This Low-Budget Fantasy Movie is INSANE | Billiam

[@billiam]

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[@robertlane3850]

You should do merch or a merch drop of some kind :) I would definitely buy :)

[@jonathanyanez9434]

Dude... self care. Goblomorph

[@predragrajkovic8242]

Great video as alwais . do you plan to do a digimon ghost game review when the show end ? Also have ever seen Blue dragon anime from 2007 and what do you think abaut it ?

[@suhfee]

i would buy stickefs

[@SkunkySpinda]

Euuuughhhh every time he picks up the mouse by the tail my spine hurts

[@mrhankypie7901]

Every Billiam video he gets closer and closer to the energy of a professor who got kicked off of campus for going too conspiratorial about mothman, but then busts into lectures to talk about mothman and his love for him. I am here for it

[@Fuzzleberry]

So he's turning into that scooby doo character that gives facts about the monster but nobody believes him?

[@violentvixen592]

Billiam is one of my fashion icons. I crave to be described this way. And I want it to hit as accurate as this comment does.

[@Novahawk12]

I'd attend Billiam's mothman lecture at Greenvale Community college

[@liz_loves_cats]

​@@Novahawk12 I myself have been looking forward to seeing him at Greendale community college, the dean has been on the PA system nonstop for days to tell the study group about it

[@bZman]

@@liz_loves_cats I would study for that class

[@Nik-xc9du]

My wife was actually one of the child actors in this movie Apparently every girl on set had a crush on Max and the fighting choreographer was the teacher at her dojo (how she got a part in the movie) As soon as she saw me watching this video the stories would not stop Thanks for the great video

[@ParadigmRiki]

Please tell more of these stories, we need some of that sweet, sweet Max Magician Behind the Scenes lore.

[@user-nb4ou7on5q]

Wholesome pieces of the past

[@kkbeaw]

Hello! Wife here. I want to add this disclaimer: These memories are subject to time's degradation and my limited perspective as a young girl. I'm sure others might have other interpretations of the events herein. I was offered a part as an extra along with several other martial artists from the same school. Some of us practiced Tae Kwan Do and others Eskrima (which is why you see a lot of stick fighting in the movie). How my martial arts school got the offer, I'm not sure. Whether the owner applied or was sought out, we all leaped at the chance to be in a movie. We were told it was a cross between Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings, and I TOTALLY believed this would be the next EPIC movie. It is, but for entirely different reasons. The film was shot at the Maryland Rennaisance Festival Faire Grounds. My late mother and I were extras together and had to provide our own costumes--except for some prosthetic elf ears, and makeup applied daily. None of us were paid (at least, not that I'm aware of), but we received free lunch every day. We were also promised a free t-shirt and a copy of the movie. I never got a copy of the film. It was over a decade later that I watched it again. Since I couldn't get my mom's insight, I called my dad to see what he remembered. He said, "the lunch was nothing to write home about" (fair enough, I remember eating a lot of those Starkist Tuna cracker packets), and he scoffed that none of the unpaid extras had "regular" jobs; otherwise, they'd be at work. My dad is a bit grumpy, so try and forgive him. In terms of extras, there were a lot of us. I remember two main groups: the martial artists and the faire people. By faire people, I mean people who seemed to be affiliated with the Renaissance Faire in some way. They were decked out in garb and often bawdy, loud, and inappropriate in front of us kids. I remember them getting us shushed by the director on a few occasions. In hindsight, some day drinking was probably involved based on what I remember seeing. Even though I was judgemental then, I totally get it now that I'm an adult. I'd do the same if I weren't getting paid...and quite possibly even if I were being paid. If you're not drunk and macking on busty ladies, are you even at Renn Faire? When in Rome. Anyway. The martial arts extras were split into groups and given choreographed scenes to pitch to the director. I remember practicing in the jousting arena, which was pretty cool. One of the fight scenes I had to perform was between me (and possibly another young girl, I can't remember) and this giant gladiator of a man. It was meant to be comical because the fight subverted expectations, and the little girl(s?) beat the crap out of the man in the scene. Unfortunately, it wasn't chosen for the final cut of the movie. Too bad, it was cute. At the premiere, I remember sitting and thinking, "oh my god, is this bad?" I didn't realize a movie could be bad. But, boy, did I find out. I was mortified at the time. This was supposed to be Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings combined. How did it end up like...that? Over time, though, I became quite proud of MMLL because it introduced me to the beautiful world of hilariously bad movies. And MMLL is tip-top of that genre. There's tons more, I'm sure. If anyone is interested, I'll post more later. Maybe we'll do a rewatch to dredge up some more memories. At the very least, it'll be fun to introduce to our daughter. Hopefully, her baby brain won't be too ashamed of her elf-mommy.

