Warrior Queen

Warrior Queen

Warrior Queen

Warrior Queen

You'll want a long shower after watching this. If Rome was corrupt, how are we less corrupt for enjoying the same licentious entertainments? But anyways... Sybil Danning portrays the Biblical figure, Berenice. She implies she is a Jewess, and sympathizes with the slaves, whom have been brought from Judea. She has a couple of fights, and chases away the giant Lou Ferrigno clone. The heroic guy kills him, and gets the girl; while Vesuvius erupts and destroys Pompeii. If you like flesh, there is some. Although in the 21st century, this old flick might not be your first choice. If you like fighting, there is a little. If you like drama, there isn't much. Nor is there much of a plot. Seen on Tubi, the free streaming site, which has an odd variety of old TV, live TV, and old movies.

(1987) Warrior Queen HISTORICAL ACTION DRAMA My rating is strictly for it's entertainment value, as I have seen my fair share of quick cash spaghetti gladiator movies. I appreciate the fact there is nothing sugar coating about the Roman-like environment, and the last days of Pompeii is no different different. It has Warrior Queen, Berenice (Sybil Danning) her traveling troupe being attacked by bandits in search of gold and jewels. And of course, Berenice kills them in an unconvincing manner before she stops by at Pompeii, dropping by at the middle of a slave selling bidding war. That has a ruthless slave owner, Victo (David Brandon) winning to own supposed virgin of Vespa (Tally Chanel) and two young couple who are in love with each other of Roberto (Mario Cruciani) and Veneria (Suzanna Smith). Donald Pleasence also stars as Clodius the ruler of Pompeii married to sleazy trophy wife, Philomena (Samantha Fox) who is in love with idealist, Marcus (Rick Hill). There is a soap opera element to this, and although it's low budget and that majority of the fights looked fake, some of the * scenes looked real, as well as the cruel way how people are treated is real. And without sugar coating it, the implications in regarding the gladiator games are innovative, even though it may not be exactly the way it happened such as the a razor sharp frisbee like blade, and two gladiator's swinging back and forth from opposite sides each wearing a spiked glove. The implication that there is nudity and make out scenes happening throughout is false, as there was barely any in the last 35 minutes as I had set there's a soap opera. Element into this. It's sometimes be boring if gladiator times like Spartacus, Troy, Cleopatra and Ben-Hur to name a few are sugar coated to suit family oriented viewers when we both know that is not how it used to be back then.

It made me long for the unlicensed pharmaceuticals I haven't used in three decades. Could be a great drinking game, boob drink, stab drink, scrawny chick defeats Roman soldier,............... Sadly, I also eschew the grape. Sigh.

Thought it'd be a laugh, it partially was but some sections were uncomfortable to watch. Donald Pleasance is the only actor featured who holds any sort of respectability and I don't know what made him do this film. 1/10: Mindless film without a plot or proper characters.

I'm literally only a half hour in and I'm bored out of my mind. I was lucky... if you can call it that... to find a 79min version of this movie, a direct rip from a fairly bad VHS copy, but I did find it. I think if I had the shorter copy that I would still be checking my watch. I'm certainly no prude, I see a pretty girl flash a bit of skin (or more) and it tickles the senses a bit, but it's usually followed by a plot of some kind that at least keeps your attention. This movie... there is no plot. I repeat a lot of what other reviewers have already said about the (non) acting of Sybil Danning (not that she was Oscar material to begin with) and the obvious over(re)acting of Donald Pleasence. He can certainly ham it up like many other actors, but there was nothing for him to play off of in this movie, I felt like he was literally carrying the whole movie and trying to make his character work, but with nothing to work with. I think what bugs me the most about the acting is no one even attempted to un-Americanize the dialogue. There have always been pure American actors playing Greek/Roman characters, but for most movies they at least tried to tone down the more modern speech, like saying "have not" instead of "haven't" (bad example, but you get what I mean). The sets and costumes are ok, but there are a few interiors that just look like someone rented out their house with the open floor plan and just had some pillars put up. The cart at the beginning looks more like it should be at a renfest instead of a movie, it just looks really out of place for the time this is set in. At least it has a chariot! A chariot that looks like it should have had chrome hubcaps and racing stripes. It's not the worst movie I've ever seen, it's just boring. I'll make it through, it's just gonna take me a bit...

Warrior Queen (1987) is a movie I recently watched on Amazon Prime. The storyline follows the slave and prostitution trade during the days of Pompeii. When a female queen emerges and rises up the ranks she uses her powers to change the slave and trade business and free the victims of the system. This movie is directed by Chuck Vincent (Sex Drive) and stars Sybil Danning (Amazon Women on the Moon), Donald Pleasence (Halloween), Rick Hill (Liar Liar), Samantha Fox (Jack+Jill) and David Brandon (StageFright). The female auction is an A+ and was my favorite part of the movie. The props, unfortunately, were poorly constructed. The background music was funny and the storyline was painful. It felt like just a reason to put hot girls in a movie. There were some good kill scenes and I got a good chuckle from the Lou Ferrigno lookalike. Overall this is a bad movie that is only worth watching for the ladies and unique circumstances. I would score this a 4/10 and recommend watching it once.

Sword and sandals smut with Sybil Danning(who looks bored throughout the whole film) as the supposed Queen of the title. The film depicts the life of various people before Pompeii is blasted by a volcanic eruption. Donald Pleasence(Claudius) is ruler of Pompeii, who tries his damnedest(..to no avail)to please his highness, Danning(Berenice), through forms of entertainment. You have pretty bad actress Tally Chanel(Vespa) vacantly portraying a beautiful blonde virgin(..cackle..snort..)slave becoming a love interest to her valiant hero Rick Hill(Marcus)who rescues her from strongman brute Marco Tullio Cau(Goliath) as he attempts to violently molest her. You have * star Samantha Fox as the wife of Pleasence's ruler who carries a lustful torch for Hill's Marcus. This is pure exploitation where slaves are hung upside down naked as the rich toss out wagers for them as if they were cattle. You have sounds of orgiastic pleasure on the soundtrack echoing the chamber halls where the film spends ample time showing the same boring sex scenes gratuitously repeating over and over. There are some coliseum gladiatorial combat sequences like the discus throw where Goliath stabs a member of the audience heckling him and his opponent in the belly with the poor guy's guts sliding out. You have an arm wrestling match where if the loser's hand falls onto the spike he dies of poisoning. Pleasence tries to please Danning by capturing doves in a net..yes, sad, isn't it? Goliath forces a royal, out-bidding him on Vespa, to swallow an obscene amount of gold coins. And, to top it all off..juxtaposed in this cheap-ass film, during the volcanic eruption that closes this travesty, are scenes directly lifted from another movie. Geniuinely awful movie might be perfect fodder for Grade Z connoisseurs..it's rancid cinema of the lowest order which might work wonders for masochists looking for the next painful experience. Pleasence's role might be worth some laughs if you don't pity him. At the very least, the film has nudity in abundance and could be excepted as enjoyable trash. You've been told, so don't come crying to me after you waste precious amounts of time alive on this heap of garbage. Fantastic VHS box cover, though. If Danning would've showed her tits, I might've been kind enough to give this three stars instead of two..oh, well.