Yor, the Hunter from the Future
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.jpg) Movie poster for Yor, the Hunter from the Future |
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| Directed by | Anthony M. Dawson |
| Produced by | Michele Marsala |
| Written by | Ray Collins and Juan Zanotto (graphic novel "Henga, el cazador") Robert D. Bailey and Anthony M. Dawson (screenplay) |
| Starring | Reb Brown Corinne Clery John Steiner Carole André Luciano Pigozzi Ayshe Gul Aytekin Akkaya Marina Rocchi Sergio Nicolai Ludovico Della Jojo |
| Music by | Guido De Angelis Maurizio De Angelis John Scott |
| Cinematography | Marcello Masciocchi |
| Editing by | Alberto Moriani Giorgio Serrallonga |
| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
| Release date(s) | August 19, 1983 (USA) |
| Running time | 88 min |
| Country | Italy/France/Turkey |
| Language | English |
| Budget | Unknown |
| Box office | $2,810,199 (USA) |
Yor, the Hunter From The Future is a film released in 1983. It was directed by the famous Italian B-movie director Antonio Margheriti (also known as Anthony M. Dawson) and starring Reb Brown, and was pieced together from a 4-part science-fiction miniseries shown on Italian television.[1]
The setting is a mixture between prehistoric and futuristic, borrowing elements from numerous popular franchises of the time. It has been released on DVD in Germany.
The film is listed in the The 100 Most Enjoyably Bad Movies Ever Made in Golden Raspberry Award founder John Wilson's book The Official Razzie Movie Guide.[2] It was also nominated for three 1983 Golden Raspberry Awards: Worst New Star (Reb Brown), Worst Musical Score and Worst Original Song ("Yor's World").
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[edit] Synopsis
The movie opens with Reb Brown, as Yor, jogging around the stone towers of Cappadocia, Turkey while a rock ballad plays in the background. In a nearby village, Kala, a seemingly primitive cave-woman, and her older protector Pak are hunting. Suddenly, they are attacked by a Stego-Ceratops. Yor appears apparently from nowhere and kills the dinosaur with his axe, drinking some of its blood immediately afterwards. Yor is befriended by the village and together they cut the choice meats to be feasted upon in a celebration.
While Yor is there, a band of cavemen with bluish skin attack the village. Only Yor and Pak escape. Yor immediately swears to get Kala back. Yor and Pak track the blue cavemen to their lair where Yor shoots a giant bat with his bow and arrow. He uses the dead bat like a hang glider to storm the lair and charge out the back of the cave with Kala after flooding sections of the cave, accidentally killing everyone inside, committing double genocide upon the villagers and the species of the blue cavemen.
Kala and Pak decide to follow Yor in his adventure to find his origins. Along the way, they find a mysterious society of sand mummies, led by a blonde woman with an amulet similar to Yor's.
Eventually, Yor and company make their way to an island surrounded by storms. There Yor discovers that his parents were from a small band of nuclear holocaust survivors, revealing the 'twist' that Yor's world is actually Earth after that nuclear holocaust, with the radiation apparently having somehow resurrected dinosaurs (this despite the title of the film already stating that this story takes place in the future). An evil man called the Overlord has taken control of the remaining nuclear technology with his android army. Yor then starts a battle with the Overlord and his android army. Yor defeats the Overlord's forces with help from Pak and Kala, then flies off into the distance with one of the Overlord's spacecraft, even as the Overlord's facility is in a state of self-destruction. Before the movie ends, the narrator proclaims, "Yor returns to the primitive tribes on the mainland. He is determined to use his superior knowledge to prevent them making the same mistakes as their forefathers. Will he succeed?"
[edit] Home media
A remastered expanded Yor, the Hunter from the Future soundtrack CD on the BSX label was released in 2011.
A Region 1 remastered widescreen DVD from Sony on-demand was released on September 6, 2011.
