The Sword and the Sorcerer (1982)
Day five of #Junesploitation was the hardest choice for me so far, Magic, a really broad subject that takes so much into it, so I chose to go for an evil nemesis magic user to narrow it down a bit.
I was going to go with Conan the Barbarian from the same year as this but one of the things I decided to do with this challenge is have a bit of fun and only watch films I’ve never watched before.
Now sort of wishing I’d gone with Conan, this is another film where the script got the better of no one and the actors came from the apathetic school of acting.
Also trades description or what as it was so Sorcerer light that he may as well as not have been in it an it wouldn’t have made much difference to the plot.
Wooden acting, stilted fight scenes that sometimes went on for far too long, cardboard sets, and shoddy physical effects all gave this a really thrown together feel.
The story line outside of banished royalty feels so similar to Conan, especially the long, long introduction to Talon as an adult regaling us with all his exploits which sounded eerily similar to Conan’s that I’m sure they were writing a Conan film and couldn’t get the rights to the name so changed some of the plot points to cover it.
And the biggest weird part of the film for me is I thought Talon was the eldest heir to the throne and that Alana was his younger sister, eeew.
Overall another just perfect for my current streak in Junesploitation.
5.5
