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Category Archives: Based on Myths

April 15, 2014: The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)

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4 Comments Posted in Action, Adventure, Based on Myths, Movie of the Day, Period Film, Romance, Swashbuckler Tagged Best Art Direction, Best Film Editing, best music original dramatic score, Best Picture Nominee, Britain, choreography, Maid Marian, men in tights, Merry Men, Prince John, redistribution, Robin Hood, Sherwood Forest, swashbuckler, Tax Day

March 26th, 2014: The 13th Warrior (1999)

Mar26 by Max Roland Ekstrom

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1 Comment Posted in Action, Adventure, Based on a Book, Based on a Poem, Based on Myths, Fantasy, Sword and Sorcery, Uncategorized Tagged Antonio Banderas, Beowulf, Grendel, mead, myth, Persia, Vikings

December 30, 2013: Santa Claus (1959)

Dec29 by retrozombi

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Leave a comment Posted in Based on Myths, Comedy, Demons, Family, Fantasy, Holiday, Movie of the Day, So-Bad-It's-Good Tagged Christmas, Merlin, Mexico, poverty, Santa Claus, spoiled rich kids

September 17th, 2013: Der Golem, wie er in die Welt kam aka The Golem (1920)

Sep17 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in "Based on a True Story", "Foreign Film", Adaptation, Based on Myths, Black and White, Fantasy, German Expressionism, Horror, Mad Scientist, Monster, Movie of the Day, Period Film, Prequel, Silent Tagged Astaroth, deal with the devil, demon, Expressionism, Germany, ghetto, golem, lightning, Prague, Rabbi

August 23rd, 2013: Xanadu (1980)

Aug23 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Animation, Based on Myths, Event Film, Fantasy, Movie of the Day, Musical, Romance Tagged album covers, artists, Barry De Vorzon, Big Band, California, Classical Mythology, disco, Don Bluth, flashback, Gene Kelly, Joel Silver, live action combined with animation, Michael Beck, montage, murals, muse, nightclub, Olivia Newton-John, Robert Greenwald, roller disco, roller skating, Sandahl Bergman, Santa Monica, shopping montage, Swing, Wilfred Hyde-White, Zeus

September 23rd, 2012: Hercules (1983)

Sep23 by Professor Mortis

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1 Comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on Myths, Event Film, Fantasy, Movie of the Day, Robots, So-Bad-It's-Good, Stop Motion Animation, Sword and Sandals, Sword and Sorcery Tagged bad animation, bad narration, bad rear projection, bad special effects, bear, Cannon, cash-in, Classical Mythology, Drive-In, gods, Hercules, Italy, killer robots, Lou Ferigno, low-budget, Luigi Cozzi, Menahem Golan, quest, quotably bad dialogue, rip-off, Sybil Danning, terrible bear suit, Yoram Globus

July 30th, 2012: Hercules in New York aka Hercules Goes Bananas aka Hercules -The Movie aka

Jul30 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on Myths, Comedy, Fantasy, Fish-Out-of-Water, Independent, Movie of the Day, Slapstick, So-Bad-It's-Bad, So-Bad-It's-Good, Spoof, Sword and Sandals Tagged Arnold Schwarzenegger, Arnold Stang, before they were famous, Classical Mythology, Drive-In, father, father-son relationship, Hercules, James Karen, low-budget, Michael Lipton, mobsters, New York City, wicked stepmother, wrestler

April 2nd, 2012: Ponyo (2008)

Apr2 by Professor Mortis

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2 Comments Posted in "Foreign Film", Adaptation, Animation, Anime, Arthouse, Based on a Folk Tale, Based on a Short Story(ies), Based on Myths, Fairy Tale, Family, Fantasy, Movie of the Day Tagged Betty White, Cate Blanchett, Cloris Leachman, Disney, dubbed, fairy tale, Hans Christian Andersen, Hayao Miyazaki, Japan, Liam Neeson, Lily Tomlin, Matt Damon, Studio Ghibli, Tina Fey, Toho

October 5th, 2011: Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Oct5 by Professor Mortis

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1 Comment Posted in Adventure, Animation, Based on a TV Show, Based on Myths, Comedy, Fantasy, Independent, Movie of the Day, Musical, Period Film, Road Trip, Sketch, Slapstick, Spoof, Sword and Sorcery, The Original Tagged Britain, Carol Cleveland, Connie Booth, coward, EMI Films, Eric Idle, Graham Chapman, interrupted wedding, John Cleese, king, King Arthur, knights, low-budget, Michael Palin, Monty Python, Neil Innes, surreal, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones, wedding, witch

August 12th, 2011: Clash of the Titans (1981)

Aug12 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on Myths, Event Film, Fantasy, Kaiju, Monster, Movie of the Day, Stop Motion Animation, Sword and Sandals, The Original Tagged Athena, Britain, Burgess Meredith, Classical Mythology, gods, Greece, Harry Hamlin, Hephaestus, Kraken, Laurence Olivier, Maggie Smith, Medusa, MGM, oracles, Pegasus, Perseus, prophecy, Ray Harryhausen, Thetis, Ursula Andress, virgin sacrifice, wrath of the gods, Zeus

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