@@donwhiteley3293 sorry to rain on your parade. Not a He-Man figure... something closer to a Ken doll. While Yor came out in 83, and the toyline in late 82.. this film was made before the figures released... and clearly not a HeMan figure even just by the eye test. Wouldve been meta amazing in retrospect had it been tho... but amazing nonetheless fhat the stunt team consists of plastic figures.
I love this channel so much. Also Yor is one of the most awesome, random, and crazy fantasy films ever made. It feels like they got some 8 year old to make a list of crazy shit the kid thought was cool, and then they threw it in a blender. Yor is the result of that.
Thanks for the double feature review. It was a fun change of pace. Maybe a film with Reb Brown as the hero and Oliver Reed as the villain would give us the best of both worlds.
"Yor" is based on an argentinian comic book called "Henga", that was succesful enough in Italy to get made into a movie. They changed the title but the story and the look follow the comic pretty closely.
@@paulforder591 I don´t know if it was translated to english, but you may always stick to the spanish or the italian version. Henga was created by Diego Navarro and Juan Zanotto and published by Skorpio, in case you want try to find it.
While I can see the virtues of Yor, for me Oliver Reed was one of the most watchable people on the planet--and didn't he know it--so I would have to choose Gor. Even the way Reed rolls his eyes in his death scene is unlike anything anyone else would do. As a suggestion for another comparison review, you might look at The Maze, from 1953, an offbeat Gothic melodrama directed and designed by William Cameron Menzies, and The Mask, a kind of weird psycho-thriller from 1961 - - both are 3-D movies with odd premises (very), and both use 3-D in crazily inventive ways. Plus The Mask is considered one of the 1st Canadian horror films, while the plot of The Maze, and its final reveal, has to be seen to be believed.
I read the Gor novels. They are science fantasy novels playing on another world where you go riding on birds, hobnob with insectoid aliens and there is magic, sort of. Actually all magic is tech from the insectoid aliens, but the inhabitants dont know that. Apart from the rampant sadomasochism regarding females and their role in society, it is a jolly good read. I did not know there was ever a dramatization in a movie. I would have thought that impossible due to budget (production costs like LotR).
I have not read the Gor novels, but ii have seen both films and gotten the impression that the books and films owe royalties to Edgar Rice Burroughs' "John Carter of Mars" books.
The reference to Norman is a clever play, the Gor novels were written by John Norman. Not that the films follow the novels particularly well but still.
I like Creature better myself. I think it had a few genuinely scary scenes without relying TOO much on gore/sex. I do admit that could be because I was fairly young when I first watched it and was much older when I first saw Galaxy of Terror.
Andrew Parsons That's fair. I'd lean towards Galaxy of Terror just for being a bit more imaginative and strange, but Creature's a solid creeper and Klaus Kinski is having so much fun in it!
nothing compares to Yor! awesome theme song, great dialogue, and the Pag swinging effects! Yor is a repeat viewing. Stand alone movie or the miniseries! The great Reb Brown too! Gor I seen once but not sure if it was a sequel or first one but I will watch again.
My wife just got me Yor on Blu-ray for my birthday. She noticed Big McLargehuge on the cover and said the synopsis sounded terrible... so she knew I'd like it.
BRILLIANT! One of your best ones yet! YOR is shoestring compared to GOR, because even though the latter was a Cannon (cheap, fun trash) film, YOR was edited down from an Italian T.V. mini-series. Nevertheless, YOR is just as dumb and cheesy as GOR, but far goofier and much more optimistic! BUT...GOR got a (terrible) sequel!
Can't believe I only just discovered your channel!! Brilliant! I gotta recommend an Australian film, so 1982s "Turkey shoot" it is. Can't wait to see more!
I just discovered this channel. I enjoy movies from a bygone area. Your revues are... interesting. The ideas and opinions are unique, not snarky but original.
I can't wait to watch both, but the real question is what craft beer should I select while watching them, something with a Y for Yor and something with a G for Gor
@@srstriker6420 That was the Matt Salinger version - the Reb Cap faced greater villains, like a slumming-it Christopher Lee with an old age gas! Cap vs Drac: what's not to love?
The only commercial for 'Yor, the Hunter From the Future' that I recall never showed any spaceships or robots. He smacked a burning tree with his stone axe, and there was some talk.
