This is a tale of death, blood and vendetta set in a mythical primitive world and wild age . A good sword and sorcery story dealing on bouncing Dar(Marc Singer, a Conan-Tarzan hybrid), a hunk hero who communicates with animals such as a puma, eagle, and a duo of sympathetic ferrets. Meanwhile he falls in love with a gorgeous,tempting slave-warrior(splendid beauty Tanya Roberts) and fights against nasty magician( hateful Rip Torn)and bewitching sorceress.
This amusing movie packs witchery, wizardly, necromancy, brutality, magnificent production values and lots of adventures and action. In the wake of Robert E. Howard's Conan (John Milius) and Conan the Destroyer(Richard Fleischer), it's a sort of comic-strip and one of the best from ¨Sword and Sorcery¨ genre . Thrills, action and adventures are brilliantly presented and edited to offer the maximum impact. Marc Singer is perfect cast as classic fantasy-hero. Glimmer and rousing cinematography by John Alcott, Stanley Kubrick's cameraman (Barry Lyndon). Spectacular and emotive musical score by Lee Holdridge. This entertaining film is well directed by Don Coscarelli(phantasm and followings) appointing the accent on the adventures and struggles.
It's followed by inferior sequels and TV series , as : 1) ¨Beastmaster 2 : Through the portal of time(1991)¨ by Sylvio Tabet(also trilogy's producer) with Kari Wuhrer, Sarah Douglas and Wing Hauser , where Dar tracks down an ominous tyrant throughout a dimensional portal to modern-day L.A. 2) ¨Beastmaster 3 : The eye of Braxus(1995)¨ by Gabrielle Beaumont with Casper Van Dien, David Warner and Leslie-Anne Down; where again Marc Singer is involved in a life-and-death fights with nasties . And 3) Television series (1999)starred by Daniel Goddard as Dar. Camp fun for ¨Sword and Witchery¨ genre fans.
This amusing movie packs witchery, wizardly, necromancy, brutality, magnificent production values and lots of adventures and action. In the wake of Robert E. Howard's Conan (John Milius) and Conan the Destroyer(Richard Fleischer), it's a sort of comic-strip and one of the best from ¨Sword and Sorcery¨ genre . Thrills, action and adventures are brilliantly presented and edited to offer the maximum impact. Marc Singer is perfect cast as classic fantasy-hero. Glimmer and rousing cinematography by John Alcott, Stanley Kubrick's cameraman (Barry Lyndon). Spectacular and emotive musical score by Lee Holdridge. This entertaining film is well directed by Don Coscarelli(phantasm and followings) appointing the accent on the adventures and struggles.
It's followed by inferior sequels and TV series , as : 1) ¨Beastmaster 2 : Through the portal of time(1991)¨ by Sylvio Tabet(also trilogy's producer) with Kari Wuhrer, Sarah Douglas and Wing Hauser , where Dar tracks down an ominous tyrant throughout a dimensional portal to modern-day L.A. 2) ¨Beastmaster 3 : The eye of Braxus(1995)¨ by Gabrielle Beaumont with Casper Van Dien, David Warner and Leslie-Anne Down; where again Marc Singer is involved in a life-and-death fights with nasties . And 3) Television series (1999)starred by Daniel Goddard as Dar. Camp fun for ¨Sword and Witchery¨ genre fans.