Ilya Muromets Boris Karloff Daniels (Thunder on the Hill)

Daniels (Thunder on the Hill) and co-starring Sal Mineo (Rebel Without a Cause) and Jay C

Italian filmmakers fired a canon of blasphemy to launch what remains the most controversial genre of all

Part of the STUDIOCANAL Cult Classics collection

Adapting a then-unpublished novel by Tom Perrotta

puckish elves

Ilya Muromets Boris Karloff Daniels (Thunder on the Hill)Legendary fantasy filmmaker Aleksandr Ptushkos sweeping, visual F X filled epic is one of his most enchanting achievements: a stunning Cinemascope ballad of heroic medieval knights, ruthless Tugar invaders, wind demons and three headed fire breathing dragons. The film stars Boris Andreyev as the bogatyr (warrior) Ilya, a mythic figure in the Kyivan Rus culture that pre dated both modern Ukraine and Russia (much of the films action is set in Kyiv, and