Barbarian Queen

Plot synopsis:
A peaceful barbarian village prepares to celebrate the wedding of Queen Amethea (Lana Clarkson) to Prince Argan (Frank Zagarino). During preparations for the wedding ceremony, the forces of Lord Arrakur (Arman Chapman) attack the village, taking Argan and Amethea's younger sister Taramis (Dawn Dunlap) along with several others prisoner and slaughtering the remaining villagers. Amethea, her handmaiden Estrild (Katt Shea) and the female warrior Tiniara (Susana Traverso) survive the attack and set out for Arrakur's city to rescue the others and seek revenge for the destruction of their village.
Along the way the three women come across a small encampment of Arrakur's forces. Amethea and Tiniara ambush and kill the men, discovering Taramis captive inside the camp, who has seemingly been traumatized by her experience and acts withdrawn.
On the outskirts of Arrakur's realm the women meet members of an underground resistance force who agree to help smuggle Amethea's party into the city, but refuse to take up arms with them against the tyrannical Arrakur. Inside the city gates, Amethea discovers Argan and the other men taken from her village are being forced to fight as gladiators in the arena at the center of town. Meanwhile, Taramis notices Arrakur leading a procession of troops into his palace and approaches him. Arrakur recognizes Taramis from the camp and allows her to accompany him inside, while in another part of town Estrild is attacked and raped by two of Arrakur's guards. Amethea and Tiniara come to her defense, but the women are overpowered and taken prisoner.
Estrild is made into one of the harem girls who serve the desires of the gladiators, where she is reunited with Argan, telling him of their failed rescue attempt. Amethea and Tiniara are interrogated separately; Tiniara dies in an escape attempt, while Amethea is sent to the dungeon to be tortured. Arrakur and his new concubine Taramis visit Amethea in the dungeon, where she has been stripped naked save for a leather collar and thong, to find her being stretched on the rack by the chief torturer (Tony Middleton). Taramis pretends to not know Amethea, while Arrakur demands information about the rebels who helped Amethea into the city. Amethea refuses to speak, and Arrakur demands answers by the morning, taking his leave. Meanwhile, Argan, the other gladiators, and Estrild plot an uprising against Arrakur.
The torturer later rapes Amethea, but she uses her feminine strength to squeeze his manhood painfully during the assault, forcing him to release her from the rack, whereupon Amethea hurls him into a pool of acid and escapes the dungeon. Finding Estrild, the two women flee the castle and regroup with the rebels, who agree to help in the planned overthrow of Arrakur's forces led by Argan during the gladatorial games. Amethea and the rebels join with the gladiators in the attack. Amethea fights Arrakur in one-on-one combat during the melee, but is defeated and disarmed by him. Before Arrakur can deliver the killing blow, however, Taramis stabs him in the back, killing him. Amethea and Argan are reunited and celebrate the liberation of the city from Arrakur's tyranny.

Tags: violence, pornographic, cult, murder, sadist

Review:
The Barbarian Queen is Queen Amethea (Lana Clarkson), whose village is burned by evil warriors on the day of her prospective wedding, after which most of the people are killed or enslaved.
Nudity and bondage and fondling yes, but I have to say the most memorable scene occurs when Queen Amethea uses a unique method of escape after she has been captured and tied up in the warrior camp and is being fondled by one of her captors.
If you quite like the idea of half-naked barbarian warrior girls then this might be the film for you.
Barbarian Queen is one of the cycle of sword and sandal flicks that were popular in the mid 80's.
In fact I guess if you were inclined towards political correctness you could label Barbarian Queen as a film that is a little bit sexist.
The story really isn't too important but suffice to say it features a group of Amazonian type women on a quest to get vengeance on a tribe of incredibly misogynistic men who opened up the movie by raping and murdering their people.There's lots of sex and violence in this one.
You have to give a film marks for originality for the likes of this, that's for sure.Barbarian Queen has a story and action that is by-the-numbers really but it gains points for gratuitous excess.
Best reason to see this movie: Lana Clarkson on the rack.
The impression it made on me was one of Lana Clarkson, who plays the lead role, topless and tied to an upright rack while she's tortured with a needle by a smallish man with large glasses.Now the reason she's there:  Amathea (Lana Clarkson) was about to be married to the prince of her village when soldiers charge in and slaughter just about everyone.
Along the way they manage to kill a few straggling soldiers, rescue a woman tied to fence who's topless and has been whipped, and make friends with rebels seeking to overthrow the local ruler.