[@young__blacksmith]

This was amazing

[@Hel1mutt]

@@kkbeaw Thanks for sharing! that was a fun read!

[@Alpha.Monster]

Fun fact: The "Ren Faire" portions of this movie were actually filmed at the one I went to ALL THE TIME growing up. The Maryland Renaissance Festival. I saw the shots showing the front gates and I was like "This couldn't be the same one, right?" and sure enough. Given the age of the movie things have certainly updated a little since then but it was definitely filmed there. Props to the director for budget locations.

[@stacy__fakename]

Holy shit, you're right. I live in the area and got to go there once - that's definitely RenFest. It's still an excellent time. I got to devour a pork chop on a stick.

[@TheMysteryDriver]

I was wondering if that's where it was filmed, but some do look very similar.

[@bZman]

God I haven't been to MD RenFest in years

[@TerraHv1]

I used to go there at least a couple times a year before Covid. That place is so much fun.

[@Ch0cken]

I was wondering if that's where it was filmed while watching the video. Couldn't remember exactly because I haven't been there in about 15 years. Thanks for confirming it!

[@empiricallyzyra2069]

Im so glad our residential hipster trash got his channel back. Thank you for bringing us this dose of madness.

[@bentarbuck6161]

I love the school play energy this has. its not a low budget poor film, its a high budget amazing school play

[@cyberjackal774]

OH MY GOD FINALLY. SOMEBODY HAS DONE THIS MOVIE!!! My siblings and I found this literally in a box in the woods while geocaching when we were kids. It's our special thing that odds were nobody else would ever experience or have any idea what the hell we were talking about. I look it up once in awhile to see if anyone like this has reviewed it, and now they have!!

[@themoviedealers]

Good Bad Or Bad Bad also reviewed it several years ago.

[@FiercedeityBrad]

I got it from a sci-fi book club newsletter I got when I joined bmg music club. It came with another movie about a leprechaun. Edit: it's called The Last Leprechaun

[@HeyLizardLeigh]

Aww, my late dad was the director of photography on this movie. My sister and I were on set a bunch of the ren fair location days, and we had props from it in our basement growing up that we played with all the time (they were basically larp props, ideal to hit each other with lmao). Kevin (the director) actually unexpectedly came to my dad's celebration of life when he heard about it through the grapevine on fb, and he told everyone there about how my dad singlehandedly saved the movie when they had catastrophic audio problems on like day one. It was really kind of him and a really bizarre, silly memory to have on such a tough day. Here because I was completely jumpscared to see the movie from my childhood weekends in a quinton reviews vid, I always forget it's become something that more than like the cast & crew involved actually know about. My dad *loved* low budget filmmaking (he was so weird) and it's strange but nice to see how many other people like it too.

[@infinite-ichthyologist]

I am SO glad this channel wasn't lost to the hack. Billiam's videos are so comforting and live at the top of my rewatchables list

[@lancethefilmguy9392]

I can't believe you actually remembered this. I thought I'd dreamed up this movie. I remember watching this as a teenager because it was cheap at Wal-Mart and it is a very odd movie to say the least.

