
SORCERESS
Sword and sorcery movies are perhaps the purest distillation of a ten-year-old boy’s mind that a ten-year-old boy could ever hope for. Yes, yes, I know. Ten year old boys were too young to watch such filth. We were also too young to read Heavy Metal magazine, know who Sylvia Kristel was, and have opinions about the best Playmates. Sword and sorcery movies were great because not only could you stay up late and watch the R-rated ones, but even the PG ones were full of everything we wanted: monsters, gore, and big-boobed chicks wearing tiny fur bikinis, if they were wearing anything at all. And if that represents the purest distillation of a ten-year-old boy’s mind, then the movie Sorceress represents a sort of cask strength version of that particular spirit. Because Sorceress asks the question, “Sure, what if you had all that, but also the heroes are hot, naked twins?”
#1 by supersonic on February 8, 2010 - 2:31 pm
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Curse you, Netflix, for not having all possible movies in your inventory!
#2 by El Santo on February 8, 2010 - 7:39 pm
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Heh. Keith, it sounds like you and I had roughly opposite reactions to the first two Deathstalker movies. The original Deathstalker is one of only two 80’s barbarian films that I enjoy more than Conan the Barbarian (the other being The Warrior and the Sorceress), while Deathstalker II is the sole 80’s barbarian film I’ve seen that I flat-out frigging hate.
#3 by KeithA on February 9, 2010 - 10:25 am
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My relationship with the Deathstalker films is complicated. I think I need to re-examine our time together.
However, we can agree that Warrior & the Sorceress is wonderful. I’m trying to get to that one for this round table.
#4 by surjit singh on April 2, 2010 - 2:35 am
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