#Hawk The Slayer

[lilaccatholic]

I'm watching the cheesiest 80s fantasy movie with my mom and sister right now. It's called Hawk the Slayer, and I'm begging you all to watch it. Everyone has terrible hair. The villain has a helmet that is so clearly ripping off Darth Vader. The soundtrack is actively smashing together the dying corpse of disco with a pan flute and a synthesizer. There's more fog than a Spirit Halloween on October 31st. This is art.

[mariocki]

RIP Christopher Benjamin (27.12.1934 - 15.1.2025)

"That was another reason, in a way, that I decided to give [stage acting] up, because I was getting a bit - a bit dicey with the lines. People sort of wrote down, quite often, the things I said... instead of the things I should have said. They were known as my bloopers: 'Benjamin bloopers'. Some of my inventions were very good, I must admit. My feeling was, if I dried, I had to say something - and so that something was something that amused the rest of the cast considerably, quite often."

[lobbycards]

Hawk the Slayer, British Lobby (front of the house) Card. 1980

[mirkwoodest]

Hawk the Slayer (1980)

[glennk56]

Declan Mulholland in the 1980s.

Declan Mulholland, 1980, in Hawk the Slayer.

Declan Mulholland playing an FBI Agent in UK TV MiniSeries, Oppenheimer in 1980.

Declan Mulholland in an episode of Private Schulz, a comedic crime drama in 1981.

Declan Mulholland in Time Bandits with John Cleese in 1981.

Declan Mulholland was hired to play Jabba the Hutt in The Empire Strikes Back. He did a scene with Harrison Ford, complete with costuming and set. As it turns out, George Lucas was unsure how he was going to portray Jabba. He really didn't want a human to play him, he thought he would replace Declan in the scene with a stop-action animated Jabba. In the end he cut this scene and used a giant slug-like puppet as Jabba. Some say that Lucas did initially plan to have Declan play Jabba after William Hootkins turned down the role, but it wasn't working out with Declan.

[cinesludge]

Movie #30 of 2024: Hawk the Slayer

The story is ludicrous but editor Eric Boyd-Perkins bends time, warps flat performances (Jack Palance being the exception of course), motivates the use of heavy fishnet over lens diffused lighting, and composites charmingly practical vfx to lift this 1980 fantasy film to sublime levels of cinema you might not expect.

[adventuresandshopping]

Hawk the Slayer: Watch For Me In The Night Pub. Rebellion on DriveThruComics

The cult classic film Hawk The Slayer continues in a brand-new comic book sequel! Years after the final defeat of Voltan, his brother Hawk suspects the influence of the Dark One’s masters--the ancient and malevolent Black Wizards, whose touch remains a blight upon the mortal world. … But what awaits him, deep beneath the once-holy fortress of Dainsford, is a horror beyond his darkest nightmares.

[taxifurbied]

not enough hawk the slayer (1980) on this fucking website.

[mwardsky]

Top 10 sword and sorcery movies of the '80s no. 8: Hawk the Slayer (1980)

[nukethebees]

I genuinely, unironically love Hawk the Slayer. More folks should watch it, and then we can all gather round the fire and talk about the awesome soundtrack and how it sounds a little bit like Jeff Wayne at times, Jack Palance all but literally chewing the scenery, if any of us had played 80s British Character Bingo and what names we ticked off, speculating on whether they had a discount on the fog machine because there's fog in nearly every single scene (even inside the abbey towards the end!), and so on.

[schlock-luster-video]

Remembering film icon and the star of Dan Curtis' Dracula and Hawk the Slayer, Jack Palance on the anniversary of his death.

R.I.P. (1919 - 2006)

[lefilmdujour]

Hawk the Slayer / Terry Marcel / UK / 1980

[outofcontextrifftrax]

"Is it a Pizza Hut? Is it a KFC? Weary traveler, it is both!"

Bill Corbett, Hawk the Slayer

[lobbycards]

Hawk the Slayer, British Lobby (front of the house) Card. 1980

[mirkwoodest]

Shocked and disappointed that there are so few Hawk the Slayer posts on tumblr... like why are all y'all, especially the Wizards among you, sleeping on this film? Why don't I have a gif of Voltan screaming "WIZAAAARRRD!" The magic hula hoops? The Silly String of Death? The disco flute soundtrack? Horrible haircuts? Super saturated backdrops? Glowing fist sword? Hello?

[downthetubes]

Rebellion Releases: 2000AD REGENED, and Robo-Hunter news, too!

This week's titles from Rebellion, including 2000AD Regened, out today, plus news of a new Robo-Hunter collection heading our way...

This week’s edition of 2000AD, Prog 2325, is a REGENED edition, the first of 2023 – a special all-ages edition of the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic, with a cover from Steve Roberts. There are two collections out, also – and there’s news of a new Robo-Hunter collection, too, arriving in September. This packed issue inclues another case for Cadet Dredd, courtesy of Ned Hartley and Toby Willsmer, as he…