DEATHSTALKER: New Sales Art Debuts Online
Shout! will release the film in North America from October 10.
Shout! will release the film in North America from October 10.
The film is currently set to premiere for the 78th Locarno Film Festival in August.
If you follow film fandom or “Action Twitter” or anything relevant to actor and action star Daniel Bernhardt, you’ve probably went about as nuts as everyone else when you read the Screendaily exclusive reporting plans to reboot 80s cult sword-and-sorcery thriller, Deathstalker. There are four of these films in existence stemming from the 1983 installment, capitalizing off of successes like the Conan films and Red Sonja with a similar allure. The first, produced by Roger Corman among others and starring Rick Hill, sees the titular warrior banding together with several other heroes ahead of a tournament hosted by a wicked sorceror in a seedy plot to retain power. That film is now getting a facelift at the behest of PG: Psycho Goreman director Steven Kostanski who will also pen the script. Bernhardt, a longstanding name in the genre with credits stretching back to the DTV action era and as of […]
There are kids’ films, and then you have films that push the envelope to the limits of any “Parental Guidance” certifications. Indeed, you have the latter with Manborg and The Void helmer Steven Kostanski’s R-rated fantasy horror, PG: Psycho Goreman, which bolsters with every bit of bombast, silliness and amusement in its use of violence to cohese an otherwise imperfect, but amusing tale about children. Such are who we meet in Mimi (Nita-Josee Hanna) and Luke (Owen Myre) who stumbles upon a glowing gem after a robust game of “crazyball” sees Luke digging a hole. The next day, a chance meeting occurs with a vicious alien being (Matthew Ninaber in costume, voiced by Steven Vlahos) eager to destroy everything in sight, except only he realizes he can’t – that is – the moment Mimi catches herself wielding control of the extraterrestrial. What follows is an oddball tale of adventure, about a burgeoning out-of-this-world friendship between […]