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The Dungeonmaster
Paul, a computer whiz who spends more time with his machine than with his girlfriend, finds that he has been chosen as a worthy opponent for Mestema, an evil wizard who has spent centuries searching for a challenging foe. After having his computer changed into a wristband weapon, Paul does battle with a variety of monsters before finally coming face to face with the ultimate adversary.
Release : | 1984 |
Rating : | 4.5 |
Studio : | Empire Pictures, Ragewar Productions, |
Crew : | Production Design, Director of Photography, |
Cast : | Jeffrey Byron Richard Moll Leslie Wing Blackie Lawless Chris Holmes |
Genre : | Fantasy Horror Thriller Science Fiction Mystery |
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Great movie! If you want to be entertained and have a few good laughs, see this movie. The music is also very good,
Ok... Let's be honest. It cannot be the best movie but is quite enjoyable. The movie has the potential to develop a great plot for future movies
This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.
Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.
One of the first films to set itself up like a virtual video game? Maybe so, but it's an extremely lackadaisical and unfocused experiment by Empire films that's only played out for the special effects and is lazily broken up in structure-less and poorly linked levels. As a new director (from Charles Brand to Ted Nicolau and John Carl Buechler) controls a particular segment. The problem here is that there's no real substance to them, so they're non-effective and mainly unexciting. It's too casual.Paul Bradford (wholesomely played by Jeffery Byron) is a computer maestro who his girlfriend (a likable Leslie Wing) believes he spends too much time with his computer Cal. Later that night he gets challenged by a bored, centuries old evil wizard Mestema (a ridiculously hammy Richard Moll) to take part in some scenarios in the order to save his girlfriend.Most of the challenges range from mediocre (encountering some zombies and taking on some historical wax figures of monsters and killers in an iced cave), lame (the metal band W.A.S.P torturing its viewers) to plain boring (battling dwarfs and a gigantic statue), as if someone had accidentally set the mode to easy. That's very easy. No suspense, style or weight. Everything feels cramped, the dialogues are insipid and the thing moves 'too' fast. It only lasts for about 70 minutes. My pick of the lot would have been the serial killer inclusion, where it has Paul trying to get to his girlfriend before the killer strikes again. At least it winds up few moments of tension and interest, even with such a token concept.In the end it's secondary to the clumsy, but dingy visual effects (we get an unimaginative light show of lasers and animation that make swoosh sounds) and hokey make-up FX. We're zapped by a bunch of annoying sounds and the playful score is pretty much a misfire.It's corny and dumb junk, but at least harmlessly watchable. Watch out for the bad puns.
2.5 out of 10? Really? It's not that bad for what I'd like to call - along with ELIMINATORS - a proto-video game movie. Say you're working at your standard schlock factory - i.e. Empire Pictures - and you and six of your other director friends do a semi-anthology piece for fun together. You end up with this ....Think DRAGON'S LAIR with a Clark Kentish nerd in Subzero's ninja get-up from MORTAL KOMBAT, only instead of a dragon there's Bull Shannon from NIGHT COURT as the villain. When you're done laughing, crack open your beer. Now here's the punchline: you can watch it with your kids. No boobs, no blood. When you're done doing a spit take, wipe your mouth, and give it a shot.Vintage essence of 1980s in a bottle, stop-motion courtesy of Dave Allen - of LASERBLAST infamy, and a Charles Band soundtrack.~Ray
Oh, heavens. This is one of the most awful movies I've ever watched. My friend Kevin worked at a video store, and would bring home a free movie every night. We marveled at his horrible taste -- each movie was worse than the last. Years later, however, The Dungeonmaster still stands out in my mind as the worst. It has seven directors and eight writers, and while I'm sure it was meant as a collaboration, it really feels like every ten minutes they decided, "Ugh! This is ghastly!" and got another director and writer to do the next segment, without there ever being any improvement. Even the wonderful Richard Moll as Mestema wasn't enough to save this train wreck of a movie. Go ahead and rent it if you love to revel in the awfulness of really terrible movies otherwise you might be better off with some of the directors' later works like Troll or Puppet Master 5: The Final Chapter. Er, on second thought, maybe that's not such a good idea, either.
Well this movie has been a favorites of mine for years. It was one of the first Empire films to make it to my collection. I think this is one of the better movies Charlie did in the 80 era. The original title was Ragewar The challenges of Excalibrate. This film had a few problems in post production, due to what I think was lack of funds. The editing shows that it was rushed a bit, the seven challenges that Excalibrate, played by Jeffery Byron has to face in order to save his girlfriend is out of sequence a cording to the start and End credits. In results of this post production mess up some of the transitions to the different challenges seems rushed and the part "Cave Beast" directed by Peter Manoogian give me the felling that something is missing and got left on the cutting room floor. Then I got my Lightning video Laserdisc edition of Dungeonmaster, I was surprised to see that the opening dream sequence was cut from it. I own a UK. Entertainment in Video. VHS tape, I purchased about 8 years ago. Here is the relative long Dream sequence included. "As shown in the end credits." I remember thinking back then, that it was odd for Charlie to include an opening sequence in Cinema Scope. Fans would know this is unusual for him in the old Empire days. However, I must say that this opening in Cinema Scope do the film credit and give it a sort of prospective look. Everybody has a favorites part of a movie. Mine in this one is the "Heavy Metal" sequence. Directed by Mr. Band him self. Here is just such a cool performance by W.A.S.P (1980 Rock Group). All in all This is a highly entertaining film and should be viewed frequently by anybody who has a love for those old sci-fi / horror films.