Deathstalker Remake Debuts With 86% Rotten Tomatoes Rating

Deathstalker has received over critics throughout its opening weekend. The 2025 film, which was written and directed by Steven Kostanski (Psycho Goreman), is a remake of the Roger Corman-produced 1983 fantasy cult basic of the identical identify. The remake’s solid contains Daniel Bernhardt within the title function reverse Paul Lazenby, Christina Orjalo, Nina Bergman, and Ratatouille star Patton Oswalt.

Rotten Tomatoes has now aggregated sufficient opinions of Deathstalker, which premiered in theaters on October 10, for the film to have earned an official rating on the Tomatometer. Whereas the rating may fluctuate as extra opinions are added, on the time of writing, 21 totally different critics have weighed in to present the film a solidly Recent 86%.

Typically, the Recent opinions for Deathstalker vary from strong (3 out of 4, 4 out of 5, and eight out of 10) to good (it earned a 5 out of 5 from Harris Dang of In Their Personal League), whereas the Rotten opinions are merely middling (its solely scored unfavourable evaluation provides it a 2.5 out of 4).

General, critics appear to agree that the film makes up for its meat-and-potatoes fantasy story and low finances strategy with a surfeit of enthusiasm that makes it a worthwhile love letter to the style and an on the spot cult basic.

It stays to be seen if audiences really feel the identical approach as critics, as there haven’t been sufficient verified consumer opinions submitted for Deathstalker to earn a rating on Rotten Tomatoes’ Popcornmeter.

By default, this rating for the remake makes it one of the best reviewed installment within the fantasy film franchise, which incorporates three sequels that had been produced by way of 1991. None of these earlier titles have sufficient opinions from critics to have earned Tomatometer scores.

Beneath, see a breakdown of the Rotten Tomatoes scores given to the Deathstalker motion pictures by each critics and audiences, the place relevant:

Whereas the Eighties fantasy motion pictures might not have Tomatometer scores, all 4 of them have Popcornmeter scores which might be uniformly Rotten. Whereas the 57% rating earned by the primary sequel drew near the 60% threshold previous which a film may be deemed Recent on the platform, the rest are all in a dismal vary beneath 30%.

Due to this fact, if Deathstalker‘s viewers opinions are as sturdy as critics’, or a minimum of fall inside 26% of their degree of positivity, the remake may turn out to be the primary installment to have a constructive rating on the Popcornmeter as effectively. This might doubtlessly reinvigorate curiosity within the fantasy franchise a number of a long time after it went dormant.