Imagine, if you will, LARPers — Live Action Role Playing — but on a much larger scale, filmed by video camera, fuzzy drained video colors coalescing to give us wanderers with walking sticks in the woods, primitive video effects in the place of computer generation magic and best of all, everyone is so serious about it. Like, serious enough to get out amongst the jagger bushes and mosquitos in a loin cloth of all things. You ever pore over that old Monster Manual and have a Hook Horror LJN figure? Then you’re going to get this. Maybe you’d like to see ladies in Renaissance Faire garb sword fight one another in the hometown of William Burroughs, possibly behind a mall? Do you like dialogue like, “Do mine eyes deceive me or is it Shan-Ra?” And people bowing and saying, “My lady, I beseech you for protection?” This is that movie.
Song of the Sword (1986) is a fantasy and action film directed by J. Stanley Haehl, released on June 15, 1986 with a runtime of 1h 57m. It stars Ry Brown, Maria Anthony, Clark Jamison and Mitch Barr.
Directed by J. Stanley Haehl, written by Ry Brown and Maria Anthony, produced by Ry Brown, Maria Anthony and Clark Jamison.
There’s a place down by the Pittsburgh Zoo where the USS Potemkin (a Star Trek fan club) used to volunteer to clean the road in costume, where firefighters burn a fake building for practice, the Shuman Center used to hold the worst yinzer teenagers and the Society for Creative Anachronism would do fake swordfights. For some time, if you looked this place up on Google maps street view, you’d see this microcosm all…
Reviewed on January 23, 2023
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The main cast of Song of the Sword (1986) includes Ry Brown, Maria Anthony, Clark Jamison, Mitch Barr and Dody Sankpill. The film was directed by J. Stanley Haehl. You can see the full cast and crew list, with character names, further up this page.
Song of the Sword was released on June 15, 1986 and runs for 1h 57m.