After the 5 minute torture scene, Amathea throws the torturer into a vat of acid and escapes, freeing the gladiators and the prince and creating a mediocre fight scene wherein the ruler is overthrown and the people are free.Don't see this movie for the plot.
You'll want to see it because the 4 main actresses in the film eventually have nude scenes in this order: rape, nipple play, wrestling, woman on the fence topless, rape, stripped topless, Lana's torture scene.
I'm convinced that the only reason they made a sequel was to show Lana Clarkson on a rack again (see "Barbarian Queen II").
Unless you're into bad barbarian sword-and-sandle movies, mild rape, Lana Clarkson, and/or bondage, you can skip this movie.
Lana Clarkson bares it all in this silly female 'Barbarian' romp that's trashy and entertaining at the same time..
After surviving a brutal attack on her village on the day of her wedding to a tribal prince (Frank Zagarino), a tough female warrior (the late Lana Clarkson) seeks revenge.
Silly, poorly acted (and poorly dubbed) romp is loaded with action and gratuitous nudity (just about every female bares it all, including Clarkson).
Another awful, but hilarious contribution to the Sword & Sorcery genre starring the late Lana Clarkson, Héctor Oliviera's "Barbarian Queen" of 1985, is a film that is absolutely ridiculous in almost any aspect, but that shouldn't be missed by any fan of movies of the "so bad it's good" kind.
Most of these cheaply produced and trashy Sword & Sorcery (or should I say Boobs & Sorcery) flicks are awful as hell, but they're hilarious unintentional comedies, and "Barbarian Queen" is the epitome of such a hilarious (semi?) unintentional comedy.
I personally can't help it - I love films of that kind, awful as they may be, and I personally always laugh my ass of and have the time of my life watching them.This little film's thin plot in particular tells the story of 'barbarian queen' Amethea (Lana Clarkson) who, together with a few other busty female warriors, decides to free her tribe from slavery and tyranny after their village has been razed to the ground by a ruthless tyrant.
It's often stated that this is set in the times of the Roman empire, but the villains really have nothing Roman about them, I'd say the movie is set in a typical, undefinable Sword'n'Sorcery fantasy time, some of the folks look like medieval knights, others like Barbarians from more ancient times...The whole movie is quite similar to an earlier Lana Clarkson movie, "Deathstalker" of 1983, In which she played a role that was almost the same as in this one.
I personally enjoyed Deathstaker more, since it was gorier and the unintentional comedy factor was at times even higher, but "Barbarian Queen" is definitely also recommended if you're looking for a good laugh.
Apart from its value as an unintentional comedy, "Barbarian Queen" delivers a good amount of sleaze, and a busty female cast that gets topless every five minutes."Barbarian Queen" may be a god-awful film, but people with a sense of humor should have a good time watching it and laughing their asses off..
And for that I would actually recommend it for anyone who wants to see a lot of breasts in a low budget Connan rip off.For those who are feeling daring I offer the barbarian Queen Drinking game.
My only reason for watching this film was for the scantily dressed women warriors that were in it, having sex nearly every other scene.
The torture chamber was my favorite scene, and the best line in the movie was when the torturer had Lana Clarkson on the rack, and after a brief torture, he decides to "bone" her.
A decent pace, mildly amusing violence, entertaining if not accomplished acting, a rousing score (credited to James Horner and Christopher Young), and abundant female nudity mix in this fantasy action flick.
It's really no more than average for the genre, but it does deliver the goods for undemanding fans of sword and sandal schlock.Set during the days of the Roman Empire, it stars the buxom Lana Clarkson as Amethea, one of just a few survivors when her peaceful village is attacked.
Amethea teams up with her friend Estrild (played by future director Katt Shea) and the innocent Taramis (Dawn Dunlap) to take on the depraved bad guys, assisted by an underground rebel movement.One has to give these filmmakers credit, as they know exactly what kind of movie they're making.
Although there's not a great deal of actual story here, "Barbarian Queen" moves along fairly well and clocks in at an acceptable 72 minute run time.
The aforementioned score is pleasing, even if the compositions from Horner are lifted - in typical Roger Corman fashion - from the earlier "Battle Beyond the Stars".Clarkson is an appealing heroine, and Shea does well as her equally strong friend.
Tony Middleton is fun to watch as the torturer Zohar, in a sequence that's sure to delight viewers.Filmed on location in Argentina, this can boast some respectable production value.Six out of 10..
The twist with this one is with Lana Clarkson, the D-cup destroyer from Deathstalker, and she is a kind of pre-Xena fighting wiz.
While not as terrible as some in this genre (ie: Red Sonja, Warrior Queen), Barbarian Queen is still indifferently acted, poorly produced, and ill-cowceived.
