Author
|
Topic: Hawk the Slayer, who put it out on Super 8?
|
|
|
|
|
Osi Osgood
Film God
Posts: 10204
From: Mountian Home, ID.
Registered: Jul 2005
|
posted April 10, 2008 10:19 AM
This is a curious film. Now, I've never actually seen it, but it sounds like the mindless kind of stuff I'd enjoy.
It seems somewhat rare these days, as I don't think I've seen any copies on even the Derann used lists; at least not for a long time, (or since I can remember.)
Though, there must have been a number of prints, if it was the popular pick (for Derann)
-------------------- "All these moments will be lost in time, just like ... tears, in the rain. "
| IP: Logged
|
|
|
Barry Attwood
Phenomenal Film Handler
Posts: 1411
From: Enfield, U.K.
Registered: Aug 2003
|
posted April 12, 2008 03:04 AM
I must come to the defence of this lovely cheesey little film, it was made on a shoestring (if you look carefully in some scenes you can see them), they cast the scene chewing Jack Palance as the baddie (his OTT performance is amazingingly bad, just what the role called for), and a host of British character actors to boot. The lead was that well known U.S. actor John Terry (now does anyone else know a film he has been in since) as the lead, and amazingly inventive special effects (they had to be on the budget for his film), but let's not forget the script, which seemed to be turned out by 2 left handed monkies. Now after my thoughts on this film you might think I really hated it, but it's the total reverse, as this is one of those films, where it's SO BAD it's really GOOD as you know that you're not watching the best film ever made (far from it), but it does exactly what it says on the tin, it entertains, perhaps not exactly as the producer and director intended, but it ambles along nicely, and who can forget the late Bernard Bresslaw as the 'Giant'.
Oh and by the way, I am a proud owner of a F/L 8mm print too!
| IP: Logged
|
|
|
|
Osi Osgood
Film God
Posts: 10204
From: Mountian Home, ID.
Registered: Jul 2005
|
posted April 12, 2008 01:28 PM
Mmmm, the delicious cheese factor!
... and, at 30 (or so) minutes, (as that is what I'm assuming the running time of this 600ft is, eh Rik?), if you watch this whole thing, and find that it's a waste of time, your not shaking your head and saying, "Egad! 90 minutes of my life blown all to heck!", no, you only blew 30 minutes, a great savings of blown time!
-------------------- "All these moments will be lost in time, just like ... tears, in the rain. "
| IP: Logged
|
|
|