted by Egg View Post
The Supercuts caption wins the internet today.
I liked the random Shannon Hoon reference myself.

On-topic: Kathleen Beller . . . DROOL!
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post #12 of 18
9/24/10 at 2:48pm
It may be terrible, but I'm still fond of it, especially the atmospheric opening at the cave,

TALES OF AN ANCIENT EMPIRE looks much worse though. Agonizing. Makes Boll's BLOODRAYNE look almost serviceable. I'll watch it. I'm a sucker for all things Sword & Sorcery. I own the Deathstalker and Ator series for crying out loud. S&S is a head and shoulders above the worst of the genre at least.

God, I hope BARBARIANS (with the barbarian twins) gets a dvd release so Nick can pummel it.
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post #13 of 18
9/24/10 at 5:20pm
While it's doubly thrilling to see folks pull memories of this one from the recesses of the past and others look upon it with fresh and unprejudiced eyes, I'm the teensiest bit embarrassed that this (and a good deal of these of films) never really faded for me. Yeah, it's a good deal of nostalgia that's involved, and my prime appreciation has obviously changed over the decades, but I just couldn't shake 'em.

MichaelM is objectively correct when he calls it "energetically bad". What keeps me drawn is that it's such a dopily sincere energy.



And this seems as good a place as any to ask: Just how is Pyun's name pronounced?

Way back on Sci-Fi's Trailer Park Tom Davis pronounced it as "Pie-In". Since the show was built on a sarcastic edge (and he also referred to Boris Sagal as "Sagle"), I've never been sure. Unfortunately, this guy doesn't come up very often in daily conversations around here, so I've never gotten a reference point. Up till then (and still, when I'm feelin naughty!) I pronounced it "Pyoon".
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post #14 of 18
9/24/10 at 5:23pm
One of the best, ever. Gotta watch it tonight, in lack of anything else on.
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post #15 of 18
9/24/10 at 5:41pm
In tone, this piece is a condemnation, but in spirit, it's a celebration. As I celebrate this film and Nick's condemning piece. I'm so confused. And yet, heart-warmed. Because of pieces like this and the latest film fluid list, I feel so brutalized and in love at the same time. Never change, CHUD!
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post #16 of 18
9/25/10 at 6:34pm
The Sword and the Sorcerer isn't high art, but I like it.
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post #17 of 18
9/25/10 at 7:21pm
I'll go to my grave defending Horsley as Talon. He is surprisingly charismatic here.
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post #18 of 18
2/12/12 at 11:11am
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Originally Posted by John Bierly View Post

The sequel is filmed but I don't know if it's finished. Do you know anything about it, Nick?

Horsley is back as Talon, by the way. 


The semi-sequel TALES OF AN ANCIENT EMPIRE finally hit US DVD at the end of January via Lionsgate.  I recently did a write up on the film's development history, from the 1980s until 2011.  I even got to interview Pyun about it.  You can check it out here if you want.

 

http://originalvidjunkie.blogspot.com/2012/01/never-got-made-files-71-tales-about.html

 

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