It may not look like it, but 'Krull' was pushing technical boundaries in the special effects department when it first came out. My history may be a little rocky, but I'm still right about 'Krull.' The producers wanted to try out some of the newest special effects techniques, but the one thing they forgot was that pushing technical bounds means spending a whole lot of moola.
'Krull' is also not a very good movie, and the name sucks. It's hard to even say, so how was word of mouth supposed to spread? If you are interested in hammy 80s sci-fi fantasy movies, then you'd probably enjoy 'Krull,' but it won't do the movie any favors. I'm pretty sure they stopped counting the revenue numbers by now.