Barbarian Queen has Roger Corman written or, perhaps, scrawled hastily all over it. A sword and sandal "epic" filled with boobs, blood, bondage, and... well... I'm sure there's a few minutes when there's other stuff on the screen as well.
Blonde nymph Taramis (Dawn Dunlop) is innocently picking flowers when she is set upon by ( according to the official synopsis ) a pair of Romans ( tho they are far more disheveled than any Roman I've ever seen, and I've seen "Rome" ), who unbuckle their rags menacingly in the film's first rape scene, whilst muttering such witticisms as "come here sweetheart" and "oooh mama". Unsurprisingly, this sets the tone of much of what is to follow.
Amethea (Lana Clarkson), the victim’s big sister, is indulging in a completely non-gratuitous ceremonial bath with her closest pals, when hordes of "Romans" storm the village, hacking and slashing their way through the somewhat displaced Argentinean peasant folk. Amethea somehow survives and vows vengeance against this tyranny and savagery. Says Amethea, "I'll be no man's slave and no man's whore! And if I can't kill them all, by the gods, they'll know I've tried!" And try she does...
Seemingly Amethea's whole body has been trained as a weapon, which becomes surprisingly evident when she is strapped topless on a rack ( of the torturing, not Pamela Anderson variety ) with escape impossible, if not for an attempted rape by her captor and the mighty vice like grip of her... er... vagina. I swear to god, I could not make this up. Held painfully in her "grip", the dungeon- master releases her bonds, before he is summarily dispatched into a handy tub of acid.
The film did however spawn a sequel of sorts, as Lana and her "abilities" returned for "Barbarian Queen 2: The Empress Strikes Back". However, as neither the scenario nor characters were the same as the original, the term "sequel" may be a bit of an overstatement. There was even talk of a third outing for the pulchritudinous Miss Clarkson, but that was put to an end with the starlet’s untimely death. Where was her "grip" or the tub of acid that nite at Phil Spector's house?!
Barbarian Queen is more an historical curiosity than anything else, but still curiously enjoyable
Blonde nymph Taramis (Dawn Dunlop) is innocently picking flowers when she is set upon by ( according to the official synopsis ) a pair of Romans ( tho they are far more disheveled than any Roman I've ever seen, and I've seen "Rome" ), who unbuckle their rags menacingly in the film's first rape scene, whilst muttering such witticisms as "come here sweetheart" and "oooh mama". Unsurprisingly, this sets the tone of much of what is to follow.
Amethea (Lana Clarkson), the victim’s big sister, is indulging in a completely non-gratuitous ceremonial bath with her closest pals, when hordes of "Romans" storm the village, hacking and slashing their way through the somewhat displaced Argentinean peasant folk. Amethea somehow survives and vows vengeance against this tyranny and savagery. Says Amethea, "I'll be no man's slave and no man's whore! And if I can't kill them all, by the gods, they'll know I've tried!" And try she does...
Seemingly Amethea's whole body has been trained as a weapon, which becomes surprisingly evident when she is strapped topless on a rack ( of the torturing, not Pamela Anderson variety ) with escape impossible, if not for an attempted rape by her captor and the mighty vice like grip of her... er... vagina. I swear to god, I could not make this up. Held painfully in her "grip", the dungeon- master releases her bonds, before he is summarily dispatched into a handy tub of acid.
The film did however spawn a sequel of sorts, as Lana and her "abilities" returned for "Barbarian Queen 2: The Empress Strikes Back". However, as neither the scenario nor characters were the same as the original, the term "sequel" may be a bit of an overstatement. There was even talk of a third outing for the pulchritudinous Miss Clarkson, but that was put to an end with the starlet’s untimely death. Where was her "grip" or the tub of acid that nite at Phil Spector's house?!
Barbarian Queen is more an historical curiosity than anything else, but still curiously enjoyable
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