When you said "Gor has stars," my first thought was "Hey, Reb Brown was in Uncommon Valor, and Yor has Anthony Wyngarde (although apparently dubbed)." I actually thought about seening Yor when it came out; guess I dodged that bullet. Comparative "bad" movies? How about The Earth Dies Screaming vs. Target: Earth?
_The Incredible 2-Headed Transplant_ [1971 -- Cast includes Bruce Dern (frequently cast as a deranged character), Casey Kasem (i.e., Shaggy), and Pat Priest (i.e. Marilyn Munster), in a film about a truly insane scientist (Dern) who decides it's a good idea to graft the head of a psychopathic killer onto a mentally-impaired, gentle giant farmhand's body, after which homicidal fun ensues] versus _The Thing with Two Heads_ [1972 -- Cast includes Ray Milland (former Oscar winner) and Rosey Grier (former NFL All-Pro defensive lineman), in a film about a wheelchair-bound white racist doctor (Milland) seeking a transplant of his head onto a healthy body, only to awaken and discover it's been attached to that a black convict (Grier), after which campy racial jokes ensue].
I saw Yor once a long time ago and it was a pretty good movie but I've never seen or heard of Gor. I've seen Masters of the Universe, Krull, Kull and Beastmaster and they were really good movies
Gotta love Oliver Reed's reading of that line: Reed: "One ........ hundred ................ men ................................ women ............................................ and ........................................................................" Me: "...Children!!! Yeah, we get it! Just say it and finish the fricking line awready!! Children!! Children!!"
I'm pretty sure Gor is based on the book Tarnsmen of Gor, a knockoff of the John Carter series. If I recall there was some controversy over the author having a thing for bondage and it came out in his work.
I couldn't get through Gor but found Yor quite entertaining. It's simply more creative, silly, colourful, and as you said, the title character is much more likeable.
And to think Yor was suppose to be a 4 part mini series with 50 minute episodes. However it actually has score on Rotten Tomato with 17% and 46% where as Gor doesn't have any tomato percentage and a 2% audience score.
"They worship me as a divine goddess" - as opposed to a non-divine goddess? And "Take me with you, stranger" must've been a deliberate joke... surely?!??
Yor was and still is awesome. I had a serious crush on Corrine Cleary and Carole Andre. Reb Brown is a legend. Gor is interesting. Talena is the lovely Rebecca Ferratti. Gor is better made but Yor is awesome.
You know, Reb actually would've made a good He-Man; he'd have been comfortable being completely Filmation accurate, even down to the simple way of talking and wouldn't have blinked an eye at having to wear a page boy haircut while fighting a skull faced blue muscleman in loincloth.
The two films I would love to see you compare side by side are Dor (1985) about a guy who gets locked out of his house by his wife for coming home late and drunk and Snor (1986) the sequel in which the drunken guy sleeps it off in the bushes behind the house.
Yor also has the better soundtrack. The music in it is so damn 80's that you'll want to just want to perm that hair all big and wear neon clothes all over again! Also, with the GOR books, the main character was not a college professor. He was just a generic "Warrior". In the movie, they decided that people wouldn't understand a fantasy movie (because the main character in GOR is so damn complex a concept), so they decided that instead of using the character from the books as the hero, to have the hero be some idiot from OUR world. It would be like George Lucas deciding that 80's audiences wouldn't understand the concept of Luke Skywalker, and then changing things so that Keanu Reeves as "Ted from "Bill and Ted", gets teleported into the movie to fill the spot of the missing Luke Skywalker.
@@skylx0812 Back then, they would use an entire damn can of hair spray on their heads along with the mousse. Women's hair back then would go up like fireworks if they got near an open flame.
As much as celebrity appearances in schlock make me feel like Sideshow Bob when he heard Vanessa Redgrave in a low-brow Fox comedy, I am consoled that this schlock isn't that level of shit. Plus, they chew scenery as if they were coming off hunger strikes.
GOR is supposed to be a combination of Conan the Barbarian sword & sorcery, and Science Fiction/Fantasy. Another example of this crossover would be Warrior & the Sorceress from 1984! Robin, why not do a review of that film, and SORCERESS ?- - Both movies have pornographic exploitation, both are sword & sandal non-epics, both are sleazy low budget flicks!
