So cool how they used the legend of King Arthur and Merlin and the Lady In The Lake all for a brand new thrilling adventure story. Pretty sure nobody ever did that before.
6:11 Hold on, that's almost an idea if all the men really slept with the 3/4 Horsewomen of the Apocalypse. I can't believe I wrote that sentence. There's still no consequences because the only one that would matter would be Death. "I slept with War and we had the mother of all battles. How about you?" "Famine.... I was hungry again in an hour." "Your lucky, I got Pestilence... have we invented penicillin yet? Asking for a friend."
@@euansmith3699 Listen Up: I once succeeded in actually pulling myself together. And by "together" I'm talking COMPLETELY together---and the outcome was close to catastrophic. I ended up in emergency receiving, where they had to surgically extricate the big toe of my left foot from where it had somehow lodged itself in the lower region of the alimentary canal. The embarrassment was profound. And that $1800 hospital bill was no laughing matter, neither.
"This is Owen, who looks like Michael Palin grew a mullet and joined a gym." Replace Palin's name with the name of any D&D nerd you know and you have a description of their heroic campaign character. Of course, when it comes to "bit players in B-movies" going onto greater things behind the camera, there is Clint Eastwood. From bit parts in "Revenge Of The Creature" and "Tarantula" to award winning producer and director of "Unforgiven" (1992) and "Million Dollar Baby" (2004) to name a few. Of course, he did keep doing the acting gig as well, but never won an acting award yet.
@@karlkarlos3545 The third movie ''The Creature Walks Among Us''(1958) is my favorite as the best of the 3, for its depth of meaning on human nature. And yes, ''Tarantula'' is very good too, better than ''Them'' & ''The Black Scorpion'' combined, always because of the human side. I remember ''Them'' uniquely for the hilarious ''sugar warehouses'' bit, which shows that ants will always be ants. & I must say too that I didn't see it coming !
Strangely, we actually shot an attempted pilot for a would-be sword-and-sorcery web series here in Western North Carolina kinda in the same fashion nearly a decade ago called VOLTARA THE DEMONSLAYER. I was one of the DOPs - you can watch both that and the fundraiser video on Alex Murphy's channel!
Hey man just discovered your channel today.... .. . Awesome videos brother... .. . Nicely crafted and entertaining as all hell... .. . I look forward to checking out everything you put out in the future and watching all your old videos... .. !
Wow, between the hero looking like a Roid'd out Michael Palin and the Terry Gilliam-style stop-motion dragon, this movie could almost be a Monty Python sketch! 🤣
Thanks for the tip on Tales from the Lodge. I didn't find it on Amazon right away. Stupidly, I worked counter to Amazon's engine and typed the exact title of the film in the search. The top result was what appears to be a bad horror from 2020 called Don't Speak which has no apparent relationship to Tales. The second result was a Pierce Brosnan rom-com, ffs. Apparently searching by title is the wrong way to go about it in Amazon. Scrolling down 8 titles (immediately after Serengeti II, Season I for some reason) I found Tales from the Lodge. Based on your recommendation, I will be purchasing the film for Christmas. Based on Amazon's excellent search capabilities, I will be purchasing it somewhere, anywhere else.
@@Malum09 Yeah, if only they'd shown him jumping in to a fridge and slamming the door before the explosion, my suspension of disbelief would have been sustained 😂
You have to be crazy to make a movie like this one on a shoestring budget. Did Murphy really believe that he could compete with big budget adventure movies? Why didn't he simply stick to low budget horror?
A bit player who has had a curious career? The cover Linda for Sam Raimi's The Evil Dead movie was this model named Bridget Hoffman who went on to have a bit role as a nun who took a vow of silence... next to future Oscar winner Frances McDormand no less... in Raimi's next movie Crimewave.... and then she had a voice over role the movie Darkman. And from that voiceover role, the former model went on to do voiceover work, scriptwriting, ADR directing and eventually running her own casting studio where she filled ADR roles for animated movies. Apart from Sam Raimi himself, she got the most out of the Evil Dead and she wasn't even in the movie. Her career was so odd that Raimi cast her in the first episode of Ash vs the Evil Dead just he could finally name drop her in the commentary track.
