20 Recent Horror Movies WAY Better Than Expected
10. Deathstalker
The one benefit of remaking a terrible movie is that there's basically nowhere to go but up, as was certainly the case with the recent remake of the woeful 1983 trash classic Deathstalker.
Even accepting this as a very loose remake, it takes the sword-and-sorcery derring-do of the original and basically injects it with steroids, courtesy of cult filmmaker Steven Kostanski (Psycho Goreman).
Sure, the story is a total nothingburger, but it's clear that Kostanski and his team invested all their effort in the fantastic practical makeup and gore effects, which are nothing short of sublime.
Though clearly not made for a big, fat studio price tag, Deathstalker looks great, and top of this offers up a welcome leading role for criminally underrated actor-slash-martial artist Daniel Bernhardt.
It's easy to see a reality where the Deathstalker remake struggled to justify its own existence, but thankfully it did so through its commitment to good old-fashioned gooey mayhem.