The slayer's weapon technology
My original post disappeared long ago so I will rewrite it and update it too.
Does anyone wish to comment on the alien slayer's weapon technology? KRULL was a different kind of sci fi movie because it deliberately attempted to blend Dungeons & Dragons/Tolkien-like medieval world setting with science fiction technology. The Beast and his strange, composite creature slayers looked as if they were medieval-like yet invisibly used high tech technology such as faster-than-light space travel technology.
What is so odd is that the slayers used a weapon that was an odd mixture of old and new technology. Given their high-tech background, they could have done a lot better with repeating direct energy weapons. Instead, their energy pikes could only fire once and then the weapon was turned around to become an electrical sharp blade glave pike which stabbed and electrocuted at the same time. The weapon was only one-shot but was unbelievable lethal. One shot anywhere in the body's main torso was immediately lethal. Ken Marshall's character survived only because his shot was in the shoulder away from vital organs. But everybody else died instantly upon being hit by the energy bolt from the slayer's glave pikes. The energy bolt's lethality at a minimum matches a .357 magnum (72% stopping power) to that of a .44 magnum (81% stopping power)
The slayers themselves were really weird. There's the sense that these were not natural creatures but may have been bio-engineered constructs by the Beast himself, that is, articial beings. Whenever one of these slayers died, its cranium split open and a squid-like organism slithered out, behavior that is similar to many parasites when the host organism dies. It was really weird and gross to watch, but it was fun since it was so imaginative on the dark side.