@@TheRealNormanBates Yeah, the cover was based on a photo shoot with her and Bruce. The Elite Entertainment Evil Dead DVD has the entire shoot as part of its special features. It's so weird to go from that to some of the anime interviews she did in the 90s.
Could you review"Journey to the Center of the Earth," (1995) failed TV pilot. I think it was supposed to be a pilot by the ending?! Its on Amazon prime video.
We bought on DVD, but has since been cleaned up and released on the box set Magic, Myth & Mutilation: The Micro-Budget Cinema of Michael J Murphy, 1968-2014 amzn.to/43cCi7z
Hey Robin, ever seen Wizards of the Lost Kingdom? It's got mermaid tits, weird snowman things and a LOT of stock footage from other shitty B-movies from the 80's.
I recently saw a music video by Tom Cardy about the Lord of the Rings. It’s simply Tolkien singing the plot: “They walk, walk, run, walk, walk, walk…” It’s well lit a look!
I've already had my fair share of exploitation and B-movies from the States and Italy, it's about time I cleanse my palette with some Bri'ish flavour...
They say the King Arthur will return to Britain in the hour of her greatest need. I guess they sure could have used him during the Battle of Britain and the Blitz.
Michael j. Murphy may have made a lot of movies but he wasn't a very nice person. He visited here in 1973 and drank too much (I paid for the Scotch), and was sarcastic and critical about everything around him. YUK!
To answer Robin's question at the end of the video albeit in a round about way, Bob Guiccione continued publishing Penthouse and got out of the movie business (Caligula). BTW, that's a good one to review.
I worked on 3rd edition of DUNGEON &DRAGONS ( you can find my name in the back of the Player's Guide) and I could never, never, never come up with a dungeon this bad. If you're going to steal from D&D at least get it right.
Sewers did exist in the ancient world and were necessary in the large cities of the Roman Empire. Britain having been part of the Empire for four hundred years, there is no reason why people living in Dark Age Britain would not know what a sewer was.
Answering the question no one asked: What if Ed Wood had directed Excalibur?
It's like barberella movie meets excalibur movie and little bit of manos hands of fate thrown in🤣
It'll be called Avalon; Plan 9 from Medieval Times.
Think the Gods he did not. We would of never had that epic film.
Tor Johnson: TIME FOR GO ON QUEST!
3:09 he wasn't saved by the Elephant man... that's Old Gregg from Mighty Boosh.😆
So cool how they used the legend of King Arthur and Merlin and the Lady In The Lake all for a brand new thrilling adventure story. Pretty sure nobody ever did that before.
6:38 missed opportunity for a Monty Python soundbite ("Run away! Run away!")
6:11 Hold on, that's almost an idea if all the men really slept with the 3/4 Horsewomen of the Apocalypse.
I can't believe I wrote that sentence. There's still no consequences because the only one that would matter would be Death.
"I slept with War and we had the mother of all battles. How about you?" "Famine.... I was hungry again in an hour."
"Your lucky, I got Pestilence... have we invented penicillin yet? Asking for a friend."
"Does love feel like burning?"
Your editing continues to be 11/10 👏
When I first saw his cloak, I thought it was curtains for our hero.
Oh Groan.
@@ashleys9397 Pull your self together! 😂
@@euansmith3699 Listen Up: I once succeeded in actually pulling myself together. And by "together" I'm talking COMPLETELY together---and the outcome was close to catastrophic. I ended up in emergency receiving, where they had to surgically extricate the big toe of my left foot from where it had somehow lodged itself in the lower region of the alimentary canal. The embarrassment was profound. And that $1800 hospital bill was no laughing matter, neither.
@@ashleys9397 😂😂😂
That joke could make a Venetian blind.
Merlin looks like he's escaped from Fraggle Rock
"This is Owen, who looks like Michael Palin grew a mullet and joined a gym." Replace Palin's name with the name of any D&D nerd you know and you have a description of their heroic campaign character.
