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What's the deal?

posted 8 years ago by Tiberius27-1
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I just finished this travesty of a sequel that looks like it was edited by a drunken monkey with ADHD for the first time and after watching the abysmal main feature I watched the behind the scenes with the cast & crew extra on the dvd in an attempt to find out what went wrong. The first thing that I noticed (Aside from the fact that the behind the scenes featurette seems longer than the film itself) is that it looks like for some reason Michael Pare' (Easily the best thing in the film other than the all too brief cameo by Lee Horsely himself as Talon the hero of the original "The Sword & The Sorcerer") seems to have had all of his scenes as the younger version of the new hero who unwittingly sires a line of vampires replaced by another actor. Pare' is now in the film only as the old silver haired version of that same character and I'm wondering why they cut out so much of the best thing going for this train wreck. Anyone know?

"Be nice until it's time to NOT be nice."

[–] utility_infielder 8 years ago

I would LOVE to know what happened with this project. It's genuinely terrible. Almost unwatchable.

Pyun and his "team" seem to be an odd group of folks. Constantly adding movies to IMDB that may or not be in the works or ever completed, and shooting so much of his movies on a green screen seems to a super-cheap cop-out (and cash grab) rather than an artistic choice, which is what I'd imagine he'd say it is.