Hawk the Slayer (1980)

A cheesy but fondly remembered by many (including yours truly) Sword + Sorcery flick that borrows plot from many sources, including Tolkien, the Western genre, and a well-known sci-fi film that I once again refuse to name.
John Terry is Hawk, the leading man with an impractically-balanced magic sword, but the script doesn't push him to the fore like you'd expect.
Hawk's face-ache evil sibling, Voltan - The Dark One, is actor Jack Palance; he hams it up, but I get the feeling he's slightly embarrassed to be there.
Much of it appears to have been filmed within a few hundred square feet of English forest. I'm sure I saw the same tree multiple times.
Harry Robertson's bitchin' soundtrack is like hearing a 1970s folk band playing snippets of Jeff Wayne and Ennio Morricone, with pastoral interludes.
It's a strange and difficult film to defend, but I'm absolutely a fan of it.

3 [mystical noises] out of 5