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Oliver Reed: So, what’s my character like?
Filmmakers: We couldn’t find Brian Blessed. Do that.
That’s no Stegosaurus. You’ve tried the rest, now Triceratops!
...you bet jurassic park
The "Yor the Warrior" theme played to the hang glider scene swung it for me-
The same theme at the Pag trampeze scene was just as classic
"How did this guy not play He-Man?" This is a question for the ages.
And when he Gorilla - Pressed that robot! Where's his WWF/WWE contract !!👍👍💪💪💪💪💪💪😎🏋️♂️
Technically, He-Man played him (sort of). In the rope swinging scene near the end of the movie a He-Man action figure is used as Yor's stunt double.
@@donwhiteley3293 sorry to rain on your parade. Not a He-Man figure... something closer to a Ken doll. While Yor came out in 83, and the toyline in late 82.. this film was made before the figures released... and clearly not a HeMan figure even just by the eye test. Wouldve been meta amazing in retrospect had it been tho... but amazing nonetheless fhat the stunt team consists of plastic figures.
I love this channel so much.
Also Yor is one of the most awesome, random, and crazy fantasy films ever made. It feels like they got some 8 year old to make a list of crazy shit the kid thought was cool, and then they threw it in a blender. Yor is the result of that.
But.
But.
But....
George Lucas did that for the SW prequels. :/
@@skylx0812 good point.
@@skylx0812 Come to think of it, he pretty much did that for the original trilogy, as well.
Totally agree. That is why I loved it as a kid.
So was Gor, but not as much sort of in a way.
Thanks for the double feature review. It was a fun change of pace. Maybe a film with Reb Brown as the hero and Oliver Reed as the villain would give us the best of both worlds.
"Yor" is based on an argentinian comic book called "Henga", that was succesful enough in Italy to get made into a movie. They changed the title but the story and the look follow the comic pretty closely.
Its a decently made movie with great music
So "Henga" is the basis for Yor. Has the comic been translated into English? 😆🇬🇧🐨
@@paulforder591 I don´t know if it was translated to english, but you may always stick to the spanish or the italian version. Henga was created by Diego Navarro and Juan Zanotto and published by Skorpio, in case you want try to find it.
"You'll command a world of puppets! Is that your goal in life?!"
"...yes."
Well, alright, then.
Apparently, Yor was filmed as a TV series in Italy and then cut down to film length for a theatrical release.
While I can see the virtues of Yor, for me Oliver Reed was one of the most watchable people on the planet--and didn't he know it--so I would have to choose Gor. Even the way Reed rolls his eyes in his death scene is unlike anything anyone else would do.
As a suggestion for another comparison review, you might look at The Maze, from 1953, an offbeat Gothic melodrama directed and designed by William Cameron Menzies, and The Mask, a kind of weird psycho-thriller from 1961 - - both are 3-D movies with odd premises (very), and both use 3-D in crazily inventive ways. Plus The Mask is considered one of the 1st Canadian horror films, while the plot of The Maze, and its final reveal, has to be seen to be believed.
Oliver Reed is great, but without a shirt, NOT watchable.
Reb Brown, also starred as Captain America in two television movies from the 1980's.
Wait wait, is it Rebruary already?!
As soon as I read the title of this video, I knew the winner.
There is only one Reb "Yaaaaaaah" Brown !
I read the Gor novels. They are science fantasy novels playing on another world where you go riding on birds, hobnob with insectoid aliens and there is magic, sort of. Actually all magic is tech from the insectoid aliens, but the inhabitants dont know that. Apart from the rampant sadomasochism regarding females and their role in society, it is a jolly good read. I did not know there was ever a dramatization in a movie. I would have thought that impossible due to budget (production costs like LotR).
I have not read the Gor novels, but ii have seen both films and gotten the impression that the books and films owe royalties to Edgar Rice Burroughs' "John Carter of Mars" books.
The fact you referenced Mystery Science Theatre 3000 makes me enjoy your channel even more.
I still think it's a shame MST3k never riffed on Yor. But hey, at least we got Ator in "The Cave Dwellers." Hehehe
The reference to Norman is a clever play, the Gor novels were written by John Norman.
