Best thing you'll see since you were a 10-year-old playing D&D: Hawk the Slayer

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Of course, you can’t talk about Ladyhawke without talking about the soundtrack. It is officially by Andrew Powell, but I think of it as an Alan Parsons Project album. I unironically love it, I used to have it on cassette tape and listened to it endlessly. But it’s hard to deny that it is pretty much completely inappropriate for the movie. So that puts a lot of people off of Ladyhawke completely.

I think Ladyhawke is great; Broderick is funny, Hauer is grim, Pfeiffer is sad and mysterious, John Wood is sinister. The script is great, it has a wonderful symmetry to it, even if the ending is a bit trite.

But now let’s talk about Flesh & Blood. This is the movie that started a lifelong obsession with Jennifer Jason Leigh, who, as far as I am concerned can do no wrong, so shut up! This movie is so over-the-top bonkers crazy (as you would expect from a Veerhoven film). The plague dogs! The crazy inventions! It’s just brutal and dirty and awesome.

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I haven’t seen Soldier of Orange, but Flesh and Blood is not junk. It is visceral and stunning and unremittingly dark and disturbing at times, though.

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Just scouring the internet for references towards Hawk the Slayer, in a bid to draw more attention to the new audio version now in production. I know, very cheeky, but its got 2 weeks to go on Kickstarter, and as a Hawk fan I cannot rest until I’ve done all I can to help bring this world back to life. <3 :)

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I wish I was still 10 and could appreciate a movie like this.

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Somehow missed this thread at the time, and the film, for that matter. Just a little before my time. Anyway, it’s on a recent Flop House and I’m watching it at last.

Edit: Oh, man, the subtitles are amazing: “[Lots of screaming and agony]”

Edit 2: I love this movie’s obsession with rapid-fire arrows/crossbow bolts. Eat your heart out, Len Wiseman.

Edit 3: WTF is with the sound effects in the finale? Half WWII submachine guns and half sci-fi lasers. In a fantasy movie. And there’s a blizzard for some reason?

Edit 4: Quality credits, too: “Woman”. Yeah, this film isn’t passing the Bechdel test.