Cheap B Grade Fantasy Flicks...

[Kilmore]

Oh yeah, and if you don't mind anime and like cracky fantasy shows, you should love Slayers. The Slayers anime comes in two flavors, regular Slayers, which has been animated into three TV series' and a movie, and features mega-sorceress Lina Inverse with a powerful, handsome, but dumb swordsman, a nutcase princess, and a too cool to be described swordsman-shaman-monster, along with a changing assortment of priests, priestesses, princes and princesses, monsters, and dragons.

Then there's Slayers Special, which has been made into several animated movies and straight to video episodes and features Lina with a nutty scantily clad sorceress companion named Naga the White Serpent.

Info is available at www.inverse.org

 

[Zaukrie]

Ok, so I did "find" and didn't read the whole thing, but has anyone seen "Druids"? I keep seeing that in the used DVD store.

 

[Dinkeldog]

"Erik the Viking" is fun, too.

 

[Assenpfeffer]

Ok, so I did "find" and didn't read the whole thing, but has anyone seen "Druids"? I keep seeing that in the used DVD store.

That was a big-budget epic that flopped in France. I've heard it's wretched.

 

[WayneLigon]

While not a movie, but availible on DVD, The Black Adder series. ...

The scripts to the series can be found here: http://morpho.dar.net/~northrup/ba/

Especially funny is the episode 'Witchsmeller Pursuivant', which has all sorts of fun. If you want a humorous Inquisitor, you can't go wrong with the Witch-smeller.

Witchsmeller: Can you say the Lord's Prayer?

Edmund: Well, yes -- I can say it backwards if you like!

Witchsmeller: CONFESSION!

(The crowd cheers)

Witchsmeller: Now, Edmund, I believe you have a pussycat...

Edmund: Yes.

Witchsmeller: Ohh!

(The crowd `Ohh's)

Witchsmeller: Its name is Bubbles?

Edmund: Right.

Witchsmeller: Yes, or, to give it its full name, Beelzebubbles !!!

 

[Doppleganger]

Flesh & Blood - After reading the movies lists here, it has spurred me to mention my favorite. For many years I thought "Conan" was the best of the medieval fantasy movies, until recently when I saw "Flesh & Blood" (1985 starring Rutger Hauer & Jennifer Jason Leigh). After viewing it for the first time I thought, Wow, I have just seen what surely must have been George R.R. Martin's first inspiration for his Song of Ice and Fire series. There are many parallels between the two storylines and their overall feel. I'm not sure if it can be categorized as a "B" movie, but at the same time it's definately not a big-budget blockbuster. It's a gritty, semi-realistic story revolving around a band of medieval mercs, and includes tactical castle-seiges, the plague, religious mysticism, lords & ladies, and gruesome combat.

 

[WayneLigon]

Hearts and Armor (1982) is a fairly low-budget fantasy film, and the only one I know of to deal with the Caroligian cycle of stories (Charlemagne's paladins, etc). I don't even see it on IMDB, though I might not be searching it correctly; it might be under another name.

SCAian Movie List has a nice list as well.

 

[krunchyfrogg]

I remember a movie I think was called Barbarian Twins, it had the musclebound twins who did a lot of late 80's and early90's straight to video stuff. It definatly qualifies as a fantasy movie and a B movie. It in no way qualifies as good though.

It's called The Barbarians, and it stars two actors going by the stage name, "The Barbarian Brothers."

I actually like this silly movie, and own a copy!