The cult sword and sorcery epic gets a handsome UK Blu-ray release to mark its 30th anniversary.<\/p>\n
Although a relative disappointment at the box office<\/a> in the mid-1980s, Highlander found a much bigger audience on VHS before\u00a0establishing itself as a cult favourite<\/a> on home video.<\/p>\n Set in 1985 New York, it explores a fantasy underworld where, since the dawn of time, several immortal warriors have been fighting each other until a final battle (“The Gathering”) will establish one final winner (“There can be only one!”).<\/p>\n It explores this narrative through Connor MacLeod (Christopher Lambert<\/a>), a New York art dealer by day and swordsman by night, who since the 17th century has encountered many characters on his journey.<\/p>\n There is a Spanish-Egyptian mentor (Sean Connery<\/a>), a mortal enemy (Clancy Brown<\/a>) and many others, as his backstory is discovered through flashbacks by an expert in antiquities (Roxanne Hart<\/a>).<\/p>\n