A medieval reenactment troupe find it increasingly difficult to keep their family-like group together, with pressure from local law enforcement, interest from entertainment agents and a growing sense of delusion from their leader.
The military attempts to contain a manmade combat virus that causes death and permanent insanity in those infected, as it overtakes a small Pennsylvania town.
Director:
George A. Romero
Stars:
Lane Carroll,
Will MacMillan,
Harold Wayne Jones
A quadriplegic man has a trained monkey help him with his paralysis, until the little monkey begins to develop feelings, and rage, against its new master.
A young man, who believes himself to be a vampire, goes to live with his elderly and hostile cousin in a small Pennsylvania town where he tries to redeem his blood-craving urges.
Director:
George A. Romero
Stars:
John Amplas,
Lincoln Maazel,
Christine Forrest
On an island off the coast of North America, local residents simultaneously fight a zombie epidemic while hoping for a cure to return their un-dead relatives back to their human state.
Director:
George A. Romero
Stars:
Alan Van Sprang,
Kenneth Welsh,
Kathleen Munroe
Two horror tales based on short stories by Edgar Allan Poe directed by two famous horror directors, George A. Romero and Dario Argento. A greedy wife kills her husband, but not completely. A sleazy reporter adopts a strange black cat.
A travelling troupe of jousters and performers are slowly cracking under the pressure of hick cops, financial troubles and their failure to live up to their own ideals. The group's leader, King Billy, is increasingly unable to maintain his warrior's rule while the Black Knight is being tempted away to LA and stardom, as they all have to ask why they were here in the first place.Written by
David Carroll <davidc@atom.ansto.gov.au>
Larry Vaira: Appears as one of the biker extras at the Renaissance Faire. See more »
Goofs
The fog in the final joust changes between shots. See more »
Quotes
Alan:
My king. If you'll allow me, I will fight for you in defense of the crown. These others will challenge...
[chuckles emotionally]
Alan:
Shit, I can't talk like that. Morgan's agreed to fight, and if you promise to sit on your ass and stay out of the way, there's still some of us that'll fight for you.
Billy:
[through his tears]
All right.
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But even when i watch it and say -Yup, too long!- i can never decide what to cut.
I love to put this on for people who have never seen it and have no idea of what they're in for -- the careful arrangements, compositions and camerawork of the opening sequence, as the King and his Queen tarry a while in the (probably enchanted) woods, in the lovely golden sunlight, then dress themselves, he girds on his armor, he mounts his mighty steed (shot composed so that we see only his torso, the steed being out of shot at the bottom), she mounts side-saddle on the pillion...
And BARRROOOOMMMM!!!! that huge bike roars into life and the camera pulls back as we see them ride away...
It's almost as much of a jolt as the narrow-to-wide cut at the beginning of "Road Warrior"... and just as important to see (if possible) on a big screen the first time.
Kings and queens, knights and heroes; a wizard... even a faithful Indian companion; it's all here.
Action, adventure, humor, treachery and heroism -- all here.
Love and hate, jealousy and heart break? Present and accounted for.
Bad guys get theirs, hero vindicated in the end? What do you think?
And incredible, incredible action work. This film equals or even surpasses "The Road Warrior" in its motorcycle work. I'm still not sure if the final stunt is faked or whether they actually did it -- either way, my hat's off to the people who put it on the screen.
Ed Harris, as King Billy, whose vision forms the kingdom, whose unhealing wound signifies danger ahead, and whose malaise may well doom the kingdom, is brilliant.
Brother Blue as Merlin is indescribable -- but in a good context.
Patricia Tallman, who has gone on to a dual career as actress and stuntwoman (recurring on "Babylon 5" as telepath "Lita" and doing stunts in the film "Long Kiss Goodnight") has what i believe is her first screen appearance, playing a townie girl who is temporarily admitted into the kingdom's magic, but must eventually go home if only to tell the world what she's seen, is good...
Tom Savini as Morgan, the villain (hiss, boo) is Jes' Fine...
I have always described this film as the one film i know of that gets the closest to the truths that underlie the King Arthur legends...
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Sometimes it's too long.
Sometimes it's just right.
But even when i watch it and say -Yup, too long!- i can never decide what to cut.
I love to put this on for people who have never seen it and have no idea of what they're in for -- the careful arrangements, compositions and camerawork of the opening sequence, as the King and his Queen tarry a while in the (probably enchanted) woods, in the lovely golden sunlight, then dress themselves, he girds on his armor, he mounts his mighty steed (shot composed so that we see only his torso, the steed being out of shot at the bottom), she mounts side-saddle on the pillion...
And BARRROOOOMMMM!!!! that huge bike roars into life and the camera pulls back as we see them ride away...
It's almost as much of a jolt as the narrow-to-wide cut at the beginning of "Road Warrior"... and just as important to see (if possible) on a big screen the first time.
Kings and queens, knights and heroes; a wizard... even a faithful Indian companion; it's all here.
Action, adventure, humor, treachery and heroism -- all here.
Love and hate, jealousy and heart break? Present and accounted for.
Bad guys get theirs, hero vindicated in the end? What do you think?
And incredible, incredible action work. This film equals or even surpasses "The Road Warrior" in its motorcycle work. I'm still not sure if the final stunt is faked or whether they actually did it -- either way, my hat's off to the people who put it on the screen.
Ed Harris, as King Billy, whose vision forms the kingdom, whose unhealing wound signifies danger ahead, and whose malaise may well doom the kingdom, is brilliant.
Brother Blue as Merlin is indescribable -- but in a good context.
Patricia Tallman, who has gone on to a dual career as actress and stuntwoman (recurring on "Babylon 5" as telepath "Lita" and doing stunts in the film "Long Kiss Goodnight") has what i believe is her first screen appearance, playing a townie girl who is temporarily admitted into the kingdom's magic, but must eventually go home if only to tell the world what she's seen, is good...
Tom Savini as Morgan, the villain (hiss, boo) is Jes' Fine...
I have always described this film as the one film i know of that gets the closest to the truths that underlie the King Arthur legends...