Yor, the Hunter from the Future
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 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 |
| Gross revenue | $2,810,199 (USA) |
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Yor, Hunter from the Future is a film released in 1983. It was directed by the famous Italian B-movie director Antonio Margheriti and starring Reb Brown. The setting is a mixture between prehistoric and futuristic, borrowing elements from numerous popular franchises of the time. It has a growing cult following, and has been released on DVD in Germany.
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[edit] Synopsis
The movie opens with Reb Brown 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 Pag are hunting. Suddenly, they are attacked by an animatronic triceratops. Yor appears out of nowhere and cracks the skull of the dinosaur. Yor is befriended by the village and joins in the feasting.
While Yor is there, a band of cavemen with blue skin attack the village. Only Yor and Pag escape. Yor immediately swears to get Kala back. Yor and Pag track the blue cavemen to their lair where Yor clubs a giant bat to death with a rock. He uses the dead bat like a hang glider to storm the lair and sneak out the back of the cave with Kala before flooding the cave.
Eventually, Yor (in an effort to discover his true origins), makes his way to an island surrounded by storms. There he discovers that his parents were from a small band of nuclear holocaust survivors. An evil man named the Overlord has taken control of the remaining nuclear technology with his android army.
[edit] Memorable Quotes
- Yor to alien communicator: "Damn talking box!"
- Pag to Kai: "I must retrieve my weapons from the cave with the mysterious object."
- Yor to Pag: "I don't recognize your laws!"
- Kala to Pag: "Why is Yor so different from other men?"
- Yor to Alien after she explains the medallion: "What do you mean you know all about me?"
- Yor: "Drinking the blood of our enemies gives us strength!" Reply: "Urgh… I prefer to stay weak then!"
[edit] Trivia
- The android designs are a fairly obvious take off of Darth Vader from the Star Wars series, and were reused costumes from an earlier film, Umanoide, L' (1979), which Margheriti had worked on in charge of special effects.
- Tracks from the film's Guido & Maurizio De Angelis soundtrack re-appeared in several other Italian sci-fi films of the period such as Predatori di Atlantide, I (1983), 2019, After the Fall of New York (1983), and Colpi di luce (1985).
[edit] Soundtrack
A soundtrack LP was released in 1983.
