

Hawk the Slayer
Beyond the edge of darkness there is a world of sword and sorcery.
Hawk the Slayer, after seeing both his father and bride die at the hands of his malevolent brother, Voltan, sets out for revenge and the chance to live up to his title. Tooling himself up with the "mind-sword" and recruiting a motley band of warriors — a giant, a dwarf, a one-armed man with a machine-crossbow, and an elf with the fastest bow in the land — Hawk leads the battle against Voltan to free the land from the forces of evil and avenge his loved ones.
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- English
- dwarf
- magic
- sword
- slavery
- sorcery
- crossbow
- sorceress
- sword and sorcery
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United StatesUS
- TheatricalPG21 Dec 1980
United KingdomGB
- Theatrical (limited)PG27 Aug 1980
- Theatrical18 Dec 1980
- Theatrical (limited)Film4 FrightFest30 Aug 2015
FranceFR
- PremiereParis Fantastic Film Festival (the exact day is not known)1 Nov 1980
GermanyDE
- TV1222 May 1988
North KoreaKP
- Theatrical1 Jan 2012
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Hawk the Slayer was released on 27 August 1980.
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CinemaSerf
1/24/2025
There were an whole slew of these fantasy adventures made in the late 1970s but this one has to be the weakest, despite the presence of Jack Palance as the half decent baddie "Voltan". He's a nasty piece of work who has killed both his dad and his brother's girlfriend and so unsurprisingly, his sibling "Hawk" (John Terry) is out for blood. That's not going to be easy as he will be facing overwhelming odds and more th…
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