Almost typical female barbarian action with lots of swordplay and lousy plot.
Allmost typical because the Mighty Female Barbarians are looking like big eyed, blond haired Hollywood bimbos.
The only reason I can recommend this movie is if you want to see women showing off their tits.
Sloppy editing, bad acting (Lana Clarkson and Katt Shea shows their acting talents (both of them) and crap music.
The story is promising enough (as a revenge flick), but the warrior women only manage to get captured every few minutes so that they can be tortured (topless, of course).
Terrible, terrible, terrible movie, that came out during the outburst of Conan clones of the early to mid Eighties, based on a no-plot or always the same plot situation and plethora of good looking women, possibly naked and often raped, that eventually get their revenge and won the day.
This one shows the beauty that was the late Lana Clarkson, already cast in several other movies of that kind, as a very unfortunate bride to be that saw her village devastated the day of her marriage and her sister and spouse ransomed by savages.
When all of a sudden Roman soldiers attack the peaceful village, kill the man and rape the woman and sell them as slaves.
the bottom of the sword & sorcery barrel, fling this one in the dung heap along with it's sequel.My Grade: F Eye Candy: Lana Clarkson, Dawn Dunlap, Katt Shea, and Susana Traverso get topless.
An unenterprising addition to the (rightly) maligned '80s genre of the sword-and-sorcery movie (you'd be well advised to check out the likes of DEATHSTALKER and THE SWORD AND THE SORCERER instead of this uninspiring dreck) whose sole purpose seems to be to show as many naked women throughout the film as possible.
But this isn't soft-core porn by any means; instead it's a low budget action epic, shot on the cheap in Argentina by a talentless bunch of guys who don't know two things about fight choreography (case in point: compare this film with a similar Shaw Brothers sword-fighting epic – no contest).The film deserves note – and perhaps credit – for portraying some feisty and powerful female warriors who easily overthrow their male oppressors, but then proceed to turn this idea on its head by insisting that all of the female performers be naked or raped at one time or another.
Although female torture, rape and molestation may sound unpleasant, rest assured that this film portrays the scenes as weakly and routinely as it can, without power.Lana Clarkson ("I'll be no man's slave and no man's whore!
The middle section of the film consists of torture and contains an amusing scene of a guy being thrown into an acid bath, but that's about it.Despite the inclusion of some muscular men in a gladiator battle, the excitement level is null.
Expect to see a level of film-making so cheap, unimaginative and unskilled that you can barely bother to watch the movie at all.
The flagrant sexist behaviour left so little to desire about this film, I got sick of seeing womens breasts and them getting raped I had to turn it off!
I wouldn't recommend this to any one female unless you think womens bits are of any interest to you.
As a fan of these types of movies (the "sword and sandal" genre), I have seen quite a few.
Even in the most cheaply produced ones, I can point to at least something I liked in the movie.However, with "Barbarian Queen", there is not a single good scene or even one bit of dialogue that distinguishes the film.
An hour into the film, it still has not advanced beyond the "warrior women being pursued by lusty men--interspaced with swordfight scenes".One of the most annoying things in the movie is the unconvincing nature of the lead actresses.
They can hardly lift a sword, and deliver unconvincing and wobbly strokes against men who are twice their size.The music contains excerpts from other Corman films, like "Battle Beyond the Stars" and "Deathstalker".
The costumes of the evil guards and soldiers (such as the headware) are lifted also from the latter film.Of course, with a Corman-produced film you aren't expecting Ingmar Bergman-like quality.
My discovery of B movie Barbarian Queen has to do with it is part of a four film collection of Roger Corman produced 80's sword and sorcery films.
Former Playboy model Lana Clarkson does look good here and so does the rest of the female cast.
Our story is set in Roman times, but the film does little to make it period correct or Roman.
Lana Clarkson and friends unite to fight the evil empire, but mostly must avoid rape(and attempted rape) by fighting real stupid and horny men.
Do not get me wrong, the Deathstalker films are totally ridiculous as well, but they pull off being entertaining where Barbarian Queen fails miserably at.
Lana Clarkson appears in the first Deathstalker film to boot and has less screen time, but is much more memorable than she is here.
I have no problem with women kicking ass, but this film is poor and I would have found my time better spent rewatching Red Sonja or episodes of Xena Warrior Princess..
Feisty warrior Queen Amethea (winningly essayed with delightful go-for-it spunky relish by the gorgeously voluptuous Lana Clarkson; Kaira in "Deathstalker") and several luscious female companions (who include future director Katt Shea Ruben of "Stripped to Kill" and "Dance of the Damned" fame) go to Arrakur's kingdom to free their people.
