18 thoughts on “TBT: Knightriders (1981)

  1. I’m a LARPer (fantasy medieval); I can’t judge other people for their potentially ridiculous hobbies. 😅

    1. Ah, Bad Medievaloid Films! I love them! My quest is for a long-ago movie that enchanted my history-buff father: it contained a scene in which a messenger dashes in and cries out “Sire, sire, the Hundred Year’s War has just broken out!”

      Does this ring bells in anyone’s memory?

  2. I’m amused at the codpiece photo, as well as the package in the photo with the purple flags.

    They make me make me curious. How many movies and TV shows set out to visually please those attracted to men? How have approaches changed between say, Knightriders and now?

  3. I thought it was, well, an — interesting — idea. Be glad it was Romero’s zombie movie that started a trend. A bad one, but… I could buy it all but the ending, which seemed completely arbitrary. Interestingly enough, the whole Arthurian legend played out here when one king’s squire ended up with the king’s wife.

  4. This sounds totally banana crackers and therefore I NEED to watch it now!

  5. honestly, I thought that I’d imagined that film, that and the series of books about women who had sex with thier horses in order to produce offspring

  6. I was at the original SCA event that “inspired” this movie. George Romero was there too, since it was near his bailiwick, Pittsburgh. It was a crown tournament and one of the finalists cheated and was thrown out. That made him mad enough to start his own medieval group. The actor playing “Morgan” looks remarkedly like the fighter who was tossed.

  7. The codpiece photo should not be viewed when you’re eating peanut butter pretzels.

  8. This film is on my short list of “movies you’ll never understand the SCA without seeing.”

    “For the Crown! The Crown lives forever!”

  9. I had avoided watching this movie because… well because. But I guess I must watch it. Pray for me.

  10. For the longest time, I thought had hallucinated this movie, or at least conjured up a few tasteful nude scenes of a young, gorgeous Ed Harris but eventually I came across it in a video rental store (remember those) and have been in love with this utterly bonkers movie every since.

    There is a female motorcyclist knight character who is a great fun.

  11. Oh. My. God. I have NEVER heard of this movie before now. I MUST see it!!!!

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