Your Highness (2011) Movie Review

It’s been awhile since I reviewed a movie that contains a maze or labyrinth. And there are some great maze movies out there if you were looking for one. But there is also the complete opposite, with a lot of terrible, mostly weak horror movies. So today we will will figure out which movie bucket the 2011 adventure comedy Your Highness fits into.

Your Highness (IMDB) (Amazon)

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Your Highness is an adventure comedy that pairs 2 brothers on a quest to find one of their kidnapped brides. One brother is good looking and does seems to do everything right (James Franco) while the other is a bit lazy (Danny McBride). The comedic portions of the movie are very much similar to other Danny McBride shows/movies so if you enjoy his type of comedy then this is for you. If you are not a fan, this might be something to watch in the background.

So what about the reason you are reviewing this here , you know the mazes ? Well, in the last half of the movie the group comes upon a maze and of course a very excited Minotaur that they must defeat to move on in their quest. It actually becomes one of the funnier parts of the movie punctuated with a nice ending to the scene. Except for the Minotaur. Not a good ending for him.

Overall, this is an average movie made with actors and actresses you know that is fine to watch for free, but is not something you should ever seek out unless you love Danny McBride. I give it a 5/10.

Hell Fest (2018) Movie Review

If a movie contains a maze or labyrinth, I watch it. Sometimes that means movie gold, but most of the time it means eh. How is Hell Fest ? let’s find out.

Hell Fest (IMDB) (Amazon)

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IMO, this is a remake of The Funhouse Massacre from 2015 with a larger budget and a slightly different script. If you haven’t yet seen The Funhouse Massacre, I don’t want to spoil it, but based on reviews that would be impossible. A good publicist would say it got “mixed reviews”, never mentioning the reviews were mixed between bad, unwatchable, terrible, poor, and almost ok. Anyway, a groups of kids on Halloween night head to the amusement park for Hell Fest for some nice haunted house style fun. But, there is a serial killer on the loose among the workers who is making some of the experiences seem a bit too real (because they are !!!). Will the group be able to escape the masked person following them ? Will police and security believe them ( do they ever?). The best part about this movie is the ending and I mean that sincerely. I would give the poster a close second. My thoughts: 5/10. Only if it’s free and nothing else is on.

The Minotaur (1960) Movie Review

So you want to watch a movie about the mythology of Theseus and the Minotaur in the labyrinth. Is this the movie for you ? Let’s find out.

The Minotaur (IMDB) (Amazon)

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Also known as The Minotaur, the Wild Beast of Crete or Teseo contro il minotauro in Italian so as not to think this is the terrible Tom Hardy film Minotaur from 2006 which thought it was so special it could drop the ‘the’.

Anyway this film follows the story of the town of Crete which sacrifices virgins each year to the Minotaur in the labyrinth to appease him. If you have more than one child the gods may select one of them to be sacrificed. This puts the king and queen in an awkward situation when they have twin girls. They decide to send one of the girls to be raised in a faraway village so she will not someday be sacrificed. However, many years later she is found. Now this is a movie, so the princess is evil and the twin from the village is good. There are fights, are mermaids and very very very little of the Minotaur. So the movie is named after a mythological beast that isn’t really in the movie much, although his presence in the background does serve to move the plot forward. Overall this is almost an ok movie.

Fun fact, the actor who plays Prince Teseo is 2 time Olympic gold medalist in the decathlon Bob Mathias. Later he was a 4 time member of Congress in the US House of Representatives. I can safely say that his life was much more interesting than this movie.

I would rate it 5 / 10 and if you find it when changing channels I would keep flipping - you can do better.

Here is a link to “ruin” the movie. This is the key scene at the end:

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Minotaur (2006) Movie Review

If there’s one thing I know about Labyrinths it is that in the center you might just find a mythical Minotaur protecting it.

Minotaur (IMDB) (Amazon)

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A fantasy film about the Minotaur monster starring Tom Hardy !! Note this is 2006 Tom Hardy and not 2008 and future Tom Hardy. We have already looked at Mazes and Monsters starring Tom Hanks, considered his worst movie ever. Well wouldn’t you know it, this happens to be Tom Hardy’s worst rated film ever. But to be fair that is balanced out by his character in one of the greatest maze movies ever (and wonderful regardless of genre) Inception.

Here is the gist of this terrible film. A village sacrifices youths to the Minotaur until Tom Hardy and a band of misfits fights back. Most of the movie takes place in the labyrinth with the group being chased by the beast. Whatever. 3/10.

Here is a link to watch the trailer:

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