[@faithmelton4795]

Oh my god same. I was like I love the lord of the rings, sure. And now to this day, this movie is the center of many inside jokes with me and my cousins 😂

[@finmiles965]

Oh DUDE as an RLM fan whose soul got crushed when their tape ate itself during their viewing I’m SO stoked that Billiam got to watch this masterpiece 😂

[@elishabonnette7747]

SAME

[@grantfielder]

Exactly

[@jackalope_butchery]

100% came to express the same sentiment. This guy gets it.

[@QueenDodogondo]

On the plus side, at least we did get to watch Rich Evans react to Robot in the Family

[@Avinator5712]

There's a pretty good channel called good bad or bad bad who did this movie- they had some thoughts as you might imagine.

[@Dinosauringg]

Billiam saying "Yeah, this is Billiam" is such a comforting sound for me I can't describe why

[@Gatorade69]

Much better than Elon Musk.

[@CyborgWolf]

I love when movies are genuine, even "bad", they tried something & that make them honest

[@Jonkenstonk]

Glad to see you got your channel back!

[@Jacob-Sophia]

Uh oh the bots are getting more powerful. They’re saying vaguely relevant stuff now.

[@PeterGriffin11]

You deserve an award for being able to follow the plot of this movie because after listening to you explain it I still had no idea what was going on.

[@collinmclaren6608]

I feel like its a bad sign that literally every piece of dialogue in this movie I'm legitimately questioning whether it was dubbed in by Billiam and his friends in post. That's exactly what it sounds like.

[@Labyrinth6000]

Legend of the Rings! Yes, I suggested this! Thank you for covering this underrated and forgotten movie! I thought I was the only person that knew about this movie! There’s even a subreddit dedicated to this movie.

[@believeinmatter]

I think it’s accurately rated lol

[@believeinmatter]

@А Сhristmas Ерiphany at least learn to form a sentence before you spam bs

[@zeroattentiongaming820]

@@believeinmatter Just report them for spam

[@tonystewart7179]

​@@zeroattentiongaming820 report for terrorism

[@SaerasChuu]

I do like how the ring looks like one of those high school graduation rings.

[@anth636]

Welcome back Billiam. We missed ya

[@captaintalon4485]

This looks like a birthday day gift to a kid who loves LARPing but isn't big on dressing up so all his parents and relatives do the dressing up instead

[@KichiMiangra]

ngl if I was a parent and saw my kid, who's prone to magic tricks, pour milk, into a floating cup.... I'd prolly react the same way . "Woah-- uhh... That *is* cool, yeah. heh. what the frick?"

[@onioncatonioncat]

I don't think anyone mentioned it (or i didn't scroll far enough) but something i noticed about how the mice got handed: -please don't pick mice up by their tail, that can injure them -wire or mesh wheels are not good, use solid ones (i have several large plastic ones) instead

[@icyvamp77]

I literally was just thinking about this movie a few days ago. My sister and I would watch this movie a lot, and no one else we ever talked to knew about this movie. I’m so happy to see you cover it. It’s been years since I’ve seen this film, but I may have to dig it out at my parents’ house! 😄

[@silverwolf1270]

does the original have stretches without audio or did i just find a bad version

[@faithmelton4795]

Same with me and my cousins. I have no idea where my dvd of this is, but I must find it

[@LyricNear]

I feel like you would absolutely love the Ink Thief. Similarly charming low-budget kids fantasy tv series, but it's got some really creative characters and i love their designs! It also mixes live-action, 2d and 3d animation.

[@Mdmd-h9y7u]

Back in my college days, I was forced to do a film editing project, using footage from this movie. As I was watching, I kept expecting Misty Mundae and Darian Caine to show up.

[@AnimeAngel88]

I had this movie on DVD. What's really sad is that this movie had potential, but it just couldn't reach it. The lore they were trying to build up was rather interesting.

[@FranNyan]

So much of the footage gave me the same vibe as Gamers: Dorkness Rising. The things you can do when your budget is $5 and whatever your LARP buddies can lend you.

