Friday, April 26, 2013

B-Movie Review: Barbarian Queen (1985)

Oh yes, it's 80's Sword and Sorcery again. And it's another Fake Feminist Movie, you know one of those that pretend to be all about strong female characters and female empowerment, while they really are aimed towards horn men who want to see half naked chicks and BOOBS.

So we begin at some nice river bank, in some untouched paradise where a blonde hottie is picking flowers. Of course she's quickly attacked by some ugly dudes, and then she's raped.

Next we visit a nearby idyllic Barbarian village, where a Prince is about to get married to the main character. We know she's the main character because she's Lara Clarkson, and because she's marrying a prince. She's worried about her missing sister though (the girls who picked flowers and was raped in the beginning). But before the marriage ceremony can even begin soldiers attack the village. The Prince and his friend: Large Man with a Big Stick are competent fighters themselves and takes out several soldiers, and our main heroine is of course also a very competent fighter. She takes out a dude about to rape her best friend for example (yes BOOBS!). But in the end everyone except our Heroine and her Friend are captured or killed. Our Heroine of course swear to free the slaves and take revenge on the evil soldiers. The soldiers all wore silly hats, so I guess they are from the Silly Hat Empire. They are soon joined by another survivor, a Warrior Woman who escaped her captors. Together the threesome goes down the river by canoe.

They soon reach a Soldier Outpost, and kill the soldiers, and tries to free their harem of slaves, but only one slave survives, the sister of our Heroine (although she appear to have become a little screwy in her head). Next they find a community of farmers that also has been attacked by the soldiers. A little boy among the survivors show them to some underground catacombs that lead under the city of the Silly Hat Empire. In these catacombs there hides a small group of rebels lead by the boy's father. The father is some kind of one armed healer.

So our Heroine then goes into the city incognito and learn her fiancee and his friend have become gladiators. Meanwhile her Friend who is supposed to watch her Sister loses sight of her, and the Sister decide to go inside the inner city where only soldiers and their slave whores can go. The Friend is caught by soldiers and raped, but our Heroine and the Warrior Woman catches up with her and tries to free her, which causes a ruckus and they end up fighting loads of soldiers and are all captured. The Warrior Woman is tortured, tries to escape and is killed. The Main Bad Guy, the leader of the city and commander of the soldiers tries to rape the Heroine, but she bite him in the face, which naturally makes him angry. The Main Bad Guy is quite ok. He can certainly be quite menacing. All the bad guys are super cheesy evil archetypes by the way. Thus making them very entertaining to watch.

The Heroine is taken to a Torture Chamber managed by a Jewish Scientist. Ooooh, RACISM! Sweet, sweet RACISM. Hooray! Of course the evil Scientist straps her to his machine and start to rape her (what else), but she squeezed his dick so hard it hurts and he has no choice but to release her. Then she throws him into a pool of boiling liquid, not sure if it's water or oil (what, of course he has a pool of boiling liquid, who doesn't?) Meanwhile the Friend is taken to a Gladiator's Brothel, to be a Gladiator's Whore. There she finds the Prince and his Friend, and it turns out the Friend and the Friend are lovers!! They plan to make the gladiators rise up against the soldiers, and need the help of the rebels. The Sister has become the Main Bad Guy's little plaything. All this set up for a climatic end battle and quite a satisfying ending. But this movie IS A LIE! There's no Barbarian Queen, and even if the Heroine marries her Prince, she does not become a Queen.

But all in all, quite a satisfying movie. It has BOOBS, it has some fights, although I've seen better. The dialog is okay, not terribly bad at all. All in all, quite good. I recommend a watch,


Sorry for my absence

Sorry, has had other things on my mind lately. However I can't escape the reviews forever. There will be one up today.