Directed with suitably lowbrow flair by Hector Olivera, this gleefully trashy low-budget sword and sorcery fantasy action exploitation romp certainly delivers the expected sleazy goods with a pleasing blend of energy and abundance: we're got plenty of priceless dopey dialogue (all-time favorite line: "You're much too beautiful a girl to let yourself be broken into food for the royal dogs"), a constant speedy pace, lots of gratuitously bared distaff skin on frequent display (cute'n'cuddly brunette hottie supreme Dawn Dunlap in particular looks absolutely yummy as Amethea's sweet innocent younger sister Taramis), several exciting gory sword fights, a rousing score by James Horner and Chris Young, and a memorably disgusting bespectacled nerd torturer who uses a metal claw to paw one of Amethea's breasts.
I watched Barbarian Queen after seeing several movies made by Argentina filmmakers at the United States Film Festival (a.k.a Sundance) back in the 80s.
One of the films , "Night of the Pencils," was made by the very same director, Hector Olivera, of "Barbarian Queen." Pencils is a serious film that examines the brutalization of several young folk during the Junta years.
When I came across Barbarian Queen, I was some what surprised that this obvious exploitation sword and sorcery was made by the same guy.
Barbarian Queen is about a group of villagers taken captive by an evil regime.
And while the film does wallow in the same rape fantasy that populated a big chunk of these sword & sorcery b-movies, there is one sequence I think that more honestly displays Olivera's view.
It is very satisfying when he gets his at the business end of Clarkson's sword.
It certainly makes Barbarian Queen more interesting for me than it probably deserves..
After co-starring in the first Deathstalker film, Lana Clarkson would return to star in this Roger Corman produced schlockfest.
Sadly, despite comedic turns in films like Fast Times at Ridgemont High (she's Vincent Schiavelli's wife in a quick scene) and Amazon Women on the Moon (I really need to get to that movie soon), as well as other action films Vice Girls, her career stalled by the early 2000's.
Let's celebrate her starring role in a movie that somehow is at once a feminist adventure epic and a misogynistic wallow in the muck.A peaceful barbarian village - is there any other kind - is all in a tizzy about the wedding of Queen Amethea (Clarkson) to Prince Argan (Frank Zagarino, Tan Zan: The Ultimate Mission).
Lord Aarkur and his men attack, taking Argan and Taramis (Dawn Dunlap, Forbidden World) captive.You may be thinking - oh cool, this movie is woke and the man is the captive in peril, not the woman, who is the hero - but this is a Roger Corman sword and sorcery movie.
So even through Amethea, Estrild (Katt Shea, who went on to direct Stripped to Kill, Poison Ivy and The Rage: Carrie 2) and Tiniara are going to fight and kill lots of evil creatures and baddies, they're also going to get naked, tortured and me too'd for pretty much the entire film.I was going to write, "I don't know the audience for a movie that wants to see barbarian women get raped," but I totally know the audience.Let's try and get past it.
But maybe you can get revenge.By the end of the movie, Estrild is a harem girl, Tiniara has been killed, Taramis becomes Arrakur's concubine and our main heroine, Amethea, has been tortured repeatedly but comes out on top, tossing the interrogator into a pit of acid after using "her feminine strength to squeeze his manhood painfully" as per Wikipedia.
So even in her moment of triumph, a Corman film reveals that women need treachery to win, not outright skill.The first film from Corman's Concorde company, Barbarian Queen was directed by Héctor Olivera as part of a nine-picture deal.
Corman wanted low-budget sword-and-sorcery films.
This union led to this film, as well as Cocaine Wars, Wizards of the Lost Kingdom, Two to Tango and Play Murder for Me. I think Corman's vision won out, sadly.There's an in-name-only sequel and Clarkson played a character called Amethea in Wizards of the Lost Kingdom II who has nothing to do with this character.
There was also a third film planned.In later years, Corman has claimed that this movie inspired Xena: Warrior Princess.
Again you must check out the poster for this film, so so very sexy and awesome yet as usual nothing like the actual movie, such a shame.Set in the Roman era apparently, never noticed myself, the plot revolves around a small band of female warriors and their Queen trying to save the Queens sister from nasty Romans.
All the sword fighting is pretty hokey looking but its fun to watch all the extras pretend to be proper swordsmen/women.End of the day I watched this because of the cool film title.
Its Corman and its all about big breasted blonde women in skimpy outfits with swords killing men, expect nothing less.2/10