[@Dae-D-Ellis]

OH GAWD, THIS MOVIE, WE HAD A DVD OF THIS. I kept rewatching it because I always felt like I was missing something, also these Voiceover lines are BURNED into the inside of my skull

[@amesstarline5482]

Wonderful seeing you back as yourself, Billiam.

[@CappyRose]

You've awakened dormant memories. I swear this movie is buried in our DVD collection somewhere.

[@ColeChickering]

Always happy to see another Billiam video, glad you are back from the hack! PS: I love any time a low budget movie review has to specify "actual audio" on screen.

[@NedBytes]

First day back from a hack and he's finishing the work RLM couldn't cuz their tape broke. I salute you.

[@MrHendrix17]

Hack fraud has very different connotations between these two channels

[@J3tr0cks]

I’m pretty sure the brother is named after the character Gwydion fab Dôn (Gwydion, son of Dôn in English), who is a wizard from Welsh folklore. He himself doesn’t turn into a eagle, but his friend does as a result of an assassination attempt. Gwydion turns him back into a human and nurtures him back to heath. Probably has nothing to do with this movie, but it’s just a little info tidbit for anyone curious.

[@jackie9397]

This was one of my family’s favorites growing up! It was filmed near us and we thought it was just a local thing!

[@GodAwfulFelafel]

I saw the thumbnail and screamed. My dad returned home from a dollar store run with this DVD and it’s been a family inside joke my whole life 😂

[@John12494]

Nearly spat out my drink when I heard that Okeechobee reference. Billiam with the surprise florida deep cuts.

[@reddanaceau9260]

The actor playing Mr Tim, Paul Danaceau, is actually my late grandfather - he was primarily a stage actor, so this is the only movie on his IMDb page. And as others commenters have pointed out, this was shot at the Maryland Ren Fest during the off season, so watching this movie was a real blast from the past.

[@rustinashackleford1367]

The scene of the girl bustin an egg on his bully is BURNED into my head, from my childhood (incorrectly, thought it was just Max and the bullies, didnt actually remember the girl). This and Warriors of Virtue (kid portal fantasying off to a world with TMNT style kangaroos) were top tier to kid me. In kid me's defence I was limited to Big Lots movies and our rural library system's VHS/DVD collection.

[@PuppetMasterIX]

This movie sounds like they had a properly-made movie ready to go, but had to hastily redub and reedit the entire audio track of the movie from scratch at the eleventh hour for some reason.

[@TacticusPrime]

Honestly, great makeup work in this film. Almost perplexingly good.

[@steel8231]

Damn they even predicted how Disney would treat Domestic and Foreign movie posters.

[@slapshappy]

Billiam my man it's wonderful to have you back, this is funnier than ever :')

[@PuddingRadSkin]

The talking mouse reminds me of a completely unrelated film from my childhood, Napoleon. An Australian film about a puppy who leaves his home and goes on an adventure, meeting other native animals along the way. Reminds me of that because, they simply voice over the animals without any cgi (I mean, it's a 1995 film tbh) and it works very well. One of my all-time fave live-action movies as a kid. It's very cute, and APPARENTLY has a US Dub version (??? why???) but go check it out.

[@crossflux971]

This is one of the most surreal videos I've seen. I actually saw this movie when I was younger. It was one of those things that I didn't quite understand at the time. I think my brain couldn't tell if the movie was actually being dubbed over? Either way, I repressed the memory and every so often (like once a year or something) I'd vaguely remember this and be all "huh, I wonder if I'll ever figure out what this thing was." Funnily enough I randomly thought about this movie again at work like a week ago and then suddenly, your video was recommended to me!

[@colleen6440]

BRO I was thinking of this movie the other week. Literally all I remembered was this kid wizard using tree puns as spells to beat up a big monster guy. I figured there was no way I'd ever find this movie again and then I find this video. And I have no memory of any of the things you talked about.

[@baconcartoonist]

Good to see you back Billiam!