Not that the films follow the novels particularly well but still.
We’re going to need a lot more hemp before we’re through
Creature vs. Galaxy of Terror: battle of the low-budget Alien knock-offs.
One has Klaus Kinski but the other has Robert Englund AND Sid Haig!
Damn, that would be a tough choice. My vote would be Galaxy only because of the worm-rape scene.
I like Creature better myself. I think it had a few genuinely scary scenes without relying TOO much on gore/sex. I do admit that could be because I was fairly young when I first watched it and was much older when I first saw Galaxy of Terror.
What about "Forbidden World"!?
Andrew Parsons That's fair. I'd lean towards Galaxy of Terror just for being a bit more imaginative and strange, but Creature's a solid creeper and Klaus Kinski is having so much fun in it!
Deep Star Six and Leviathan from 1989
Mot Chraighe or she wolf of London and werewolf woman in 1976
nothing compares to Yor! awesome theme song, great dialogue, and the Pag swinging effects! Yor is a repeat viewing. Stand alone movie or the miniseries! The great Reb Brown too! Gor I seen once but not sure if it was a sequel or first one but I will watch again.
I love how Jack Palance would happily appear in any old bollocks.
Cover "Phase IV" vs "Empire Of The Ants". Or "Night Of The Lepus" vs "The Killer Shrews".
Land of the lost vs. the Lost Continent - either one ' Michael Rennie or the one with the Joker'
My wife just got me Yor on Blu-ray for my birthday. She noticed Big McLargehuge on the cover and said the synopsis sounded terrible... so she knew I'd like it.
I love your channel and watch it daily! Your reviews are honest and very funny!👍
BRILLIANT! One of your best ones yet! YOR is shoestring compared to GOR, because even though the latter was a Cannon (cheap, fun trash) film, YOR was edited down from an Italian T.V. mini-series. Nevertheless, YOR is just as dumb and cheesy as GOR, but far goofier and much more optimistic! BUT...GOR got a (terrible) sequel!
Can't believe I only just discovered your channel!! Brilliant! I gotta recommend an Australian film, so 1982s "Turkey shoot" it is. Can't wait to see more!
Welcome. We've been hidden in a dark corner of TH-cam waiting for you.... come closer... closer...
@@DarkCornersReviews closer? For sure!
@@adamdavies1068 BOO!
@@DarkCornersReviews haha. He thrusts his fist against the post, and still insists he sees the ghost.
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I'm watching your uploads from the oldest backwards! Just watched one from 4 years ago starring the guy who was jaws! That was ace! Real funny!
Eeeegah! Dig real deep and you will find reviews hidden on an old channel.
I just discovered this channel. I enjoy movies from a bygone area. Your revues are... interesting. The ideas and opinions are unique, not snarky but original.
Ollie Reed to his agent: "so the cheque cleared? Alright, mate, when's the flight?"
The Gor movie lacked the all-important "WELCOME TO A WORLD CALLED GOR *whipcrack*"
Pulse 'Yor: Hunter of the Future' has such a cool theme song.
Definitely need to do more of these - lots of scope - Hammer’s Horror of Dracula and Curse of Frankenstein is a quality one that springs to mind.
Great 2 see your subs are increasing so quickly,two thousand more since last week! Brilliant
7 years to reach 9k subs. the next 7.5k subs in about 6 weeks. This has made us very happy.
I can't wait to watch both, but the real question is what craft beer should I select while watching them, something with a Y for Yor and something with a G for Gor
I think in Yor, the idea was supposed to be the rebellion had only just finished preparations coincidentally at the moment Yor showed up
Ah, Reb Brown: the canonical Captain America!
Glen McCulla the Italian Red Skull
@@srstriker6420 That was the Matt Salinger version - the Reb Cap faced greater villains, like a slumming-it Christopher Lee with an old age gas! Cap vs Drac: what's not to love?
Glen McCulla oh
Glen McCulla anyway have you watched the Supervoid cinema?
@@srstriker6420 It's a channel i was unaware of. Checking it out now - cheers for the heads up!:)
Wow don’t think I’ve ever actually seen Yor! Looks brilliantly bonkers! Gor is a childhood guilty pleasure, love it! Great video buddy! 👍🏻🎥🥰
Two films that would be fun comparing : The Car (1977) and Christine (1983)
I can't get the title song of Yor out of my head. It's so catchy. My idea for a double bill review: Orca and Barracuda.
