Monster of the Day #3630

Updated on November 25, 2024 By Ken Begg 8 Comments

Re: last Friday’s watch party. I don’t know if it’s my computer or Kast or using Edge as my browser (which I do only for that, since Kast requires it), but I was having real issues getting the long movie I blathered on about all week. Finally, with the window for starting a long movie having already passed, and with the regular time right upon me, I went to my Amazon Prime watch list and choose Hawk the Slayer. People seemed to enjoy it.

As for T-Fest 2024, the very last thing I watched before returning to Chicago the next day was for the edification of Sandy’s grand daughter Madeleine. Last year we showed her Duck Soup, and this year it was another comedy classic, The Brainiac. What else can I say? It’s Brainiac.

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  • The Rev.

    I think I was in the minority, in that I find <b>Hawk the Slayer</b> an interminable bore, broken up only by amusement at Jack Palance and a couple sketchy "effects," and my exasperation with the particularly egregious "komic releef." I think more than one person compared it favorably to <a>Ator</b>, and again I guess I'm going against the grain, but I find that one more entertaining overall. But watching it with a group of fine folks helped, admittedly, as it usually does.

  • Hawk the Slayer was a blast. By no means a good movie, it was an entertaining one, better than a lot of the Fantasy Drek coming out in the Eighties.

    Small note: In the scene where Hawk picks up the Elf Crow, where Crow is confronted by a bowman and his confederate, I recognized the confederate but couldn't place the face. I looked it up and found out he was the theater owner in the Doctor Who episode Talons of Weng Chiang. So Hawk had that going for it

  • Gamera977

    I liked it but hey it's always more fun among a bunch of poo-flinging monkeys. If I were to name a favorite sword and sorcery movie it would be Albert Pyan's "The Sword and the Sorcerer.' Hey, it's got Lee Horsley as the womanizing slightly sleazy hero with a goofy tri-bladed sword. Richard Lynch as the evil king and Richard Moll as the demon wizard guy. Sheer goofy fun from beginning to end.

  • zombiewhacker

    I have the Rifftrax version of Hawk the Slayer. Mike, Kevin, and Bill make it infinitely more watchable.

  • The Rev.

    I also have that version, and as they often do, they did improve things, but it's not one I watch as often as I do, say, their riff of Samurai Cop or Attack of the Supermonsters.

  • The Sword and the Sorcerer has a special place in my heart, mainly because I owned the entire Coloring Book series.

  • Ken_Begg

    It's on Prime, I think.

  • Yeah it is. I really should watch it again