(Welcome to The Daily Stream, an ongoing series in which the /Film team shares what they’ve been watching, why it’s worth checking out, and where you can stream it.)The Movie: “The Beastmaster” (1982)Where You Can Stream It: Amazon PrimeThe Pitch: Family entertainment was a bit of a different beast in the ’80s, no pun intended.
The movies aimed at kids, like “Gremlins” and “The Neverending Story” and “Return to Oz” and even Disney’s “The Black Cauldron” were spooky, if not straight-up traumatizing.
Then you have the nightmare-inducers like today’s title, “The Beastmaster,” which is inexplicably rated PG…The post The Daily Stream: The Beastmaster Remains the Scrappy, Weird Alternative to Conan the Barbarian appeared first on /Film.
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