The only commercial for 'Yor, the Hunter From the Future' that I recall never showed any spaceships or robots. He smacked a burning tree with his stone axe, and there was some talk.
He may not have played He-Man, but he did play Captain America before Chris Evans and even before Matt Salinger!
Yor was an epic movie for me, as well as Flash Gordon.
great review....
please do THE NAKED ROAD
2:05 She was the ill fated helicopter pilot from Moonraker.
@Big Al That's right. Too beautiful to live in a Bond movie I guess?
Please do a review on Orca the Killer Whale 1977.
A+ for Big McLargehuge namedrop 😎
When you said "Gor has stars," my first thought was "Hey, Reb Brown was in Uncommon Valor, and Yor has Anthony Wyngarde (although apparently dubbed)." I actually thought about seening Yor when it came out; guess I dodged that bullet.
Comparative "bad" movies? How about The Earth Dies Screaming vs. Target: Earth?
3:12
this is so good
Yor has Corrine Clery, sealing the win. I thought the lead hotsy looked familiar.
Yor has that theme song- debate over!
THAT is the perennial question, it really is. 😳
_The Incredible 2-Headed Transplant_
[1971 -- Cast includes Bruce Dern (frequently cast as a deranged character), Casey Kasem (i.e., Shaggy), and Pat Priest (i.e. Marilyn Munster), in a film about a truly insane scientist (Dern) who decides it's a good idea to graft the head of a psychopathic killer onto a mentally-impaired, gentle giant farmhand's body, after which homicidal fun ensues] versus _The Thing with Two Heads_
[1972 -- Cast includes Ray Milland (former Oscar winner) and Rosey Grier (former NFL All-Pro defensive lineman), in a film about a wheelchair-bound white racist doctor (Milland) seeking a transplant of his head onto a healthy body, only to awaken and discover it's been attached to that a black convict (Grier), after which campy racial jokes ensue].
That darn Dern!
One other Oliver Reed gem you may want to check out is "Spasms" with guest star Peter Fonda-
"Yor" may have all the razzmatazz and characterizations, but come on; Oliver Reed!
I saw Yor once a long time ago and it was a pretty good movie but I've never seen or heard of Gor. I've seen Masters of the Universe, Krull, Kull and Beastmaster and they were really good movies
The overlord sounds so like Christopher Lee.
How about the American vs European version of: Dawn of the Dead? Or Romero VS. Argento! Thanks so much!
5:17 The Mummy with hair.
Dolph Lungren as He-Man and Frank Langella as Exskeletor in Masters of the Universe in 1987.
Gotta love Oliver Reed's reading of that line:
Reed: "One ........ hundred ................ men ................................ women ............................................ and ........................................................................"
Me: "...Children!!! Yeah, we get it! Just say it and finish the fricking line awready!! Children!! Children!!"
I'm still waiting for the Yor sequel.
Yor Next?
"I am only a pleasure slave." That is one amazing yet confusing lines I have ever heard. I'll pick Gor, but I love Yor nonetheless
It seems that in Yor, they reused whatever they had left from the sets and suits of Starcrash
"I have come to guard the Homestarm'n."
"Sewiously, Pom Pom, I'm about to pee my pants."
Punch Rockgroin!
Thank you
this was awesome. thank you
I'm pretty sure Gor is based on the book Tarnsmen of Gor, a knockoff of the John Carter series. If I recall there was some controversy over the author having a thing for bondage and it came out in his work.
I couldn't get through Gor but found Yor quite entertaining. It's simply more creative, silly, colourful, and as you said, the title character is much more likeable.
Wasn’t “Gor” in an episode of MST3K?
Not sure. Yor was
I wonder if they couldn’t get the rights to do Yor. Look how long it took them to do Star Crash.
Hehe... i actually saw Yor in the theater.
And to think Yor was suppose to be a 4 part mini series with 50 minute episodes. However it actually has score on Rotten Tomato with 17% and 46% where as Gor doesn't have any tomato percentage and a 2% audience score.