Of course, when it comes to "bit players in B-movies" going onto greater things behind the camera, there is Clint Eastwood. From bit parts in "Revenge Of The Creature" and "Tarantula" to award winning producer and director of "Unforgiven" (1992) and "Million Dollar Baby" (2004) to name a few. Of course, he did keep doing the acting gig as well, but never won an acting award yet.
The difference is that "Tarantula" is a good movie that gained the status of a genre classic. "Revenge Of The Creature" not so much.
@@karlkarlos3545
The third movie ''The Creature Walks Among Us''(1958) is my favorite as the best of the 3,
for its depth of meaning on human nature.
And yes, ''Tarantula'' is very good too, better than ''Them'' & ''The Black Scorpion'' combined,
always because of the human side.
I remember ''Them'' uniquely for the hilarious ''sugar warehouses'' bit,
which shows that ants will always be ants.
& I must say too that I didn't see it coming !
4:22 the prize will be _Humungous!_
And the Victor will just walk away.
Definitely brings to mind Monty Python and the Holy Grail -
With the important difference being that that one is supposed to be and is funny 😉✌️
🍿
@@only257 ✌️
While Python was a BBC Historical Documentary.
I see hairspray still exists
Oddly enough the "avoiding being sacrificed by being shot out" was used a year later in a rather different movie - Joe VS the Volcano! LOL
Bowie: "Steal from the Best."
I keep imagining people running behind them clapping coconuts shells together .🤔
Hey, I think I remember this episode of Doctor Who! (or was it Blake's 7)
Well this film puts the "English actors are better than American actors" myth to rest lol.
Nice ''Mobil Oil'' logo !
The gentleman’s make-up at 4:12 reminds me of the singer Klaus Nomi
Oh goody another sword-and-sandal movie. I remember watching a lot of those type of movies back in the 80s.
Holy F, I have never even heard of this total classic. Ebay immediately.
Good luck, it took us a while to locate a copy.
IKR
@@DarkCornersReviews my god this is just like the garbage pail kids movie expect it looks more worse though📼
1:20 "Only in Britain they make Cult Chants sound sarcastic."
Strangely, we actually shot an attempted pilot for a would-be sword-and-sorcery web series here in Western North Carolina kinda in the same fashion nearly a decade ago called VOLTARA THE DEMONSLAYER. I was one of the DOPs - you can watch both that and the fundraiser video on Alex Murphy's channel!
Hey man just discovered your channel today.... .. . Awesome videos brother... .. . Nicely crafted and entertaining as all hell... .. . I look forward to checking out everything you put out in the future and watching all your old videos... .. !
This looks ASTOUNDING. Can't believe this is the first I've heard of Murphy, he looks like an amazing auteur of shit.
He died in 2015. Also it's British.
That way! To the lake!
6:54 Where'd he go?
Speaking of bit roll actors who went on to do bigger things, Jackie chan was in enter the dragon for about 5 seconds.
One of my favorite 80s sword and sorcery film is Excalibur.
Captain Jean Luc-Picard was in that movie.
Wow, between the hero looking like a Roid'd out Michael Palin and the Terry Gilliam-style stop-motion dragon, this movie could almost be a Monty Python sketch! 🤣
Note to hero; if you tie a horse UP like that, he or she will slip the bridle. Glad to get out of the movie, I dare say.
🤔🤔🤔🐴🐴🐴🐴
One of the best channels on youtube.
It's not so much that words fail me, as that this garbage isn't even worthy of any words I might use.
This looked like an episode of Primeval near the end. ...well, at the beginning, middle and the end.
Are those druids actually chanting "Aradia?" I guess someone read Goddess of the Witches.
The 'Reflection Dude' looks like a slightly higher than average budget Doctor Who Monster.
Said monster looks more like a poverty row version of Swamp Thing.
"We shall go... that way!"
"Why?"
"Because the Force guides me, the old man in the robes told me so!"
"I think you're in the wrong galaxy for that..."
