In the peaceful kingdom of Axeholme lives the teenage boy Simon, son of Wulfrik, the king's court wizard. The evil sorcerer Shurka starts a coup d'état, aided by the King's wife, killing the king, and imprisoning the princess, Aura. Before he is slain by Shurka, Wulfrik teleports Simon and his friend Gulfax to safety and gifts him his powerful magic ring. However, unbeknownst to all, Simon loses the ring during his escape.
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The film re-used a large amount of stock footage from Sorceress (1982) and Deathstalker (1983). Ed Naha, who wrote the script, later recalled:
I don't think this movie was so much shot as it was beaten to death. When they whittled it down to what was useful from the footage, it only ran 58 minutes. Now [producer] Roger [Corman] had done a lot of sword-and-sorcery films, and so he told a couple of the editors to pull all they could from them and edit that footage in. So now the finished movie has a 15 or 20-minute prologue that has nothing to do with rest of the film!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wizards_of_the_Lost_Kingdom
3.0 out of 10 on imdb! 21% on rottentomatoes! And yet, Wizards of the Lost Kingdom (1985) is the movie for this Sunday's "monsterdon" watch party over on Mastodon, our fediverse sibling!
- Just start watching that movie this Sunday, November 8 at 9pm ET / 8pm CT / 6pm PT which is 1am Monday UTC
- and follow #monsterdon over on mastodon for live text commentary. For example, you can follow that hashtag here: https://mastodon.social/tags/monsterdon
- I usually open two web browser windows side-by-side on a computer. But you could follow the mastodon commentary on a phone app while watching the movie on TV or something.
How to watch the movie:
- for info on how to block ads, see: https://ohai.social/@klu9/115245207831850566
- tubi: https://tubitv.com/movies/466918/wizards-of-the-lost-kingdom
- youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Usr4VpMQjQ0
- it's usually streamed on https://miru.miyaku.media/ at watch party time
- if you want to pay and/or watch ads, look here: https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/wizards-of-the-lost-kingdom
- for trigger warnings see: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/13300
