Posts Tagged ‘Daniel Bernhardt’

Worse News: Deathstalker Music Video feat. Guns N’ Roses’s Slash!

Posted: 10/10/2025 in Tribute, Worse News
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As it was tradition for the longest time (up until sometime in 2010s) the new Deathstalker movie has a Music Video! Chuck Cirino, the veteran composer who wrote the original (and the most memorable)
theme for Deathstalker II is back with the new franchise composer Bear McCreary (Battlestar Galactica, Walking Dead OST), his brother vocalist Brandon McCreary, drummer Gene Hoglan (Death, Dark Angel, Testament, Metalocalypse), bassist Pete Griffin (Steve Vai), guitarist Omer Ben-Zvi and of course the movie’s co- producer Slash of Guns N’ Roses fame on lead guitar.

I knew the theme would kick-ass but a heavy rocked up version w/ vocals is an awesome surprise!

Song is also a part of the upcoming EP paired up with a Radio Version of the theme and also a song Walking Alone by the actress/ singer Nina Bergman, and it can be pre- ordered right here. For those in the US and Canada Deathstalker (2025) is playing in select theaters starting today and hopefully for us across the pond Europe release won’t be far behind.

Bear McCreary, Slash & Gene Hoglan

Worse News: Deathstalker (2025) first trailer!

Posted: 27/08/2025 in Tribute, Worse News
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In case the recent teaser poster wasn’t enough for you, Shout! Studios just put out the first trailer for the new Deathstalker and it doesn’t disappoint. For those of us missing the 80s cheese Barbarian flicks in our lives this is a breath of fresh air.

In Deathstalker, the Kingdom of Abraxeon is under siege by the Dreadites, heralds of the long-dead sorcerer Nekromemnon. When Deathstalker recovers a cursed amulet from a corpse-strewn battlefield, he’s marked by dark magick and hunted by monstrous assassins. To survive, he must break the curse and face the rising evil. Death is just the beginning… of great adventure!

Also, notice the Albert Pyun‘s Sword and the Sorcerer easter egg at the end there- wasn’t expecting that one!

Worse News: Kostanski’s Deathstalker poster and release date!

Posted: 13/08/2025 in Tribute, Worse News
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After the recent news that Shout! Studios bought the U.S. rights for the new Deathstalker movie staring Daniel Bernhardt just before it’s premiere on Locarno Festival (Switzerland) we finally have the release date for the movie too! North American release date is October 10 with Shout! handling U.S. and Raven Banner handling it’s native Canada.

Japanese and German- speaking territories rights were also sold at the Locarno Festival with more to follow.

With this and the long gestating Red Sonja reboot (coming out today!!!) this is shaping up to be a fun year for Sword and Sorcery fans. (And that’s not even counting the comicbook side with the titular Deathstalker from Vault Comics, Titan’s Conan and Savage Sword of Conan and Dynamite’s Fire and Ice.)

Not to forget we also got this sweet poster:

Worse News: First official photo of Daniel Bernhardt as Deathstalker!

Posted: 20/05/2024 in Worse News
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Month after the beginning of production Raven Banner is launching sales at Cannes and we now have an official photo of Daniel Bernhardt as the titular Deathstalker– and he’s just as badass as I expected.

The Kingdom of Abraxeon is under siege from The Dreadites, a mysterious horde of warriors, whose sudden appearance are rumored to foretell the return of Nekromemnon, an ancient sorcerer long thought dead. Such times of chaos are times of fortune for men like Deathstalker who, having broken ties with all guilds and banners, now ekes an existence from the spoils recovered in the wake of Dreadite attacks.

Our story begins when Deathstalker (Bernhardt) unknowingly recovers an enchanted amulet from a corpse-ridden battlefield, and finds himself cursed by an arcane magick. Now pursued by a monstrous clan of assassins at the behest of the Dreadite scourge, Deathstalker is forced into a perilous quest to reverse the curse and rid the realm of evil.

It will no doubt be great to see Bernhardt back as a lead actor again after almost exclusively playing villains since Matrix Reloaded (2003).

And while you’re waiting for the Deathstalker movie, first issue of Slash presents Deathstalker comicbook (by Vault Comics) is now out, and yeah- even Bernhardt himself is reading it!

Worse News: 90s Action Star Daniel Bernhardt cast in the new Deathstalker movie!

Posted: 05/03/2024 in Worse News
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After a successful Kickstarter campaign for the Deathstalker comicbook (via Vault Comics/ Slash Presents) we could sense a possibility of a new Deathstalker movie in an air. If fact the comic was first sign of life for the Roger Corman- created property in more than 33 years!

And now it comes to pass– new Deathstalker movie is in pre- production and about to start filming very, very soon.

https://www.deviantart.com/steff00/art/Deathstalker-1036364147

Hopefully the official poster will look exactly like this

Stalwart of the 90s Martial Arts cinema (Bloodsport II,True Vengence, Perfect Target) Bernhardt transitioned into more of a badass villain roles in ’00s starting with Matrix Reloaded all up to John Wick, Parker, Atomic Blond and most recently Extraction 2. In recent years he also branched out as a Action Choreographer working on such films as Creed 2, Nobody and again Extraction 2.

Filming is about to start in late April written and directed by Steven Kostanski (Psycho Goreman, The Void) and I sure hope someone saved those pigmen costumes, ’cause it wouldn’t be a Deathstalker movie without them! (Hopefully the OG Deathstalker Rick Hill can make an appearance too.)