Cheesy Movie Friday: Krull (1983)

[Streeter]

Saw this as a kid...but can't really remember it and it is giving me the itch to watch Flash Gordon or Deathstalker.

Would throw Drsgonslayer and Excalibur with those as well.

 

[Archie Goodwin]

It's crazy how many movies I seen as a kid that I thought were just amazing. Then as I got older, well, obviously my taste changed here and there but I never forgot those early movies and what they meant to me back then.

Same. Especially Sword and the Sorcerer. Classic and cheesy AF watching as an adult.

 

[evansusmc2]

Krull was a damn good movie and still holds up today in my opinion.

 

[heavyarms21]

Welcome to cheesy movie Friday's. Every couple Fridays, I will pick a movie that I find...well...cheesy. Don't get offended if you loved the movie, being cheesy doesn't necessarily means it was bad....just...well....cheesy.

All cheese aside, lets get started shall we...

So Krull takes place in some far off galaxy...a couple galaxies away from Tatooines im assuming. It all begins as some mutated deathstar like ship slowly approaches a planet.....a planet called....Krull...

Apparently some creature or thing known simply as "The Beast" and his slayers invade Krull and start taking shit over.

Some fairy looking dude named Colwyn prepares to marry this princess to join their kingdoms and unleash hell on the invaders....unfortunately the slayers spoil the fun and kidnap the princess. Sounds mighty familiar doesnt it?

Well it get's better. The fairy is nursed back to health by some scruffy old dude who schools him on this ninja star like weapon that can be used to slay the beast.

To get the weapon he has to retrieve it from some mountain. He gets the mystical weapon

and begins his adventure to save Leia..errrr...Lyssa.

On his journey he meets a bunch of people which become a part of his welfare merry men.

Along the way they encounter a number of slayers,

Shelob,

changelings

and whores in woods. A young Liam Neeson joins his crew but is green and not the shit kicker he ends up becoming later in life.

Theres also the token clown who can transform himself into various animals.

At some point they also come across Cyclops. No...not him...

Him....

To cut to the chase, they have to speed up their journey and are told about magical Fire Mares which shoot fire out their hooves and can fly. Yup.

They rip it to the dark fortress and start to move in but are met by more stormtroopers...errrr, i mean slayers.

Most of them make it in safe thanks to the Cyclops who gets squished between the closing stone doors cause the merry men take their sweet time.

They fight their way through, some die, some make it and the hero finds his girl, battles and defeats the beast quite easily,

loses his stupid ninja star

but saves the galaxy.

This movie was like a mashup of lord of the rings, star wars, robin hood and et...et just for the flying horse scene. If you see it youll know.

I seen it when I was a kid and just recently rewatched it. I chuckled through most of it so I suppose it served its purpose.

If you want to watch a classic 80s cheesefest, be sure to check out Krull!!!!

May the glaive be with you!

I fucking love this move , I saw it so many times as a kid on HBO

 

[crabmeat]

I saw Krull at a drive-in double feature. The other movie was Yor.

Oh, boy...

 

[Panty Raider]

Would throw Drsgonslayer and Excalibur with those as well.

I saw Excalibur in the theater when I was 6. One of my favorite movies. I still watch it. I consider its fights the best/most realistic medieval battles on film.... none of that dance choreography shit.
And the part with the raven pecking that eyeball out and fucking little shit Mordred was cool.. oh and Arthur's dad banging that dude's wife...hot.

 

[90 50]

Welcome to cheesy movie Friday's. Every couple Fridays, I will pick a movie that I find...well...cheesy. Don't get offended if you loved the movie, being cheesy doesn't necessarily means it was bad....just...well....cheesy.

All cheese aside, lets get started shall we...

So Krull takes place in some far off galaxy...a couple galaxies away from Tatooines im assuming. It all begins as some mutated deathstar like ship slowly approaches a planet.....a planet called....Krull...

Apparently some creature or thing known simply as "The Beast" and his slayers invade Krull and start taking shit over.

Some fairy looking dude named Colwyn prepares to marry this princess to join their kingdoms and unleash hell on the invaders....unfortunately the slayers spoil the fun and kidnap the princess. Sounds mighty familiar doesnt it?

Well it get's better. The fairy is nursed back to health by some scruffy old dude who schools him on this ninja star like weapon that can be used to slay the beast.

