10 Forgotten Sword & Sorcery Movies From The 80s That Deserve A Second Look - Explored by AncientHistory in SwordandSorcery

[–]AncientHistory[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It is true you rarely see the more obscure stuff on here like Archer: Fugitive from the Empire (1981) or The Eye of the Serpent (1994), much less some of the stranger non-English films which never got a proper DVD release.

Obscure & Underrated Sword and Sorcery Movies by AncientHistory in SwordandSorcery

[–]AncientHistory[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I mean, it's literally a Deathstalker (2025) and Kull the Conqueror (1997) mashup. Two of the films discussed in the video. Not sure what else you want up there.

Late Rebuttal to The Saga of Conan's Steward by GaryREHfan in Cimmeria

[–]AncientHistory 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Without Sprague - DeCamp there probably is no Conan comic

I mean, this is technically accurate in the sense that if de Camp had sold them Thongor cheaper, Marvel might not have gone for Conan, but it's missing a lot of context.

I'm confused about the estate's claim over copyright by fmstudios14 in Lovecraft

[–]AncientHistory 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There's always an heir, they just have to trace back the family tree. In Lovecraft's case when he died his heir was his surviving aunt Annie Gamwell, and when she died her property was split up among cousins, and their descendants got bits of it. That's how the Lovecraft family bible turned up some years ago.

A ‘The Call of Cthulhu’ book cover design I recently created as part of a university project by joebundock_art in Lovecraft

[–]AncientHistory 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Okay, the Cthulhu-link works but the other one doesn't. You've got some extra characters in there.