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Fantasy Movie Music is Often Tragic not Magic

January 15, 2009 / Randy Henderson / No comments

(From the Head of the Q.U. Crypto-Musicology Department)

There are so many things to mock about your average Fantasy movie.

For some reason, movie studios have traditionally treated Fantasy films on about a level with porn (and slightly below homemade horror movies) in terms of plot, acting, dialogue, costuming, puppets, wigs, gratuitous nudity, men poking everything that moves in one way or another, and special effects (often involving dubious fluids). There are a few notable exceptions, of course, but Fantasy movies are all too often embarrassingly bad.

But one cringe-inducing area rarely discussed is the music.

One of the worst offenders in recent memory was Kull the Conqueror, which actually improved my opinion of Heavy Metal in comparison.

Clearly, Kull’s "luxurious" locks should be cut into a mullet.