The Beastmaster

A whole lotta animals, and humans bearing close resemblance to them, make up this movie. Not surprisingly, it is called The Beastmaster.

This movie is a big screen adaptation of a novel by Andrew Norton. Boy! What a mess it is! First the king of Arrok, Zed, exiles the High Priest Maax (Rip Torn). Maax’s witches prophesise that Zed’s son would kill him. Out to prove them wrong, Maax attempts to slay the infant, Dar. Somehow, the latter is saved and adopted by a passerby.

Then some 20 years later, Maax and the Jun horde (a tribe of monsters) raze their village, and Dar....