Yor, the Hunter from the Future

"Yor's world, he's the man! Yor's world, he's the ma-an!"

Yor, the Hunter from the Future, also known as Yor's World, is a film released in 1983. It was directed by the famous Italian B-movie director Antonio Margheriti and starring Reb Brown of Space Mutiny fame. The setting is a mixture between prehistoric and futuristic, borrowing elements from numerous popular franchises of the time. It has a growing cult following, and has been released on DVD in Germany.

The movie opens with Yor (Reb Brown) jogging around the stone towers of Cappadocia, Turkey while a very cheesy rock ballad plays in the background. In a nearby village, Kala, a seemingly primitive cave-woman, and her older protector Pak are hunting. Suddenly, they are attacked by a triceratops. Yor appears out of nowhere and kills the dinosaur with his axe. Yor is befriended by the village and together they cut the choice meats to be feasted upon in a celebration.

While Yor is there, a band of cavemen with bluish skin attack the village. Only Yor and Pak escape. Yor immediately swears to get Kala back. Yor and Pak track the blue cavemen to their lair where Yor shoots a giant bat with his bow and arrow. He then uses the dead bat like a hang glider to storm the lair and sneak out the back with Kala before flooding the cave... yes, you read that sequence of events correctly.

Kala and Pak decide to follow Yor in his adventure to find his origins. Along the way, they find a mysterious society of sand mummies, lead by a blonde woman; with an amulet similar to Yor's.

Eventually, Yor (in an effort to discover his true origins), makes his way to an island surrounded by storms. There he discovers that his parents were from a small band of nuclear holocaust survivors. An evil man named the Overlord has taken control of the remaining nuclear technology with his android army.

The 90 min movie of Yor that most viewers know of was edited from a four episode Italian TV mini series. Reviewed by The Spoony One here and Something Awful here.


 * After the End
 * Badass
 * Badass Grandpa: Pak
 * Barbarian Hero: Yor. He's the man!
 * Because Destiny Says So
 * Beard of Barbarism: Pak
 * Big Bad: The Overlord
 * Blatant Lies: The theme song boldly proclaims that Yor "never sees the sun/he's always on the run" as he leisurely strolls through an incredibly sunny desert.
 * B-Movie
 * Cavemen
 * Chick Magnet: Yor
 * Compilation Movie
 * Dull Surprise: Pak looks very disinterested about shooting robots with a laser
 * The Eighties
 * Everything's Better with Dinosaurs
 * Evil Overlord: Named Overlord.
 * Exactly What It Says on the Tin
 * Expository Theme Tune: It actually gives the entire twist of this being a future wasteland caused by a nuclear war, mixed in with some basic word salad. Well, it would spoil it if the title hadn't done the job already.
 * Flaming Sword
 * Giant Flyer: Later doubles as a Giant Hang-glider!
 * Gonna Need More Trope: "We will need a lot more hemp before we're through."
 * Hidden Elf Village
 * Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: The Overlord
 * Improbable Aiming Skills: Yor
 * Inferred Holocaust: By the Spoony One's count, Yor genocides five civilizations over the course of the film!
 * Killer Robot
 * Large Ham: Yor
 * Leitmotif / Theme Music Power-Up: The chanting of Yor's World any time something insanely awesome happens.
 * Loin Cloth
 * Low Culture, High Tech: Cavemen with lasers.
 * Mike Nelson, Destroyer of Worlds: Yor has a habit of destroying any civilization he comes into contact with. And we're not just talking about the ones that antagonize him, either.
 * Mondegreen: See Word Salad Lyrics below.
 * Mooks: The Overlord's robots.
 * Mutants
 * Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot: Dinosaurs, robots, and Cavemen using lasers
 * Notable Original Music: Yor's World is sung by Oliver Onions
 * The Obi-Wan
 * Older Sidekick: Pak
 * Orphan's Plot Trinket
 * Planet of the Apes Ending
 * Railing Kill: This predates the Trope Namer which also features Reb Brown.
 * Red Shirt
 * Ridiculously-Human Robots
 * Rock Beats Laser: Rock decapitates robot!
 * Rule of Cool
 * Schizo-Tech: Here we have cavemen armed with laser rifles shooting robots.
 * Shallow Love Interest
 * Somewhere a Palaeontologist Is Crying - At the beginning, . How the heck a is around  is left to the watcher to explain.
 * Why are you assuming that Yor's world is Earth? It could be a futuristic colonial world of Earth that had dinosaur-like species living on it before the human colonists had a nuclear war or just an alien planet in which human-like beings and dinosaur-like creatures on it, which also had a nuclear holocaust.
 * I would think that would be obvious. Well, by bad-movie logic anyway.
 * Truth in Television: Recent fossil evidence suggests that Triceratops did indulge in the occasional carnivorous meal, and was a carrion-eater in addition to eating plants. Of course there was no possible way for the film-makers of Yor to have known this, so it still counts a goof.
 * Spoiler Title - The film seems to present as a shocking twist the idea that it is set in a post-apocalyptic future rather than the past as a great revelation after the Overlord's technological minions appear. Despite the fact that it says in the title that it's set in the future.
 * Strictly speaking, the title only says that Yor is from the future, without saying why or how. That he is from the future because it is the future becomes a bit of a twist, in that light.
 * Stock Dinosaurs: This movie has a triceratops eating a caveman
 * Take Over the World - The Overlord's ultimate plan.
 * Which leads to massive Fridge Logic regarding his army, which can probably destroy all other civilizations without even trying
 * Throwing Your Sword Always Works: He underhands it!
 * Title Theme Tune: Yor's world, he's the man! Yor's world, he's the ma-an!
 * Who's on First?: The title.
 * Word Salad Lyrics ("There is a man from future, a man of mystery!" and "He's gonna make all them white bees look tame tonight! With his FIIIIIIGHT!")
 * It's possible that was meant to be "He's gonna make all the wild things look tame tonight." Still hilarious, though.
 * Oh, or "wild beasts"
 * And he never sees the sun, apparently.