[@royalthewaffle]

I love billiam and his glorious hair

[@obnoxiosefe2180]

Yay you're back I hope your doing well bill and because of that i think I might get a VPN from that

[@TerryBeck]

My mom bought this for my brother and I from a Walmart bin when we were kids. I literally thought I was the only one who's ever seen it...

[@chickensticks749]

That was super cool meeting you last night! I was the guy dancing with the led balls. Told ya, I've been subbed for a while! I guess I even already watched this video.

[@billiam]

Lol I’m not so sure the guy you met is me

[@Brisingr_Phoenix]

This is such a gem of a film, you should watch Velocipastor next if you want another good bad film

[@CasperAmpersand]

Anyone else grimacing loud as hell every time Max grabs the mouse by its tail 😬

[@DetonatorDayZ]

Holy shit, I didn’t think anybody else in the world knew about this movie. When I was a little kid, my babysitter had it on DVD and showed it to my brothers and I. It basically became a meme to us, I’m glad it’s been recognized lol

[@videobob92]

I found a DVD copy of this movie on top of a redbox outside of a grocery store, weathered box. And I'm afraid to watch out

[@Xamag]

Almost lost my shit when I saw this video in my subs. A couple years ago I decided to start going by Max online, and for completely unrelated reasons I remembered an old video from RedLetterMedia where they were about to review this very movie, but didn't because the VHS tape was broken. So I knew nothing about the movie, but the very title of "Max Magician and the Legend of the Rings" was so ridiculously catchy that I kept mentally repeating it like a chant until "Max Magician" became my Twitter name. Imagine my absolute delight when years later, I see this video that finally unveils the mystery of what the fuck this movie even was. I am absolutely thrilled to know that the titular Max Magician does, in fact, do magic tricks, and is friends with a field mouse. My skin is clear, my crops are watered, thank you so much

[@stinky59]

OH NO not max magician! I have a history with this movie. Approximately 8 years ago my mom found this thing on DVD at some bargain bin somewhere, and made me and my niece sit through it. We realized this was gonna be a stinker like 5 minutes into the movie but she wouldn’t let us leave. The worst part was that my mom genuinely enjoyed the whole thing and said it was a nice movie

[@lemonace6695]

I do think with a lot of polishing this could actually works as great childrem's fantasy book. They have world building and potential and the events are fast passing but interesting and it has some thematics. Basic turn it into a book where things can go slower and things can be better explained hire some beta readers and a good editor and it could work.

[@hannahmetzger4880]

I agree. It could be like the next _Percy Jackson._ :3.

[@grundlehunter69]

Good to see the channel back. It genuinely bummed me out when I saw that you got hacked

[@AussieDragoon]

I feel teased. I'm hoping for a full episode of teen celebrity horse films now.

[@sjspirtos]

Don’t know if you’ve seen the movie Troll. It’s a weird low budget 80’s fantasy film with the lead character named Harry Potter. Kinda surprised there wasn’t a lawsuit involved.

[@tobykassulke2385]

Troll came out 10 years before harry potter too lol.

[@scrunkore]

@@tobykassulke2385 damn jk rowling really can't do anything original 😤

[@sugarrookieart]

Thank goodness you're back!! I was so worried omg

[@VibinWithBrian231]

I hope you are doing okay! You get me through the tough days and make me laugh a lot. Thank you.

[@dowottboy5889]

Great to see you're back! The hack was very scary, I thought we'd lose all your old videos

[@MsStarlet21]

So weird like I have memories of certain scenes and dejavu but don’t remember this movie title or that it existed… so weird.

[@believeinmatter]

I haven’t thought about this movie in, not even joking, probably 20 years. Bizarre fever dream initiated

[@HattiesaurusRex]

So they used a lot of names from actual Celtic mythology, which makes me very tempted to make my former uni professor who taught a class on it watch this movie just to see if there's like... an actual myth they were using as a base

[@DahliaDew]

Your alive! Omg so glad to see you got your channel back!

[@Mrnotpib]

1:20 so, the mouse squeaks, in order to let you know that the mouse is about to talk, and then, the camera has a long focus on it, to also let you know that the mouse is still talking? And then it still squeaks again? Like it’s a mouse-verbal tic? It is such a weird choice. You can literally just focus on the mouse.

