The Vincent Charles Projekt ventures into the bargain-bin fantasy kingdom of Hawk the Slayer, where magic swords fly through the air, automatic crossbows never seem to need reloading, and Jack Palance devours every available piece of scenery.

VC, Ordy, Jeff, and Janelle celebrate the gloriously low-budget 1980 adventure while dissecting its wooden hero, questionable fight choreography, foam weapons, wrinkled gold sets, disco-infused soundtrack, and cast of elves, dwarves, witches, warriors, and enthusiastic British character actors. What begins as a straightforward revenge story quickly becomes a fantasy fever dream that feels like a twelve-year-old Dungeon Master assembled his friends, accepted every ridiculous character idea, and somehow managed to get the campaign released in theaters.

The crew also wanders through Krull, Doctor Who, Star Trek, Dungeons & Dragons, George Harrison, medieval hairstyles, terrible accents, and the many familiar faces hiding throughout the production. The script may be nonsense, the swords may bend, and the special effects may involve silly string. Still, Hawk the Slayer remains exactly the kind of wonderfully terrible movie the Projekt was created to appreciate.

The Vincent Charles Projekt straps on the roller skates and dives headfirst into the neon-soaked fever dream that is Xanadu. Vincent, Ordy, Jeff, and Janelle revisit the 1980 musical’s strange collision of Greek mythology, disco, classic Hollywood, punk aesthetics, and one undeniably fantastic soundtrack.

The crew debates whether Xanadu is a misunderstood good movie, a collection of music videos held together by a loose plot, or simply the glorious product of Hollywood still riding a coked-up Studio 54 high. Along the way, they celebrate Olivia Newton-John, Gene Kelly, ELO, the film’s vibrant production design, and its surprisingly heartfelt message about refusing to kill your own dreams.

There are also proposed remakes, questionable casting alternatives, roller-tap dancing, Don Bluth animation, Michael Beck’s hair, Greek mythology learned through Dungeons & Dragons, and enough tangents to make Zeus demand a rewrite. It is colorful, ridiculous, nostalgic, occasionally profound, and every bit as wonderfully chaotic as Xanadu itself.

This week on The Vincent Charles Projekt, Vincent is joined by Ordis Packard, Jeff, and Gary Ambrosia for a gloriously unhinged dive into Richard Elfman’s cult fever dream Forbidden Zone. The panel breaks down the film’s bizarre plot, black-and-white origins, later colorization, vaudeville roots, Oingo Boingo connections, Danny Elfman’s devilish musical fingerprints, and the strange-but-real artistry hiding underneath all the chaos.

Along the way, they get into Hervé Villechaize, Susan Tyrrell, the Mystic Knights of Oingo Boingo, cult cinema, German expressionism, Doctor Caligari, Russian fantasy films, Turkish Rambo, and why some movies are not “good” in the normal sense, but still deserve respect because somebody had the nerve to make something completely original. It is weird cinema, weird friendship, and weird laughter all the way down.