Here's a quick rundown of movies, PEPLUM and non-PEPLUM ones, featuring the Minotaur. I've posted the Minotaur from Fellini's SATYRICON as the photo of the day above, so here's the rest. Even with all these films, the definitive version of the myth of Theseus's battle with the half-man, half-bull hasn't, imo, been done yet.
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The Minotaur in one of the CHRONICLES OF NARNIA films. Not a PEPLUM.
From THE TIME BANDITS
The Minoton in SINBAD & THE EYE OF THE TIGER
From THE LAND OF THE MINOTAUR, starring Peter Cushing. This is a horror film.
The CGI Minotaur from the Direct-to-DVD production called SINBAD & THE MINOTAUR
2 comments:
One rarely mentioned Minotaur
of the movies and television.
Was the Minotaur portrayed by
6 foot 7 inch tall champion body builder and actor
David Prowse
(who also played Darth Vader in Star Wars) in the 1972 episode
of Doctor Who THE TIME MONSTER
which aired June 1972.In it Doctor Who(Jon Pertwee) goes back in time to Atlantis.Also of note is 1970's Hammer babe Ingrid Pitt as Galleia.
Unfortantely the scene in the labyrinth with the Doctor and the Minotaur appears to have been done
tonque in cheek rather then atmosphere and chills.
Kenton C.
IIUC, the one with Bob Mathias as Theseus was also shown under the title Warlord of Crete.
And, IIRC, one of the made-for-TV Hercules movies with Kevin Sorbo was Hercules in the Maze of the Minotaur.
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