The Lords of Magick

My review was written in February 1990 after watching the movie on Prism video cassette.

Overly ambitious low-budget feature takes ancient wizards a thousand years into present-day Los Angeles in their battle with an evildoer named Saladin. Poor special effects sink this direct-to-video release.

Jarrett Parker and Mark Gauthier play the two young 10th century magicians charged with necromancy, who travel to the future to retrieve a lovely, kidnapped princess (Ruth Zackarian). The expected culture clash in '80s L. A. is pretty tame, though Gauthier has a sexual encounter with a sassy black prostitute (Rene St. Peter).

Animated special effects are amateurish and the final battle in a warehouse with Saladin (Brendan Dillon Jr.) is poor.