1982 · action · adventure · fantasy
The Beastmaster (1982)
Directed by Don Coscarelli1h 58m1982
Dar, the son of a king, is hunted by a priest after his birth and grows up in another family. When he becomes a grown man, his new father is murdered by savages and he discovers that he has the ability to communicate with animals, which leads him on a quest for revenge against his father's killers.
Our read: The Beastmaster (1982) (1982) reads as a neutral, kinetic, inventive action · adventure · fantasy entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, kinetic, measured action / adventure, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- brisk
- intense
- inventive
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