To get the weapon he has to retrieve it from some mountain. He gets the mystical weapon

and begins his adventure to save Leia..errrr...Lyssa.

On his journey he meets a bunch of people which become a part of his welfare merry men.

Along the way they encounter a number of slayers,

Shelob,

changelings

and whores in woods. A young Liam Neeson joins his crew but is green and not the shit kicker he ends up becoming later in life.

Theres also the token clown who can transform himself into various animals.

At some point they also come across Cyclops. No...not him...

Him....

To cut to the chase, they have to speed up their journey and are told about magical Fire Mares which shoot fire out their hooves and can fly. Yup.

They rip it to the dark fortress and start to move in but are met by more stormtroopers...errrr, i mean slayers.

Most of them make it in safe thanks to the Cyclops who gets squished between the closing stone doors cause the merry men take their sweet time.

They fight their way through, some die, some make it and the hero finds his girl, battles and defeats the beast quite easily,

loses his stupid ninja star

but saves the galaxy.

This movie was like a mashup of lord of the rings, star wars, robin hood and et...et just for the flying horse scene. If you see it youll know.

I seen it when I was a kid and just recently rewatched it. I chuckled through most of it so I suppose it served its purpose.

If you want to watch a classic 80s cheesefest, be sure to check out Krull!!!!

May the glaive be with you!

I used to have it on vhs, I haven’t seen it in. Over. 20 years but as a kid it kicked ass.

where did you find it to watch it ?

 

[TrueBias]

Krull was a damn good movie and still holds up today in my opinion.

I agree and dont. The beast looks awesome but that whole background sucks.

The TS was hinting this is a ripoff but there were so many other details i love.

The beast himself.
The slayers.
The shit that comes out of the slayers heads and goes into the ground.
The best cyclops ive seen on tv.
And fuck you, its called a GLAIVE, and its awesome.

 

[90 50]

Can’t believe. No one has maid a Hodoor reference yet.

 

[Ezekiel 25:17]

I used to have it on vhs, I haven’t seen it in. Over. 20 years but as a kid it kicked ass.

where did you find it to watch it ?

I have this along with a ton load others on my external drive. I actually still have the vhs copy somewhere.

 

[Ezekiel 25:17]

I agree and dont. The beast looks awesome but that whole background sucks.

The TS was hinting this is a ripoff but there were so many other details i love.

The beast himself.
The slayers.
The shit that comes out of the slayers heads and goes into the ground.
The best cyclops ive seen on tv.
And fuck you, its called a GLAIVE, and its awesome.

In some ways it did certainly play off the popularity of Star Wars which came out 6 years earlier, but it was definitely better then most of the movies which patterned elements from it.

 

[Archie Goodwin]

I saw Excalibur in the theater when I was 6. One of my favorite movies. I still watch it. I consider its fights the best/most realistic medieval battles on film.... none of that dance choreography shit.
And the part with the raven pecking that eyeball out and fucking little shit Mordred was cool.. oh and Arthur's dad banging that dude's wife...hot.

Prime Helen Mirren

 

[Ezekiel 25:17]

Prime Helen Mirren

 

[Bacco]

These movies were pure gold

 

[Vil7]

This is the best youll get....

What about the whores in the woods mentioned in the opening post?

 

[JbModest]

Wow you spent a lot of time on the OP, TS.

 

[Ezekiel 25:17]

Wow you spent a lot of time on the OP, TS.

I had a lot of time to kill last night lol. I definitely need to amp my sex game up....

 

[Ezekiel 25:17]

What about the whores in the woods mentioned in the opening post?

Woodland whores arent exactly the cream of the crop. When youre that deep in the woods though, getting that deep into them doesnt seem so bad.

 

[Batjester]

I saw this when I was going through my The Master ninja phase, and it only exacerbated my need to own throwing stars.

Mine too.


There is a store here called Fleet Farm, think Walmart but geared towards farmers. Had to go in there a couple weeks ago and they have a full aisle of knives, but also had some swords, spears, and freaking ninja stars.

 

[HARRISON_3]

This film is a good representation of what I loved as a kid. Even back then I remember thinking the effects were bad. But I still loved it. 1983. I just watched Logan's Run (1976). Total Sci Fi Cheese. Like an elongated episode of Buck Rogers or Star Trek. This is my cup of tea. Thank you TS, good thread.

Logan’s Run was great.