The Beastmaster (1982)

Review: The Beastmaster (1982)

Director: Don Coscarelli

Cast: Marc Singer, Tanya Roberts, Rip Torn, John Amos, Rod Loomis,

Marc Singer
Marc Singer
Tanya Roberts
Tanya Roberts
Rip Torn
Rip Torn
John Amos
John Amos
Rod Loomis
Rod Loomis

Plot: Dar, is the son of a king, who is hunted by a priest after his birth and grows up in another family. When he becomes a grown man his new father is murdered by savages and he discovers that he has the ability to communicate with the animals, which leads him on his quest for revenge against his father's killers.

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2020: Year-End Thoughts

2020: Year-End Thoughts

It’s that time of year again. How to decide what’s “best” out of the six-hundred-plus movies I watched in 2020? It’s an impossible task, so here’s a fairly random selection of things which may not be best, but […]

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<i>John Dies At the End</i> &#8230; and that&#8217;s not a bad thing

John Dies At the End … and that’s not a bad thing

I’ve been a fan of Don Coscarelli’s work since the first time I saw Phantasm in 1979. Made when he was just 24, that film followed two “family” features – Jim, The World’s Greatest (1976, co-directed with Craig Mitchell), […]

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