{"id":52275,"date":"2019-10-10T06:00:47","date_gmt":"2019-10-10T06:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.spookyisles.com\/?p=52275"},"modified":"2022-03-12T16:29:26","modified_gmt":"2022-03-12T16:29:26","slug":"land-of-the-minotaur-1976-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spookyisles.com\/land-of-the-minotaur-1976-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Land of the Minotaur 1976 REVIEW"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Land of the Minotaur 1976 – once called ‘Peter Cushing’s worst film’ – is reviewed by DAVID SAUNDERSON<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Minotaur as in the title, Land of the Minotaur 1976<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

TITLE: Land of the Minotaur AKA The Devil’s Men
RELEASED: 1976
DIRECTOR: Kostas Karagiannis
CAST: Donald Pleasence, Peter Cushing, Luan Peters, Kostas Karagiannis<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Land of the Minotaur Review<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Land of the Minotaur is described as “Peter Cushing’s worst movie” by American film critic Roger Ebert.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ve not seen all of Peter Cushing’s films, though I’m not sure he’s wrong. Land of the Minotaur is a stinker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That being said, it’s always enjoyable to watch Peter Cusing and Donald Pleasence in any film. So I do not regret picking Land of the Minotaur to celebrate Donald Pleasence’s 100th birthday this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Land of the Minatour is an attempt at Greek folk horror. You could easily call it a mix of The Wicker Man<\/a>, The Devil Rides Out<\/a>, a bit of The Witches<\/a>, and maybe even Dracula<\/a>. Chuck in the Ernest Borgnine from The Devil’s Rain and you get a bit of an idea of how derivative this film is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Donald Pleasence stars as Father Roche, a Irish priest living in Greece, who has befriended young people visiting from across the world. He warns them to stay away from the ‘evil’ archeological sites the area for which the area is noted. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But, of course, they can’t stop themselves and end up missing, and Father Roche has to go save them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Land of the Minotaur Poster – the tag line definitely oversells it<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Peter Cushing turns up as a Carpathian nobleman, Baron Corofax, who explains that he’s in exile from from his homeland, hence why he is living in Greece. We discover that the Baron is the head of a cult worshiping the Minotaur, the mythical half-man, half-bull monster, from Ancient Greece. <\/p>

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