Another film released during the early 1980s mini boom in sword and sorcery movies, although this one's not indebted to the later CONAN THE BARBARIAN but rather a fantasy version of STAR WARS, complete with Jack Palance playing a villain with a Darth Vader-style helmet. It's tawdry stuff indeed, with a wooden hero lacking charisma, a paint-by-numbers quest narrative, cliched Dungeons & Dragons inspired characters, and absolutely pitiful action sequences. Sure, the cheesy FX are mildly amusing and the locations are okay, but there's nothing here for the genre fan to enjoy much of, apart from Bernard Bresslaw amusingly playing a giant.
Review of Hawk the Slayer
