I love the classic horror films like this one... they didn't have to show lots of blood and guts on screen back then, people were smart knew what was going on even if not shown directly on camera (this is when several things happened off camera was indirectly shown).We have Peter Cushing vs. Donald Pleasence -- two great actors in a good film, it's hard to get better than this! I'll admit that even if Cushing and Pleasence was not in this film I would have enjoyed it but to watch both of them in this film was a great treat - they were the icing on the cake! The film is about a satanic cult, they worship a Minotaur God, lead by Peter Cushing! It's strange to see Cushing as the "bad guy" he usually played the "good guy" in films - so that's another treat to watching this film. Donald Pleasence is the priest out to fight the evil when he learns about people missing in the area and about the cult itself.Great classic film! Lots of Gothic imagery with an interesting story and a good cast (not just Peter and Donald).8.5/10

Considering I got this film in a collection of 35 other films, I have to say it was not too bad. In fact, it was an interesting watch. Could have been better as I think they should have just did a full on R movie instead of a PG film; however, seeing two great horror icons battle each other made it a somewhat fun watch. It was slow for a couple of stretches and as I said it would have been more cool had there been some nudity and better kills, but overall for a film I got on the cheap it was not all bad.The story has a group of friends going to a place where two others recently went missing. A priest warns them not to go, but they do not heed his warning and soon end up going missing themselves. I was a bit surprised at this as they show a couple being sacrificed during the opening scene, so I figured this group of three we are introduced to are the protagonists of the tale. After they vanish, the priest (Donald Pleasence) calls an American and he also teams up with a girl who is looking for her boyfriend who was one of the ones who vanished. The town, though, seems to be harboring a terrible secret and a crazed woman seems to want to tell the two men what is going on and for reasons unknown the priest declines to take her up on her offer to learn the plot right away and would rather wait until later. A strange Baron seems to be in control of everything and during the night figures in black robes seem to stalk the group as they try to find out what is going on.Not perfect by any means as there were a lot of things that made little sense like Donald's character refusal to see the person that seemed to have answers. His character seemed to have a lot of angry outbursts for the good guy too. I also did not see why he called the one guy. Sure he was a detective, but they never really explained the two's relationship. Apparently, he may have lived in that town, but if so he did not seem to have a clue what was going on making him useless for anything but beating down a cop. Still, Peter Cushing was excellent as the sinister, but polite Baron and Donald Pleasence as the priest was good too. Seems he is either a villain who wears outlandish outfits, Dr. Loomis or a priest when he is in a film. An easy enough film to watch for their performance, so while not really good this film is also not really bad either.

The presence of Donald Pleasance and Peter Cushing two players well schooled in the horror film make Land Of The Minotaur an endurable feast. Speaking of feasting these two guys digested well a complete diet of ham to get through this film.Pleasance plays a priest and Cushing a local nobleman by day, but by night he's the leader of a cult of devil worshipers. The object of their veneration is the ancient Greek monster the Minotaur who according to this film is really just another name for the Christian Satan.The cult has captured some visiting young tourists and are using them of course for their own nefarious purposes. So if you can't figure out where this is going you haven't been exposed to too much the work of the two British players.Location photography in Greece helps also, but mostly watch it for these two thespian legends.

How can you go wrong with a film that mixes the sophistication of Peter Cushing, the determination of Donald Pleasence and the bust of Luan Peters? Easy, you give them a terrible script to work with.Peter Cushing, in an evil role, leads a Satanic cult that has captured a couple friends of Donald Pleasence. Donald plays a determined but aloof priest that desires to locate his friends but needs the help of Fred from Scooby-Doo to locate them. He summons the help of a New York bloodhound, who dresses just like the hero of the cartoon, in his task. Meanwhile, the girlfriend of one of the missing people, Luan Peters, joins the search. If all this sounds interesting, then you, like myself, were mislead.It doesn't take long for the trio to sniff out the baddies but their methods of bringing the bad guys to justice are foolish. Also, women will find this a crapfest. Every time they get on the bad guys trail, our two male heroes tell Luan to stay at the hotel even though she can handle herself better than the squeamish priest played by Pleasence.STORY: $ (The script really lets us down. No tension is built. No worthwhile dialogue is given the stars and you'll need both hands to count the number of times Luan Peters is told to stay behind and let men do men work. If you're interested in seeing a minotaur on film don't bother. We get a statue of a minotaur that spits flames).VIOLENCE: $$ (There are some attacks and a few sacrifices, but those of you who drool for gore will be letdown).ACTING: $$ (Even though there are three of my favorite actors in this film, there is nothing redeemable here. Peter Cushing doesn't have much screen time, Donald Pleasence is clearly aware that he is on the set of a stinker and Luan Peters is ill-used. This should have been much better given the talent involved, but then again, the Yankees lose a game here and there too).NUDITY: $ (Luan Peters takes a bath but you see next to nothing. She isn't as obliging here as she was in The Flesh and Blood Show).