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Yor, the Hunter from the Future

Yor, the Hunter from the Future

Movie · 1983 · 7 people

Despite mostly unkind reviews, notably from Variety and The New York Times, Yor, the Hunter from the Future became one of Antonio Margheriti's most financially successful films. Italy, France and Turkey co-produced this 1983 science fiction and fantasy picture, known in Italian as Il mondo di Yor ("The World of Yor"), and in some countries its director was credited as Anthony M. Dawson. It drew three nominations at the 4th Golden Raspberry Awards in 1984 and later made a Razzie guide's list of the 100 worst yet funniest films.

The screenplay draws on the 1974 Argentinian comic Henga el cazador. Eugenio Juan Zappietro (also known as Ray Collins) wrote it and Juan Zanotto drew it. The story unfolds in a world mixing prehistoric and futuristic elements, where the warrior Yor searches for his origins. Reb Brown, Corinne Cléry, John Steiner and Carole André lead, with Luciano Pigozzi, Nello Pazzafini and Gregory Snegoff also in the cast.

It was conceived as a four-part miniseries for Italian television, and the film runs about eighty-five minutes. Part of the shoot took place in Cappadocia. In Germany the film opened as Einer gegen das Imperium on March 16, 1984, and later came out there on DVD.

DirectorAntonio Margheriti
Production companyRAI
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Nello Pazzafini Nello Pazzafini Actor · died at 62 Reb Brown Corinne Cléry Luciano Pigozzi Carole André John Steiner Gregory Snegoff

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Action & Thriller Fan Puts pace, tension and set pieces first; little patience for slow drama.

A prehistoric warrior, futuristic touches and Cappadocia scenery: on paper it is a full adventure cocktail. But expecting polished fight scenes from a film that landed on Razzie lists would be a mistake. In my view it works best not as a serious action picture but as an eighties adventure to laugh along with among friends. Anyone hoping for real pace and tension may well be let down.

Cinephile Looks at script, editing and directing choices; keeps a distance from formula films.

The most instructive thing about Yor is that it was first conceived as a four-part miniseries for RAI. Knowing that, it is easy to see why an eighty-five-minute cinema cut might feel fragmented; to my mind part of its scattered rhythm is the price of that conversion. The gulf between the harsh notices in Variety and The New York Times and its box-office success is a lesson of its own: Margheriti delivers the comic-book colour and genre mash-up he promises the audience, but leaves little for critics hoping for depth in the script. A Razzie guide listing it among the worst and funniest films sums up that split neatly. A fun curiosity for cult audiences, not a work that left a mark on film language.

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Yor is a small but telling example of how eighties European genre cinema worked: an Italian, French and Turkish co-production, adapted from an Argentinian comic, with part of the shoot in Cappadocia. Such a partnership clearly rested on commercial arithmetic more than cultural ambition, and Cappadocia serves here not as a place with its own story but as an unusual backdrop. For Turkish viewers the interesting part is seeing the country take part in an international production of this kind as both a partner and a natural set. The film itself, however, is not as rich as the context it came out of.

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