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The Beastmaster
1982 · Film · 118 min
Directed by Don Coscarelli
Dar, the son of a king, is hunted by a priest after his birth and grows up in another family. When he becomes a grown man, his new father is murdered by savages and he discovers that he has the ability to communicate with animals, which leads him on a quest for revenge against his father's killers.
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>> Or perhaps the word "glaive", to mean a thrown multi-bladed spinning weapon? I believe from Warcraft.
No no, Krull (1983):
Colwyn is found and nursed by Ynyr, the Old One. Ynyr tells Colwyn that the Beast can be defeated with the Glaive, an ancient, magical, five-pointed throwing star.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krull_(film)
Incidentally, Krull is like many other fantasy films of that era (there was a bit of a trend at the time, it appears) that are very much like (some) D&D scenarios: the plot is essentially a string of little vignettes in each of which the good guys confront some terrible enemy and defeat it, culminating to a big boss fight at the end. Frex, Conan the Barbarian (1982) is very much like that, as is The Beastmaster (1982).
I was watching The Beastmaster on Prime and commented this to my girlfriend as we watched it. It’s a great movie from the 80s that of course has some sex and nudity. Hollywood is completely terrified of sex and nudity now. It alters people’s brains in ways we don’t understand I think. We still hold what we see on the silver screen as a cultural reference point. There’s nothing dirty or wrong about the human body or sex but if you never see it on the big screen you might start thinking that way.
Of course they can. Didn't you see The Beastmaster? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083630/
It sounds like the beginning to one of those 80ies barbarian movies (I'm thinking of The Beastmaster, which is a must-see):
"On the 10th day, the Omen foretold the coming Prophecy that the Evil Emperor would be slain by a Child born under the Star of the Omen"