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Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0097360136746
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Paramount
Manufacturer: Paramount
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Paramount
Region Code: 1
Release Date: October 21, 2003
Running Time: 109 minutes
Sales Rank: 4269
Studio: Paramount
Theatrical Release Date: June 26, 1981
Editorial Review:
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Despite its box-office failure in 1981, Dragonslayer was gradually recognized as one of the finest fantasies to emerge from the post-Star Wars boom in special effects. It's still one of the best adventures of its kind, featuring one of the most fearsome fire-breathing serpents in movie history. Ominously named Vermithrax Pejorative, this ill-tempered monster terrorizes the peasantry of sixth-century England, feeding on maidens sacrificed by a duplicitous king until a sorcerer's apprentice named Galen (Peter MacNicol, long before Ally McBeal) is recruited as a reluctant hero. Aided by a tenacious beauty (Caitlin Clarke) and his resurrected mentor (Ralph Richardson), Galen confronts the soaring beast in a breathtaking climax. Employing a then-innovative technique called Go-Motion to animate the dragon, the special effects are still dazzling, and stunning locations in Scotland and Wales allow director Matthew Robbins (cowriter of Steven Spielberg's feature debut, The Sugarland Express) to maintain a vivid atmosphere for the wealth of movie magic. --Jeff Shannon
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Decent for the decade, but a little dated...
I read a lot of the reviews on the site before I actually bought this movie. I have to say that it isn't the best dragon movie out there, but the dragon is definitely a pretty awesome thing to see. The detail in the skin and its clawed feet is just amazing. The story was not worked on in as much detail. While it is a simple and easy to follow plot, the movie didn't capture me as much as the visuals of the dragon itself did. I definitely enjoyed the movie more than my fiance did, but it's really not ... Read More
Rating:  - First of it's kind
When this movie was produced we were still in the age of godzilla where it was obvious the monster was a man in a suit wrecking havoc in a minature seaside town with bath tub "ocean" waves. The dragon is Dragonslayer was the first computer generated image laid against a backdrop of a real landscape complete with up close human interaction. A super-sized monster that you could easily imagine burning down the strip mall down the street. I've been in awe ever since.
Rating:  - If you loved 'The Lord of the Rings'.........
LOTR fans will plug right in to this 1981 film!
Here we have sorcerers, dragons, rotten old kings, and VIRGINS (to be sacrificed!) *.*
A very Dark Ages village must periodically sacrifice one of its beautiful young virgins to a local trouble-making dragon. The King conducts a lottery, as needed, in the village to determine who the unlucky gal is to be for each sacrifice.
An assemblage of the locals gets damned tired of this process and so they travel to the castle ... Read More
Rating: - I just wish we had a horse......
"Dragonslayer" has become THE dragon film within the genre. There was "Reign of Fire", but there existed too many inconsistencies to make the film great. "Dragonslayer" does not go outside of the legends associated with the myth. I do not count films like "Dragonheart" and "Eragon", as dragons (within the mythical representations) do not speak. While both latter films could be considered suitable for children, the myth is much too sinister, and there also exist the references to evil and the domain of Hell. ... Read More
Rating:  - Only the virgin lottery is fun
Dragonslayer might sound like a film involving barbarians and knights taking on a fire breathing monstrosity... instead you get a young jolly magician with a crystal stone who buffoons about the place like a court jester, dates a boy-girl (yes) and takes on an iguana with wings glued onto it.
The only good part is that the local village has a virgin lottery to decide which dame is going to get sacrificed to the dragon so that they can live peacefully that year. There are certainly not enough dragons ... Read More
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