Take a Progressive Rock Soundtrack & a plot that steals from Star Wars & Superman. And you have Hawk The Slayer. Actually the name is not well thought out as he roams the land devoted to peace but defending the weak, only fighting when necessary. The back story is Hawk & Voltan are brothers. Voltan was away at a war, his woman fell for Hawk, he's bitter. She never loved Voltan and burns his face with a flaming torch. She tries to flee with Hawk and Voltan shoots her in the back.
Few goofs there already. She had ample opportunity to kill Voltan when he was on the floor before she freed Hawk, and Hawk could have easily killed Voltan here as well. Also if she'd just sat down in the boat, Voltan would have never killed her. So we already destroyed the plot, what little there was of it.
Basically Voltan then goes on to kill his father and become a dark power over the land. It's starting to sound like Star Wars already. Couple that with the metal Darth Vader like helmet and the witch who cures him looking like Palpatine and it's so Star Wars it's unreal. They stole the lighted spinning hoops from Superman, and Bernard Bresslaw basically will go on to play an almost identical role in the movie Krull 3 years later.
This film is a fantasy romp, slavers, bad men, nuns who betray hero's. Nice cameos by Roy Kinner and Annette Crosbie. The film is really bad but very easy to watch, it left room for a second part but no-one would dare these days. Or would they?
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