Krull
July 29, 1983 in theaters
Prince Colwyn sets out to rescue his bride from an alien fortress called the Black Fortress, assembling a fellowship of outlaws and outcasts and wielding a legendary throwing weapon called the Glaive. The 1983 sci-fi fantasy is a quest film that blends medieval mythology with outer-space invaders.
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The film was shot at Pinewood Studios in England and on location in Italy.
THE VERDICT
Synthesized from published reviews
Krull is a science-fantasy quest film that attempted something genuinely unusual in 1983: a medieval world invaded by alien conquerors, synthesizing Star Wars spectacle with classic fantasy adventure mythology. The result is more ambitious than cohesive — the Glaive is one of the era's most memorable weapon designs, and individual sequences (the Widow of the Web, the Black Fortress, the Slayers' assault) have real visual imagination. The narrative connecting those sequences is thinner than the world deserves. It holds cult affection because the ideas are interesting even when the execution is uneven, and a young Liam Neeson in the ensemble is a reminder of what this era of British genre filmmaking quietly assembled.
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