Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #21850 in DVD
• Released on: 1999-11-15
• Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: PAL
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 113 minutes

Special Features
English
Region 0
Dolby Stereo English
Dolby Stereo
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Directors Cut
Digitally Remastered

Synopsis
A heroic slave girl and a barbarian warrior face the intimidating dangers of a wild and primitive world, including a race of cannibalistic Bat-Men, and a battle against a fiendish cult and it's demonic leader.

Customer Reviews

A brilliant film gets a dreadful UK release
Why is Amazon displaying the same reviews for the region 1 and 2 version of this film. The region 1 version (blue cover) totally outclasses the region 2 version (white cover)!!

First let me say I absolutely love this film, and I'd give it an easy 5 star review. However this review is for the region 2 version (white cover).

I suppose this is the one for me to review, seeing as how I'm from the UK.

Sadly this version is truely awful!!

First off, the sound and picture quality is crap. There's no way this is 'digitally mastered'.

Secondly, the overall presentation is poor, no special features in sight. As if they couldn't be bothered to make an effort for this package. They didn't even add the original trailor, something which even the old VHS had!

The wide screen presentation is also false, all they've done is took the full frame version and squashed it down to look wide screen. As a result the faces of the actors look rugby ball shaped and their bodies look short 'n' fat!

If you want a decent version of this film go for the region 1 version as it has excellent picture and sound quality, great special features, a true wide screen presentation and even a production booklet.

I hope that in the future, the powers that be will re-release this classic film as a decent region 2 version. But for now, like I said go for region 1.

Overall = 2 stars (Region 2) but a definate 5 stars (Region 1).

*** Beastmaster ***
As mentioned in previous reviews I too first watched this years ago and the chance to see & own it on DVD Directors Cut had to happen!
Most people I know don't actually like it, whether it's because people now subconsciously size every fantasy movie up to The Lord of the Rings or whether it had to be watched when you were younger I do not know but I love this film regardless. Here we see a fantasy movie a bit different from the rest, the main warrior/hero being a tad more 'human' than the usual muscle-bound idiot and obviously the animals used in the film add a new layer too (as they can't have been easy to work with).

As someone said though it is "Digitally Remastered", they could have done allot more in the way of cleaning this classic film up, sound is ok but there is visible marks and blips that appear from time to time throughout that aren't a major problem but as I say it would do it justice if it was remastered properly. Who knows maybe more people would respect this underrated fantasy flick more? As well as this some extras wouldn't have gone amiss.

But seriously, if you like your sword & sorcery/fantasy films like Willow, Krull, Ladyhawk, Red Sonja and Conan (as well as loads of others) you can't go wrong! Give it a go, it's cheap enough on Amazon :)

Silly sword n'sorcery romp but its eniticing nonetheless.
Beastmaster is not a work of art. Its full of continuity gaffs for a start, but the writer is under no illusion as to what sword n'sorcery is about : sword fights, magic, nubile women and good versus evil. The plot, such as it is, concerns warrior Dar embarking on a quest for revenge which leads him into a confrontation with the Jun horde. Invariably this means attacking everything he meets with his sword, albeit aided by two ferrets, a black panther and eagle. I'd recommend Beastmaster to any fan of swords and sorcery. Okay, so its a little childish, but on a comic book level its quite exciting.