Il mondo di Yor (1983)

Director:

Antonio Margheriti

Writers:

Ray Collins (graphic novel "Henga, el cazador") &
Juan Zanotto (graphic novel "Henga, el cazador") ...

Release Date:

19 August 1983 (USA)

Genre:

Sci-Fi

Tagline:

He was a powerful warrior from the future, trapped in a prehistoric land, battling for the survival of his people.

Plot:

Yor, an extremely blond prehistoric warrior, comes to question his origins, particularly with regard to a mysterious medallion he wears...

Plot Keywords:

Medallion | Dinosaur | Hall Of Mirrors | Past Is Future | Death

Awards:

3 nominations

Cast

Reb Brown	...	Yor
Corinne Clery	...	Ka-Laa (as Corinne Cléry)
Luciano Pigozzi	...	Pag (as Alan Collins)
Carole André	...	Ena
John Steiner	...	Overlord
Ayshe Gul	...	Rea of the Sand-People
Aytekin Akkaya	...	Leader of the Sand-People
Marina Rocchi	...	Tarita
Sergio Nicolai	...	Kay
Ludovico Della Jojo
Adrian Akdemir
Herent Akdemir
Ali Selgur
Zeynep Selgur
Henk Akin

Also Known As:

Yor (Turkey: Turkish title) (UK) (video title)
The World of Yor (International: English title) (literal title)
Yor, le chasseur du futur (France)
Yor, the Hunter from the Future (USA)

Runtime:

USA:88 min | 98 min (director's cut)

Country:

Italy | France | Turkey

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Iceland:16 | Australia:PG | UK:15 | USA:PG

Filming Locations:

Turkey

Company:

Columbia Pictures

Trivia:

The costumes worn by Overlord and his guards were left over from L'umanoide (1979) which director Antonio Margheriti did the special effects for.

Goofs:

Continuity: The character of Ena has a mole on one cheek. For a couple shots in the cave, the mole disappears.

Quotes:

Ka-Laa: Why is Yor different from other men?

Movie Connections:

Referenced in An Enraged New World (2002)

Unintentional Comedy

Yor, Hunter From the Future easily falls into the "it's so bad it's good" category. I have never laughed so hard in my life at a film. No comedy has every produced the side-splitting, tear inducing laughter that Yor has. It's too bad this film was not intended as a comedy, but rather as a science fiction/ fantasy epic.

This movie just screams cheese. It features a story riddled with plot holes (caveman on a quest to find himself runs into a superior race of beings that want to kill him... but don't explain why); randomly occuring events (random laser fire demolishing cavemen villages); criminally bad dialogue; an 80's cheese rock score; horrendous special effects (lasers firing out of weapons at obviously wrong angles); and possibly one of the most ineffective movie villains of all time: THE OVERLORD.

It's so bad it has to be seen to be believed.