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From Drew Dietsch | Published
Since Grade The hit on the scene is that the world of fantasy in the cinema avoids so much joy of pulp that formed the genre in its boom. Caring realism became soup of the day and even more capricious fare Forces I couldn’t help, but he’s withdrawn by a serious business of all this.
Fortunately, two films in 2025 bring Pulp fantasy back in a way that reminds me why I love it most with fantasy stories. The first movie is a movie I have already checked Red Sonja. The second is the revival of iconic (and bad!) ’80. years with swords and sandal video store Staple, Deathstallker.
Red Sonja Revives the pulp of the imagination
If you want to see more complete thoughts you can click on the link Red SonjaBut as I mentioned in my review, it brought me back to the golden days of viewing the sections of the video shop and spending time in the “Fantasy” section. The tradition of fantasy pulp is time -recognized and makes sense Red Sonja It would bring back this kind of taste. After all, it is tangentially associated with the final film pulp of all time, Conan Barbarian.
It was nice to see Red Sonja Accept your nature with the Cartonians pulp with things like the mind -controlled giant Beasties and Mandrriors. Fantasy should be allowed to be ridiculous and comic books without feeling the need for stupid or disinfecting its content. It’s okay for fantasy to be violent and absurd! Which leads us Deathstallker.
Deathstallker Do not hold on
Original Deathstallker was one of the many Conan Barbarian Ripoffs who used the fantasy fantasy boom from the 80s. It was Roger Corman’s production, which created a number of continuation of different quality. And as I mentioned at the beginning of this article, the original Deathstallker It’s not a good movie! In fact both Deathstallker and Deathstallker and warriors from hell The treatment of riffs has been given Mystery Science Theater 3000.
This new version Deathstallker he released a trailer but is too rough for us to host him so you have to jump YouTube see it. Just say that the pulp fantasy hooray is a high form in this trailer. Add that Deathstallker is influenced by the director of Gonzo, who loves the effects of Stephen Kostanski (Psycho Goran) And it is more than obvious that there is a desire to go the whole pig with a wild vibration of classic fantasy pulp.
I did not expect 2025 to be a year when Cheesy entertaining fantasy would start to do a real comeback, but I’m more than happy to be surprised. I love the genre, but so I was not interested in realism that every genre had tuned. It’s nice to see the imagination of pulp in full force, and while both Red Sonja and Deathstallker It is unlikely that there will be huge hits in pop culture, it is refreshing to know that there are creative forces that try to bring fun back into fantasy movies.
