Each October, the Unsung Horrors podcast does a month of themed movies. This year they will once again be setting up a fundraiser to benefit Best Friends, which is working to save the lives of cats and dogs all across America, giving pets second chances and happy homes.

Today’s theme: Tony Todd

Directed by Jonathan English and written by Nick Green and Stephen McDool, Minotaur starts in the time of  King Deucalion (Tony Todd). Each year, eight young adults are taken from the village and dropped into an underground labyrinth to be sacrificed to the Minotaur. Theo (Tom Hardy) is still angry that his beloved Fion was sacrificed. When he learns that she’s still alive, he begs his father, the village chief Cyman (Rutger Hauer), to let him be part of the sacrifices along with Danu (Jonathan Readwin), Morna (Maimie McCoy), Tyro (Lex Shrapnel), Didi (Lucy Brown), Vena (Fiona Maclaine), Ziko (James Bradshaw) and Nan (Claire Murphy).

As they are being killed by the beast in the maze, Deucalion’s sister and lover, Queen Raphaella (Michelle Van Der Water) saves them. She also reveals how the monster came to this world. Her mother committed bestiality to create a living god. As the minotaur became stronger, it started killing, starting with Raphaella and Deucalion’s brother. This murder was based on the village that Theo comes from, which is why they have to send sacrifices every year. She sent word that his lover was still alive so that he would come, as she believed that he was the only one who could kill her monstrous half-brother.

And now, the battle has begun.

Beyond Tony Todd, I watched this because Ingrid Pitt is in it.

You can watch this on Tubi.