[@25Jake]

So glad to see you got your channel back billiam, cant wait for more vids.

[@SpecialInterestShow]

You might have unlocked some weird ancient memory of this movie that I've thought was a dream for over a decade

[@jamdeluxe7456]

"i made friends with an adult man who is a real life wizard" "well alright, you can keep him, so long as you keep him in a cage its fine with me :)"

[@emkultra2349]

So glad my stream of Billiam content is secure

[@lisalextang9641]

Glad you're back!!!! You should do The Room.

[@PassTheMarmalade1957]

The output of Scorpio Pictures sound like movies I would have been obsessed with as a kid, then re-watched years later and been like, "Oh..."

[@rawrjessirawr1991]

I watched this as a kid lol my mom was cheap sometimes and bought movies. It was such a weird movie and I definitely remember the mouse voice lol

[@Godzilla00X]

Did you think it was bad as a kid?

[@rawrjessirawr1991]

@Godzilla00X yea it was a weird movie for me as a kid and I didn't understand it 😅

[@thatgeekylibrarian]

I remember getting this from a $5 box and watched it more than I should with my little bro

[@carrotman]

A magician's dad so used to his son popping random tricks that his response to pouring a levitating glass of milk is 'whoa. haha. that is cool. yeah... great.'? Relatable.

[@morningstar9849]

There is no chance of me forgetung this movie, I have it on DVD.

[@xFalseProphetx]

Glad to have you back!

[@fionastirling986]

good to have you back, billiam!

[@hectormanuel8360]

I'm happy your channel was recovered.

[@luckyowl6432]

This is my new favorite movie. Edit: also when did you become a character from a romance novel cover? Love it Fabio 👍

[@planescaped]

Maybe if said romance novel is about homeless people. Hey, it's a style. :P

[@ZeroStako]

Glad to see you back, Billy.

[@anasevi9456]

15:20 oh my god, Dagda or whatever was already hilarious; but this sent my sides to orbit! 🤣

[@Retcon404]

The use of DOOM music in a video about Max Magician is maybe my new favorite thing.

[@ArbiterBacon117]

I'm glad you got your channel back

[@faithmelton4795]

This video made me so happy. For years I thought my cousins and I were the only one on earth that saw this movie 🤣

[@spectacular143]

I thought this movie was a fever dream! But I went through our old DVDs and sure enough I found it! I also thought I hallucinated the fart sound 😭

[@jayjonesrgaming]

Loool! The dad has completely checked out of that family 10yrs ago; not a fuck in the world to give 😭🤣

[@nicolemerrill9167]

I have been saving your videos buck hope you get your videos back the lost episodes to 90's gadgets so awesome

[@OwlishFun]

So glad to see you back Billiam, the lose of your channel would be a lose to mankind. Another excellent addition to the Internet.

[@minapazderak5867]

OH MY GOD I OWNED THIS VHS! The way that guy said "My lord" fucked me up for years!

[@ashleybyrd2015]

So damn happy you got your channel back

[@bowen13]

Glad you're back!

[@MrVampirePirate]

Yes! The channel is back! I can watch your amazing Bobobo video again

[@Ki_Adi_Mundi]

The Billiam is back in town.

[@exzyyd392]

Holy shit the final fight is Solo Levelling. A weak guy joins a group that are all kind of assholes, they lose, the main guy ends up alone and then raises an army of the dead that hard carries

[@9aracna.]

Glad to see you're back

[@tylermotes4463]

This hurts me so bad to see. This movie was included in a hoard of DVDs that were gifted to my family years ago. I remember being so disgusted by this trash that I took it out of the DVD player and destroyed it. I've told my friends about this movie for years and have always regretted destroying it, so my friends could watch it too.

[@silverwolf1270]

its on youtube

[@frauleinfunf]

My love for Harry Potter has ended, now Max Magician is my best fandom