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The Scream Manufacturing plant double characteristic releases accept always been a lot of fun. They usually pair ii lesser films together that add up to create one stellar release. When I ranked my 5 favorite double feature Blu-ray releases in 2015, 3 Scream Factory titles made the cutting. 1 of those was their release of The Dungeonmaster and Eliminators.

The Dungeonmaster

I've had a weird relationship with The Dungeonmaster (Ragewar) over the years. The start time I saw it, I kind of hated information technology. I just couldn't get into it. I tried, but I felt bored by information technology and thought information technology was a missed opportunity. I finally got around to re-visiting it a few years after the first viewing and it completely flipped on me. I loved it. I'm not entirely sure what caused that modify, but my approximate is that I didn't focus on it enough the showtime time. And so when Scream Factory appear the Blu-ray release, I was excited to give it some other go.

Jeffrey Byron stars as Paul Bradford a computer programmer who invented Ten-CaliBR8, which is basically an early version of Apple's Siri. Paul uses Ten-CaliBR8 for everything, no matter how small or large. This causes some problems with Paul's girlfriend Gwen (Leslie Fly), who grows jealous of X-CaliBR8. This jealously is probably due to the fact that Paul chose to give the computer a female voice. Proficient task, Paul!

Paul is able to convince Gwen she has no reason to be jealous and things seem to exist working themselves out. This all changes one evening when Paul and Gwen are both transported to another realm, which is looks an atrocious lot like Hell. The person responsible for this transportation is a demon-like sorcerer named Mestema (Richard Moll). Mestema consider himself to be the most powerful wizard in the world and is looking for someone that poses a claiming. He catches wind of Paul and thinks Paul's use of technology is sorcery and that Paul's sorcery may really requite him a run for his money. Mestema challenges Paul to a series of battles with Gwen on the line.

The Dungeonmaster is an album, although I don't think anyone would pick upward on that if they weren't told. The story is broken down into 7 different segments, each 1 serving as a different battle between Paul and Mestema. Each segment is written and directed by a different person: Dave Allen, Charles Band, John Carl Buechler, Steven Ford, Peter Manoogian, Ted Nicolaou and Rosemarie Turko. Despite having 7 different artistic voices shaping one film, it all feels pretty cohesive. I don't think you can ever notice a modify in director, which I think works to the film's advantage.

This was a Charles Band production nether his Empire Pictures label and that's exactly what the movie feels similar. The movie has a lot of what y'all'd discover in other releases from Empire Pictures back in the solar day. The film looks cheap, only it's fun. At that place are some quality practical furnishings and some early utilise of reckoner generated stuff. What the film lacks in polish it more than makes up for in free energy. In that location'due south a score past Richard Ring, which was always mandatory. And there's at least 1 recognizable name/face, in this example Moll.

1 segment features the metal band W.A.S.P. and they actually serve a fairly big role in that segment's story. Not much to say near that, but I think it'due south worth noting.

I think the all-time thing about The Dungeonmaster is that it's pretty cutting edge. Forth with Evilspeak, this was the second moving-picture show from the early 80's that featured Moll in a role that used applied science in a mode seldom seen at the time. Like I said at the outset of my review, X-CaliBR8 is basically Siri. Paul is able to ask X-CaliBR8 any question at whatever time and she delivers an respond. That's pretty absurd stuff. I'grand still waiting on Siri to aid me shoot lasers and destroy monsters, only I'thou sure the fourth dimension is coming.

The Dungeonmaster is one of the few movies that I hated simply my opinion completely turned around after multiple viewings. I tin can't quite put my finger on what exactly caused the switch, but I'm glad it happened. It'south a fun movie. If y'all're into the old Empire films, you lot'll more than than probable dig this.

Rating: 3/5

Eliminators

Eliminators is a picture that I had never heard of, let lonely seen earlier this set up came out. Much like The Dungeonmaster information technology's another 80's Charles Band production from Empire Pictures. While I'd say The Dungeonmaster is the better motion-picture show, I recollect Eliminators is the better representation of what Band and Empire Pictures were all about.

Roy Dotrice plays an evil scientist named Abbott Reeves. Reeves rescued a pilot who crashed in S America and turned him into a half human, half machine known as Mandroid (Patrick Reynolds). Using a fourth dimension automobile he also invented, Reeves sends Mandroid back in time to do his bidding. After sending Mandroid dorsum to Rome to retrieve a Roman centurion shield, Reeves determines he no longer needs Mandroid and orders his assistant Takada (Tad Horino) to destroy him.

Takada is unable to do the job. He has a heart and knows under the motorcar in that location is even so a real human. Instead of killing Mandroid, Takada helps him escape and advises him to locate scientist Colonel Nora Hunter (Denise Crosby), a former associate of Reeves. During the escape Takada is killed but Mandroid makes information technology out and begins his journey.

Mandroid somewhen finds Hunter and the 2 team upward with Harry Fontanta (Andrew Pine), a riverboat captain, and Kuji (Conan Lee), a ninja and son of Takada. Together they form the Eliminators and head out to end the evil Reeves!

Eliminators is not nifty. It just isn't. It's a very cheap, inexpensive looking flick. Mandroid especially looks bad. His robotic costume looks like the cheapest plastic you could ever find. The film besides features one of the worst boat races you'll ever run into. Information technology's supposed to be high speed, I think, but information technology's not. It all looks so ridiculous. Notwithstanding that'south function of the Empire charm! Despite what they have to work with, anybody simply goes with it. Nobody involved in the film is being deterred past effects and props that look like crap. They're rolling with it, full speed! This definitely isn't something for everybody, but I kind of honey information technology. So even though I'm only going to requite information technology a two.5 out of 5, I totally retrieve information technology'south fun and worth watching.

Rating: 2.5/5

Overall both these movies may just be and so-and then at all-time. With that said they remind me of the fun Charles Band productions used to be. They never let their limitations agree them back. These days, I don't think you can say that nigh the new stuff coming from Band. And that really bums me out. Fortunately, nosotros have these older Empire Pictures releases to remind u.s. of the better days.

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