By Drew Dietsch | publishing
Since then Game of Thrones On the scene, it feels like the fantasy world in the movie has avoided so much pulp joy that constitutes the genre of its heyday. Tough realism becomes the soup of the day, even more whimsical tickets Strength Ring I can’t help but be turned away by all this serious business.
Thankfully, the two 2025 movies brought pulp fantasy back in a way that reminds me of why I like the most fantasy stories. The first movie is a movie I have reviewed. Red Sonja. Another is the iconic (and bad!) revival of the 80s, Deathstalker.
Red Sonja Reviving pulp fantasy
If you want to see more about links, you can click on the link above Red Sonjabut as I mentioned in the comments, it brought me back to the Golden Day of perusing the video store section and spent a lot of time in the “Fantasy” section. The tradition of pulp fantasy is a long-standing and famous tradition, which makes sense Red Sonja Will bring back this flavor. After all, it is tangent to the ultimate pulp fantasy movie ever, Conan Barbarian.
Very happy to see Red Sonja Embrace the essence of its cartoon fantasy by the mind-controlled giant beasts and Mandrill Warriors. Fantasy should be allowed to be absurd and comic books without having to feel stupid or sanitize their content. Fantasy is violent and ridiculous! This leads us Deathstalker.
Deathstalker Don’t retreat
original Deathstalker There are many Conan Barbarian Take advantage of the pulp of fantasy of prosperity to dream of the rips of the 1980s. This is a production of Roger Corman, resulting in many sequels of different qualities. Like the original one I mentioned at the beginning of this article Deathstalker Not a good movie! Actually, these two Deathstalker and Death spreader and the warrior of hell Received improvisational treatment Mysterious Science Theater 3000.
This new version Deathstalker A trailer has been posted, but we’re too clumsy to host it here so you have to jump to YouTube to see it. It can be said that the cheers of pulp fantasy are high in that trailer. Add the following facts Deathstalker Leadership of the director of the gossip and fun director Stephen Kostanski (Psycho Goreman), it is obvious that there is a desire to be with the fanaticism of classic pulp fantasy.
I didn’t expect 2025 to be the year when the cheesy Fun Fantasy started to make a real comeback, but I was happy to be surprised. I like this genre, but I feel uninterested in every genre of realism. It’s great to see pulp fantasy full of power, and both Red Sonja and Deathstalker It’s unlikely to be a huge hit in pop culture, and it’s refreshing to know there’s creative power out there trying to bring back fantasy movies.
