The Beastmaster
Giants, fairies, magicians, ghosts, dragons, and monsters of all kinds… Here’s what your Cinémathèque has in store this summer! Since Méliès, filmmakers have embraced the fanstastic potential of cinema, creating infinite phantasmagorias and extraordinary spectacles where the unreal becomes real. Step into a world of fantasy and boundless imagination: whatever your generation, the monsters and wonders that once filled your childhood dreams are back this summer 2025!
Dar, a prince prophesied to defeat the tyrant Maax, is saved from sacrifice by a villager who raises him as his own son. When his village is destroyed by the tyrant, Dar decides to take revenge and joins forces with animals to whom he speaks telepathically. Based on a novel by Andre Alice Norton and released at almost the same time as Conan (with which it shares a half-humorous, half-horrific tone, demented looks and a memorable soundtrack), Coscarelli's (Phantasm) film is a weird movie like only the 1980s could produce: kitsch and cult.
Don Coscarelli
Don Coscarelli is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. At the age of 19, he became the youngest director to have a feature film distributed by a major studio when he sold his independently produced drama Jim the World's Greatest (1976), to Universal Pictures. The film was the first collaboration for Coscarelli with actor Lawrence Rory Guy, who went on to achieve horror icon status under the screen name Angus Scrimm. Coscarelli is best known for his work in horror films. His directing credits include the first four films in the Phantasm franchise (1979-98), as well as The Beastmaster (1982) and Bubba Ho-Tep (2002).
