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Among its many dubious distinctions, Hawk the Slayer is the only sword-and-sorcery movie to feature Silly-String® as a medieval weapon! This splendidly wretched British fantasy also boas...( read more 
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MCT:June 12, 2008I just finished watching this after not seeing it for years and years and years. And it did not fail to disappoint. I netflixed this one looking for some bad '80's sword and sorcery nostalgia, and it delivered in spades.
The acting has more wood in it than a lumber yard. The sets make old skool Dr Who sets look avant garde. And the special effects? Well kudos for using Silly String and glowing ping-pong balls!
Needless to say I giggled furiously during the entire movie and enjoyed every bad moment of it. -
MCT:June 3, 2008
"Hawk the Slayer" is the kind of heroic fantasy film I would only watch if it were the last heroic fantasy film on Earth. And back in 1981, this is about what it was. I couldn?t believe my luck when I discovered that it was showing on a boat I took across the North Sea back in my mid-teens. I had seen some of the advance photos in a magazine, and I felt like Samwise Gamgee going to see the Elves, or rather the Elf, as I knew there was one in it, and he had pointed ears and a bow. Imagine that!
Well, even at fourteen, I could tell this one was really bad. The dwarf is just a short guy, the giant just a tall guy, the Elf speaks like the ship?s computer from the original Star Trek (what were they thinking ?) and "the monster" is just a four-inch muppet on a stick. The whole mess looks as if a team of sitcom producers for British television had suddenly decided to ride on the Tolkien wave by producing a medieval version of the Seven Samurai on a £2.50 budget.
This said, I did enjoy watching the film again a year or two ago, partly for its nostalgic power (like gazing at the lousy illustrations for some amateurish RPG you played as a teen), partly for its camp value (the disco score and the laser beams that go pew-pew), and partly for some genuine qualities like the weapon designs, the British accents and the Christian imagery and themes. -
MCT:April 8, 2008Looks dumber than a bag of hammers. Jack Palance played the same damned character in every movie he made: a grumpy overacting lame-o.
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MCT:January 13, 2008This is one of my all time favorites. I love everything about it. Jack Palance being one of them, the magical and the storyline.
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MCT:December 30, 2007Fantasy land and lore galore! One of those hidden gems in movie history, well ok, maybe not a gem, but at least it's a spec of dust. I saw this movie back when I didn't care about movies, but what it was about, the fantasy the magic, but now, it's a flop.
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MCT:November 2, 2007
Now This is the Kind of Total GARBAGe everyone can appreciate.
Back when Fantasy film got NO budgets,.. but tried anywho.
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MCT:October 15, 2007Incredibly daft and infantile British Fantasy rip off with a cheerful Europop style soundtrack that will drive you absolutely insane.
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MCT:September 21, 2007I would KILL to have this on DVD!! well alright maybe not kill but I would inflict papercuts like nobody's business..
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MCT:September 4, 2007
been my favourite film since i was young. the good versus the bad plot, you always know who's going to win but watch it anyway. Also has some fantasy in which I enjoy
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MCT:July 19, 2007I can't even describe how goo/bad this movie is...thank you Spaced for opening my eyes to this piece of cinematic rubbish...oh Jack Palance how low have you sunk?
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MCT:March 23, 2007
One of my favourites, love the fantasy side of the film and battle between good and evil with the sibling rivalary too.
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MCT:March 8, 2007
It was a great film back in the day...
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MCT:February 1, 2007
Not a bad little fantasy flick...I prefer this to LadyHawke...and Palance is always a joy...whatever happened to John Terry...he was almost as good a Lewis Collins! Terry Marcel needs to put the boot in his actors abit as they seemed really dry....should be remade with Lance Henrikson as the Villain!
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MCT:January 19, 2007
OK some of this rating is just to tick people off. :-)
I would like to point out though that this movie is an adaptation of the Seven Samurai, a classic movie.
That said everything else is just tremendously bad. You can see the ropes on the "mindsword", Jack Palance's performance as the evil Voltan is hovering slightly above the peak of Everest (though to be fair to Mr Palance he usually starts somewhere around there), while the actor who plays the elf dials so far back on his acting he makes the Star Trek Vulcan's (from which he obviously stole his idea for his character) look like weeping emotional crybabies. Also look for Jack's dad from "Lost" as the titular Hawk.
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MCT:January 16, 2007A really, really awful movie, but somehow it remains fun. The acting is simply terrible. Especially amusingly bad is the acting from the elf character. Apparently elves in this fantasy world are wooden as Star Trek Vulcans. The score, like so many 80s fantasy movies, is an off-putting disco track. Still, you haven't seen it all until you've seen it.
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MCT:October 9, 2006
Pure B-movie cheese, and all the better for it. People who absolutely hate this need to lighten up and look a it from the perspective of being a comedy, due to the fact that everyone in it is taking the whole thing seriously plus the 'special effects'. It's all so naive and innocent I can't fail to like it and defend it to the last.
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MCT:September 28, 2006
This movie is so bad that it somehow winds up being entertaining. You won't believe they got Jack Palance to star in this film. If you ever sat down and played a game of Dungeons & Dragons, you simply must see this film.
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MCT:July 6, 2006
If you like cheesy fanatsy, this is the movie for you. 40 Year Old Virgin and 16 Year Old Pothead give this Two Thumbs Up!! Cheesy plot, cheap FX, but worth the time.
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