Episode 114: The Beastmaster featuring Michael McDaniel

Michael McDaniel, co-host of the podcast Your Roots Are Showing, is showing their roots with The Beastmaster (1982).  After the success of Phantasm, Don Coscarelli moved onto a swords and sorceries epic.  Adapted from the book The Beast Master, It stars Marc Singer as our Oil and Tanned Protagonist, Dar, who’s fighting the evil forces of Rip Torn’s Maax who’s sacrificing a lot of babies and gumming the scenery to death while croaking with vocal chords made of wood.  Luckily Dar can talk to animals and see through their eyes, which is perfect for the task?  He makes it work and his ferrets are just the best.  There’s also a hawk, a black tiger and human sidekicks played by Tanya Roberts, John Amos, and Joshua Milrad.  It’s a riot out there in wherever it is that Dar lives and we’re loving it.  We have a feeling you might too, so tune in!