yes and it time to travel back to the die day of lew grade itc film and an age of darkness and of low budget and even low tech special effect and of bad acting and even bad write represent a world where clichés run rampant and hawk the slayer and his mindsword set the cause of sword and sorcery back several year . shot almost entirely on a single abbey set in pinewood and the wood surround the studio in the heart of autumn and this demented no budget british spaghetti sword opera a sort of would be a fistful of sword pit john terry virtuous hero against his evil one eye brother with a taste for darth vaderesque headgear jack palance after the latter kill their badly dub dad ferdy mayne in a squabble over the power that be rightly mmmmiiiiiiinnnnnnneee . that power be a magical mindsword with a glow green handle that can fall into your hand if you think about it ( and run the film backwards ) . mind you and a flashback later reveal and the evil darth voltan ( okay and he not really call darth ) have already kill the love of hawk life and something which almost shock one time felix leiter ( in the living daylight ) john terry into change his expression and before move on to underline what a bad egg he be by kidnap guest star annette crosbie mother superior and prompt hawk into action . well and not exactly action and more rid around the same stretch of woodland while ineffectually rip off the magnificent seven and a fistful of dollar ( you half expect john terry to say my pony do not like begin laugh at . ) a he assemble his a team a giant play by carry on veteran bernard bresslaw and an elfin bowman who talk like a constipated dalek and a not particularly short dwarf and patricia quinn witch with a particularly naff line in sorcery involve and er and smokey egg . but then it pretty obvious that the budget do not really stretch to much in the way of even the cheap special effect and with those there be largely of the stop the camera and start it again after the actor have leave the frame variety and alongside a magic neon hula hoop leave over from some disco movie and a pair of spock ear from a novelty shop and and in one memorable kill and silly string ( or a the dvd chapter stop call it the silly string of death ) . and my and do not they get a good deal on the fog machine that week . long shot also seem a bit of an alien concept for director terry marcel and who cut his teeth a a third assistant director on carry on cleo and never seem to have scale those lofty peak again . most of the film be play in medium shot to cut down on the number of actor require and to hide the fact the set isn not that big or perhaps just out of the fear that if they move the camera too far back and the actor will take the opportunity to run away before they have to deliver line like my son drogo speak true . even a we speak and the wizard gather in the south or serial overactor shane briant immortal i be no messenger . but i will give you a message . the message of death . jack palance doesn not get much good dialogue either and but chew on what he get for more than it worth anyway he the only actor who could make the word wiiiiizzzzzaaaaaahhhrrrrrrdddddd . last almost as long a hamlet soliloquy and so it a shock to see how relaxed and and well and normal he look in the raw onset interview on the uk dvd ( where he express far more admiration for dinsdale landen than elia kazan ) . although even he might have balk at bernard bresslaw defiant i would sooner eat cowdung . ( meet with the inevitable response that can be arrange and and you can wash it down with your own blood if need be . ) indeed and when hawk address patricia quinn as woman a in woman and we need the use of your magic you half expect her to reply i be a man . i be not old and i be 37. what i object to be you automatically treat me like an inferior . oh and slayer eh . very nice . and how would you get that and eh . by exploit the worker . by hang on to outdated imperialist dogma which perpetuate the economic and social difference in our society . just because some die character actor lob a mindsword at you be no basis for a system of government . sadly much of the film be more dull than unintentionally funny represent writer producer marcel and harry robertson clearly intend this and you know and for kid and so it a bloodless school panto affair for much of the running time and visually bland and lethargic even at a modest hour and a half . how they expect to stretch it out to a series of five movie be anyone guess ( the film end up a the support feature to saturn three ) . still and on the plus side former pop star and hammer and child film foundation regular composer harry robertson ( who write the superb hammer transylvanian western score for twin of evil a harry robinson it really be outstandingly good ) turn in a score that like a demented disco combination of an ennio morricone paella western and jeff wayne war of the world and and the film be nowhere near a soul destroyingly awful a marcel and robertson subsequent collaboration seven year later and the almost unwatchable even at gunpoint jane and the lost city . naturally for a naff movie this boast a good uk dvd and with a superb transfer ( but then it not a if the negative get much use ) and an array of more on set interview than any sane individual could ever want to watch and include one great moment where marcel be ask if it true he turn down a $ 10m budget because he do not want to cast big name represent that a load of rubbish he reply while try not to burst out laughing .