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Deathstalker’ Reboot Opens Friday as Early Reviews Praise Practical-Effects Throwback

A Slash–Bear McCreary title track with a new video accompanies Steven Kostanski’s low-budget revival built on ’80s-style creature craft.

Overview

  • The film rolls out in select theaters on October 10 under Shout! Studios and Radial Entertainment distribution.
  • Critics describe a playful, blood-soaked homage driven by creature suits, prosthetics and stop-motion, with some noting uneven shifts between spoof and earnest epic.
  • Daniel Bernhardt leads as the grizzled warrior, with Patton Oswalt voicing Doodad, a goblin wizard sidekick, and Christina Orjalo co-starring.
  • Kostanski leans on in-house practical effects and a favors-fueled, low-budget approach to achieve an ’80s B-movie scale.
  • A three-track digital single, Deathstalker (Songs from the Motion Picture), arrives October 10, and a new music video showcases Slash performing the McCreary-cowritten title track.