Friday, May 22, 2015

Land of the Minatour (1976)

Land of the Minotaur aka The Devils Men is a Greek horror film saved from being nigh unto un-watchable by its producers ability to afford casting Donald Pleasence and Peter Cushing. Pleasence plays Father Roche, an Irish priest and expert on world religions who befriends young archaeologist working near his home in Greece. Unfortunately these young archaeologists keep disappearing so Roche eventually brings in a private detective he knows from New York (the Fathers just happening to know a private detective from New York is briefly explained so I will give the film credit for that) to help him investigate. Turns out the young archaeologist are being sacrificed as part of a pagan cult run by a Bulgarian baron in exile played by Peter Cushing. There is also a fire breathing Minotaur statue in this film as well as Luan Peters legs, not a lot else to say for it though, it's strangely slow in places. **

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