The two announces at the tournament look like extras from David Bowie's Ashes to Ashes video!!
Your comment about Michael Palin reminded me of his "Ripping Yarns".
There are the Canadian-made ''The Mask''(1961) and ''Lady Of The Lake"(1998) that are worth reviewing.
OMG! I think you've just discovered the inspiration behind The Hunger Games! I mean, just look how the bad guys are all decked out for the tournament.
Thanks for the tip on Tales from the Lodge. I didn't find it on Amazon right away. Stupidly, I worked counter to Amazon's engine and typed the exact title of the film in the search. The top result was what appears to be a bad horror from 2020 called Don't Speak which has no apparent relationship to Tales. The second result was a Pierce Brosnan rom-com, ffs. Apparently searching by title is the wrong way to go about it in Amazon.
Scrolling down 8 titles (immediately after Serengeti II, Season I for some reason) I found Tales from the Lodge. Based on your recommendation, I will be purchasing the film for Christmas. Based on Amazon's excellent search capabilities, I will be purchasing it somewhere, anywhere else.
I love Michael J Murphy’s work!
“Where’s my cottage…?” - Rather Dashing
7:27 budget at the end of its tether.
Wait, what happened in the end?!
Yeah, I'm a bit lost on that one too. I can't understand what the character says when he comes onto the beach?
He says, 'The blast blew me here.' So despite being blow up, he is fine.
@@robinbailes5236 ohhhh, yeah that sucks
@@Malum09 Yeah, if only they'd shown him jumping in to a fridge and slamming the door before the explosion, my suspension of disbelief would have been sustained 😂
3:08 a bad case of kelpiesis
“Look I don’t have a weapon like yours”… I’ve got to use that line in D&D lol.
Don Dohler would be proud.
Cultists: nonsensical chanting
Subtitle: cult like chanting, similar to what the Ewoks worshipping C3PO#
A plus guys.
At the dragon they had some nifty special-effects, but the guy was just standing there, looking for instructions? MEh.
Do you have a link where I could buy this movie yet
2:46 "Beefcake for the ladies. CHECK"
This is like if Terry Gilliam had even less of a budget and 100% self awareness
This guy give a new dimension to "Low Budget"...................................Ultra-Very-Low Budget................
We really should have filmed more of our early 80s LARPing as well.
I always knew Buckinghamshire was a horrific affliction on this country.
Lol...this would have been perfect for MST3K
And rifftrax 📼
It might've been more bearable if there were more watery tarts 😀
Moistened bints.
@@themoviedealers Chucking cutlery about...
Seems more of a parody of a sword & sandal movie. Most definitely an acquired taste for this “ masterpiece “.
Awesome T-shirt, Robin. Where'd you get it?
Found it on Teepublic a year ago, but doesn't seem to be there anymore.
How have you not reviewed death run
You have to be crazy to make a movie like this one on a shoestring budget. Did Murphy really believe that he could compete with big budget adventure movies? Why didn't he simply stick to low budget horror?
Great review 😌🙃😎📼
A bit player who has had a curious career? The cover Linda for Sam Raimi's The Evil Dead movie was this model named Bridget Hoffman who went on to have a bit role as a nun who took a vow of silence... next to future Oscar winner Frances McDormand no less... in Raimi's next movie Crimewave.... and then she had a voice over role the movie Darkman. And from that voiceover role, the former model went on to do voiceover work, scriptwriting, ADR directing and eventually running her own casting studio where she filled ADR roles for animated movies. Apart from Sam Raimi himself, she got the most out of the Evil Dead and she wasn't even in the movie. Her career was so odd that Raimi cast her in the first episode of Ash vs the Evil Dead just he could finally name drop her in the commentary track.
I’m guessing you are referring to the woman on the poster (getting pulled into the ground while reaching for the sky)?
@@TheRealNormanBates Yeah, the cover was based on a photo shoot with her and Bruce. The Elite Entertainment Evil Dead DVD has the entire shoot as part of its special features.