"Back off, bitch, or I'll settle your hash like the last girl!" 🤣 That line could have worked in either one of these!!!
Live the ersatz Queen music in Yor.
I saw Yor in the theater 😎
I didn't recognise him out of his usher's uniform.
Yor had the more catchier theme song.
Yor is definitely better, but Gor has a probably hammered Ollie Reed in a wizard costume so I'm kinda still split down the middle on this.
The dubbed poor Reb's voice in Yor. Also that whats her name from Moonraker.
Yor Reb Brown is the best
"They worship me as a divine goddess" - as opposed to a non-divine goddess?
And "Take me with you, stranger" must've been a deliberate joke... surely?!??
Yor of course. Have you not heard his song? "Yor's World he's tha maaaaannnnnnn!!!!!!"
I'm not sure that they could have done 'Gor' accurately to the books. This is a good thing.
Big McLargehuge! 💪
Yor was and still is awesome. I had a serious crush on Corrine Cleary and Carole Andre. Reb Brown is a legend. Gor is interesting. Talena is the lovely Rebecca Ferratti. Gor is better made but Yor is awesome.
Gor - eh, ok I guess
Yor - wtf, this looks like the best film ever made. Well, maybe not, but I do really want to see it. Preferably while drinking.
Look up Spoonys review of it. Covers the best bits and its a laugh riot.
You know, Reb actually would've made a good He-Man; he'd have been comfortable being completely Filmation accurate, even down to the simple way of talking and wouldn't have blinked an eye at having to wear a page boy haircut while fighting a skull faced blue muscleman in loincloth.
The two films I would love to see you compare side by side are Dor (1985) about a guy who gets locked out of his house by his wife for coming home late and drunk and Snor (1986) the sequel in which the drunken guy sleeps it off in the bushes behind the house.
Sor (1987) ...thats what he gets for passing out on his stomach in the bushes.
“I don’t like that man. He means trouble.”
Two movies to compare are The Road Warrior and A Boy And His Dog.
Yor also has the better soundtrack. The music in it is so damn 80's that you'll want to just want to perm that hair all big and wear neon clothes all over again! Also, with the GOR books, the main character was not a college professor. He was just a generic "Warrior". In the movie, they decided that people wouldn't understand a fantasy movie (because the main character in GOR is so damn complex a concept), so they decided that instead of using the character from the books as the hero, to have the hero be some idiot from OUR world. It would be like George Lucas deciding that 80's audiences wouldn't understand the concept of Luke Skywalker, and then changing things so that Keanu Reeves as "Ted from "Bill and Ted", gets teleported into the movie to fill the spot of the missing Luke Skywalker.
Remember those 80s trash fires and kids oohing and aahing over their big sister's exploding mousse cannisters?
@@skylx0812 Back then, they would use an entire damn can of hair spray on their heads along with the mousse. Women's hair back then would go up like fireworks if they got near an open flame.
You could add 1954s GOG for a triple threat Bad movie review!!!
Donner Pass Whiskey
Or better yet, a Gog vs Yog double feature 😀
I noticed you didn't bring up REB BROWN FREAKING RIDES IN MISSLE DROP KICK STYLE OFF A PTERODACTYL .
Truth is, isekai was an Italian idea!
And I thought I was the only fan of Yor!
Yor also had better mechanizing. For example; you watched this video on "Yor" monitor. That monitor was connected to "Yor" computer.
As much as celebrity appearances in schlock make me feel like Sideshow Bob when he heard Vanessa Redgrave in a low-brow Fox comedy, I am consoled that this schlock isn't that level of shit. Plus, they chew scenery as if they were coming off hunger strikes.
I enjoy reading the books about Gor, very entertaining, sorry the same can't be said about the movie. Carter of Mars was good.
Stego Thick McRunfast Ceratops
Bob Johnson
*Slab* *Bulkhead!*
I love Yor MST3K reference.
Ollie Reed no contest
GOR is supposed to be a combination of Conan the Barbarian sword & sorcery, and Science Fiction/Fantasy.
Another example of this crossover would be Warrior & the Sorceress from 1984! Robin, why not do a review of that film, and SORCERESS ?- - Both movies have pornographic exploitation, both are sword & sandal non-epics, both are sleazy low budget flicks!