With Deathstalker II, we get the last Sword & Sorcery movie that Roger Corman produced in Argentina, but unlike the first Deathstalker, which had a darker, more serious tone, this film, directed by the always fun Jim Wynorski, has a decidedly more comic sensibility.
Tag: Fantasy
Deathstalker (1983) – Review
With the success of the fantasy film Sorceress it’s no surprise that Roger Corman would strike while the irons were hot and begin to churn out more of the barbarian/fantasy genre films. This time New World Pictures heads to Argentina where you could find skilled labour at low-budget prices and even better when you could…
NOS4A2: Joe Hill – Book Review
A modern vampire story for a modern era, NOS4A2 is engaging, fun, and at least a little scary at times.
A Review of Two Tales – Horns
Horns, both the novel by Joe Hill and the movie based on that same novel, follow the story of Ignatius Perrish in the aftermath of the murder of his longtime girlfriend Merrin Williams.
John Carter: From Book to Screen
The 2012 movie John Carter was based on the Edgar Rice Burroughs novel A Princess of Mars, and is most notable for its disastrous box office performance rather than the actual quality of the film. and I think most can agree that the biggest stumbling block the movie had was that it was saddled with…