JTB Italian Sword and Sorcery Movies (Action/Fantasy)
Back in the early 80's there was a Sword-and Sorcery craze with the release of John Boorman's Excalibur and John Milius's Conan the Barbarian.
Genre directors like Lucio Fulci, Umberto Lenzi, Ruggero Deodato, Joe D'Amato, Alfonso Brescia and Franco Prosperi among others quickly responded with a string of sword and sorcery movies.
The term Sword and Sorcery (S&S) was coined in 1961 by the British author Michael Moorcock (The Land That Time Forgot and Heavy Metal), who published a letter in the fanzine Amra, demanding a name for the sort of Fantasy-Adventure story written by Robert E. Howard (Conan the Barbarian and Solomon Kane).
Not to be confused with the Peplum film (Pepla in plural), also known as Sword-and-Sandal, is a genre of largely Italian-made historical or Biblical epics (costume dramas) that dominated the Italian film industry from 1958 to 1965, eventually being replaced in 1965 by Eurospy movies and Spaghetti Westerns.
Genre directors like Lucio Fulci, Umberto Lenzi, Ruggero Deodato, Joe D'Amato, Alfonso Brescia and Franco Prosperi among others quickly responded with a string of sword and sorcery movies.
The term Sword and Sorcery (S&S) was coined in 1961 by the British author Michael Moorcock (The Land That Time Forgot and Heavy Metal), who published a letter in the fanzine Amra, demanding a name for the sort of Fantasy-Adventure story written by Robert E. Howard (Conan the Barbarian and Solomon Kane).
Not to be confused with the Peplum film (Pepla in plural), also known as Sword-and-Sandal, is a genre of largely Italian-made historical or Biblical epics (costume dramas) that dominated the Italian film industry from 1958 to 1965, eventually being replaced in 1965 by Eurospy movies and Spaghetti Westerns.
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