It's so weird to go from that to some of the anime interviews she did in the 90s.
Could you review"Journey to the Center of the Earth," (1995) failed TV pilot. I think it was supposed to be a pilot by the ending?! Its on Amazon prime video.
The beauty pagent of apokalipsis LOL!!!!
One of those films where the DVD cover is better than the actual film.
5:25, incorrect use of the phrase begs the question...feel free to look it up.
Where did you find it to watch it?
We bought on DVD, but has since been cleaned up and released on the box set Magic, Myth & Mutilation: The Micro-Budget Cinema of Michael J Murphy, 1968-2014 amzn.to/43cCi7z
Hey Robin, ever seen Wizards of the Lost Kingdom?
It's got mermaid tits, weird snowman things and a LOT of stock footage from other shitty B-movies from the 80's.
It's like a Ren Faire went wildly off the rails. I do kind of like that shell bed though.
the frog bint!
I recently saw a music video by Tom Cardy about the Lord of the Rings. It’s simply Tolkien singing the plot: “They walk, walk, run, walk, walk, walk…” It’s well lit a look!
Another cool shirt, Robin.
I don't think I've seen any Cecily Fay videos on your channel. Odd, because I would think they were right up your street.
I've already had my fair share of exploitation and B-movies from the States and Italy, it's about time I cleanse my palette with some Bri'ish flavour...
thanks for taking the hit on this, mate
There is more wood in this acting than found in any builder's merchants😂😂😂
That swamp dude is old gregg
'Soon Avalon will rule da world guvna'
They say the King Arthur will return to Britain in the hour of her greatest need. I guess they sure could have used him during the Battle of Britain and the Blitz.
Maybe that isn’t Britain’s hour of greatest need
@@Malum09 I'm sure it can qualify as a runner-up.
It just means the worst is yet to come.
That, or he would have made a lousy pilot.
@@Flood520 Sure, it's easy to criticise, but have *you* ever tried flying a horse?!
We need him now to save Britain from Parliament and the politicians
who would have thought it possible... competition with fulci's conquest...
You said "Tales From The Lodge" was on Amazon, but I don't have it. I'm in the USA, so maybe that's why?
That is why, I'm afraid.
@@DarkCornersReviews D'oh!
This is probably my favorite movie from Murphy, its just so goofy in all the right ways
At 05:19 it looks kind of like they got the guy;'s costume from a sex shop.
Michael j. Murphy may have made a lot of movies but he wasn't a very nice person. He visited here in 1973 and drank too much (I paid for the Scotch), and was sarcastic and critical about everything around him. YUK!
How about a review of "The Lords of Magick" (1989)?
Owen, AKA Lord Mullet.
Oh, dear😀😀😀
Toyah Wilcox ??
I'd love to see you do a review of Hawk the Slayer. It seems a cut above this sort of movie, but still not exactly Hollywood level.
They did a review of "Hawk the Slayer" a year ago.
@@zandorvorkov986 Thanks! I will definitely look it up.
@@GreyhawkGrognard Happy to help!😀
"The beauty pageant of the Apocalypse." 😅
To answer Robin's question at the end of the video albeit in a round about way, Bob Guiccione continued publishing Penthouse and got out of the movie business (Caligula). BTW, that's a good one to review.
I worked on 3rd edition of DUNGEON &DRAGONS ( you can find my name in the back of the Player's Guide) and I could never, never, never come up with a dungeon this bad.
If you're going to steal from D&D at least get it right.
Thanks guys : )
A Documentary on normal Life in Wiltshire 🎥
Italian swords & Sandals producer, "Hey guys, check out this movie Avalon. I've never seen anything so cheap and terrible."
4:13 Visage vibes
It’s old Gregg!!
This is from the same people who made Mad Max clone Death Run. That's hilariously bad, too.
Sewers did exist in the ancient world and were necessary in the large cities of the Roman Empire. Britain having been part of the Empire for four hundred years, there is no reason why people living in Dark Age Britain would not know what a sewer was.
Kinda reminds me of Prisoners of the Lost Universe.