Viewing Date: Feb 22, 2024
Starring: Eric Allan Kramer, Margaret Lenzey, Donald O’Brien
Plot: Once upon a time a god gave a mighty sword to the king of Aquiles to bring justice to his people. Now he wants it back – but the king rather gives his life than the sword. Goddess Dehamira, who spoke for him, is being taken all her privileges and banned in a circle of fire, until a human arrives who’s strong enough to free her. When prince Ator becomes 18, he gets the sword from the mean sorcerer gnome Grindl, to free Dehamira and his people. On his journey he has to fight against dragons and other fantastic figures. (via IMDB)
Rules
- Troll 2 Mask
- Characters running!
- Crow: “Caw!”
- Birds
- Face touching
Quotes
- “Was he rubbing a balloon on his hair earlier?” (viewer)
- “The first impression is the one that counts”
What We Learned
- Thorn is king of the gods
- Death and beauty are unsuitable companions
- If you need to kill yourself, the reasonable thing to do is to hand your child off to an evil goblin magician to be raised.
- Anyone can repair a broken sword in a minutes.
Final Take
Believe it or not, this is the fourth movie in the ‘Ator’ series of low budget, sword and sorcery movies from the 80’s. Yes, it was bad, but in a lot less fun way than Iron Warrior (not to mention a pretty loose connection overall with that movie). Apparently this movie’s primary claim to fame is the re-use of masks from the iconic bad movie “Troll 2”. There were some hilarious monsters and action, but overall pretty boring story of the 18-going-on-35 warrior ‘Ator’ questing around the country side with Dejanira and his thief friend, with the conclusion centered around an evil king and his sister who’s ultimate goals are to marry / seduce Dejanira and Ator. Maybe they should just get some of the magic roofies that the goblin used on Ator’s mother… I honestly don’t even remember where we landed with Thorn, the angry king of gods that wanted his sword back.
We’ve certainly seen a lot worse, but the director should have quit while he was ahead after Iron Warrior.
Bad Movie Thursday 