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Bookmark this pageKnightriders (1981)
Director: George A Romero
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From Time Out Film Guide
When first shown in Britain at the London Film Festival, Knightriders was met with bewilderment, largely because it was such an anomaly within the Romero canon. In the light of his later aberrations, it looks more to the point now. The tale of a latter-day motorbiking King Arthur and his noble knights, who stage medieval jousts, it's a genuinely idiosyncratic exercise in anachronism, as well as scoring a few telling points about the nature of role-playing in modern America. Romero's regular effects man Tom Savini (later a director in his own right) features in the cast, as does scribbler Stephen King - surely the most macabre sight in the movie - in a boozy cameo.Author: JRo
Cast & crew
Director: George A Romero
Producer: Richard P Rubinstein
Cast: Ed Harris, Gary Lahti, Tom Savini, Amy Ingersoll, Patricia Tallman, Christine Forrest, Warner Shook full cast
Genre(s): Fantasy
Duration: 145 mins
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