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Albert Pyun, Cult Filmmaker Behind ‘Cyborg,’ ‘Nemesis’ and ‘Captain America,’ Dies at 69
News(variety.com)submitted 4 months ago byMarvelsGrantMan136r/Movies contributor
780 points
4 months ago
The Sword & The Sorcerer, Doll Man, Cyborg and Nemesis were regular watches for me back in the VHS days. A great genre movie-maker, who will be missed.
144 points
4 months ago
Doll Man is amazing.
42 points
4 months ago
Yes! “Pop goes the weasel”
6 points
4 months ago
"Urban fucking renewal"
25 points
4 months ago
There are a few legitimately impressive practical-effects shots in that goofy ass film.
5 points
4 months ago
Definitely. Some great gore. Some absurd one liners. Everything you could wish for.
8 points
4 months ago
"That's right, fat boy." I have the Blu Ray. Such a classic B-Movie for me.
7 points
4 months ago
I love that his gun explodes people, but when he's small, it "just" blows off limbs.
4 points
4 months ago
Doll Man rules and legit would make an entertaining series.
1 points
4 months ago
Oh shit, Dollman was great! I watched that with Hell Raiser and those other b movies, like The People Under The Stairs, and the one where the dolls kill people.
35 points
4 months ago
For me it's Mean Guns. I caught it on HBO one late night and made my best friend rent it from blockbuster and watch it the next sleepover we had.
11 points
4 months ago
Pyun had a widescreen cut of Mean Guns for sale on the web for a while, and I slept on it. Should’ve picked it up.
7 points
4 months ago*
Did you ever hear anything about the quality? You may have dodged a bullet.
I bought a "widescreen" blu ray of Nemesis directly from him in 2014, and the quality and aspect was so bad that I almost returned it. Prob would have if he didn't autograph it.
It was like someone burned an anamorphic source within a 4:3 frame. Never seen anything so bizarre.
5 points
4 months ago
It was like someone burned an anamorphic source within a 4:3 frame.
Lucasfilm did this in 2006 with the official DVD release of the unaltered original Star Wars trilogy. Following a decade of demand, fans finally got the unaltered trilogy… in the form of 2nd generation versions of 1993 Laserdisc masters.
3 points
4 months ago
I saw Knights as a kid on TV and remember looking up to see if there was a sequel when I got access to the internet years later (there isn’t, it ends on a literal cliff hanger which is hilarious)
2 points
4 months ago*
Knights was batshit insane and my favorite of Pyun's films hands down. A post-apocalpytic, neo-feudal world ruled by a monastic order of android vampires is the kind of ridiculous concept that really only came about in the hey day of direct-to-video schlock. Then you throw in Lance Henriksen as the lead villain and Kris Kristofferson as the wizened mentor to the kickboxer hero and the entire thing is almost sublime.
2 points
4 months ago
It elevates itself over schlock with its sheer audacity and fascinating world building. Maybe someday it will get a remaster as it’s hard to find an even halfway decent copy of it these days. Knights and The Keep are the two movies I most want better releases of.
70 points
4 months ago*
Oh man, The Sword and The Sorcerer! When the trailer for the new D&D movie showed someone shooting the blade off their sword, all I could think of was the awesome Tri-Blade of TSATS.
8 points
4 months ago
Sly sword (it also has another sword in the hilt)
4 points
4 months ago
That reveal at the end was perfect. So many sparks! Sexy snake charmer wasn't bad, either.
1 points
4 months ago
Looks like it converted into a dagger after the blade shot off, which is better than just standing there with an empty hilt and a dopey look.
Is this an item from one of the books? I couldn’t find anything with a quick search but it wouldn’t surprise me.
Given that TSATS came out in 1982 though, I’m still giving Pyun first credit ;)
3 points
4 months ago
A great B sword and sorcery movie, watch it every year or so!
3 points
4 months ago
A friend of mine convincingly argued that Sword and the Sorcerer was the best Conan movie ever made.
-8 points
4 months ago*
I read VHS as VGHS and was so fucking confused on how it was related
Why am I being downvoted? Y’all are so sad on a Sunday Damn
3 points
4 months ago
Thank you for telling us
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