Hundra

Plot synopsis:
Hundra belongs to a tribe of Amazons. She is the only tribe member of her age who has never been with a man. She declares she would keep it like that. One day when she goes hunting, her tribe is outnumbered and slaughtered by barbarians. As the only survivor she travels to an old wise woman and asks her for advice. To her surprise she is told she ought to become a mother in order to prevent the final extinction of the Amazons. Subsequently Hundra seeks a father for her child. The first candidate has bad manners and it turns out that he is suffering with a sadistic personality disorder. While she continues her search she is confronted by a murderous robber baron who only wants to kill her. Later she encounters an effeminate pimp. Eventually she gets to know a gentleman who works as healer. She asks him to become the father of her child but she is told that a man won't get in the right mood if he is approached in an all too blunt way. Hundra asks other women to help her to live up to his expectations. Consequently she succeeds in seducing him, gets pregnant and delivers a child. Unfortunately now an evil pagan priest kidnaps Hundra's daughter. Thus Hundra is coerced into joining a sinister ritual where the priest's followers humiliate her. During this session she is informed that her new friends have freed the child. She fights back and returns to her home lands. The female narrator explains there was proof that Hundra's spirit kept on living in all women ever since.

Tags: revenge, cult, murder, violence

Review:
US/Spanish co-production with bloody scenes , spectacular fights , enjoyable score and being filmed in Almeria.
Thrilling and stirring movie full of imagination and fantasy that introduces us a brave heroine , female counterpart to Conan , she leads a valiant tribe of women who dares to be free .
This is a delightful action/adventure romp set in the Dark Ages , where savage and violent men enslave all women .
There appears a valiant warrior woman , her name is Hundra (Laurene Landon) , a Red Sonja-alike , she was born in a tribe of fierce warrior women .
Hundra is an archer and sword fighter , whose Amazon tribe was wiped by nasty Vikings in some scenes similarly shot to Conan film .
Hundra The Invincible finds her family slain and takes a vow of vendetta until one day she meets her match (Ramiro Oliveros) .This exciting film packs noisy action , adventure, and rip-roaring fights .
Sympathetic performance by Laurene Landon as Hundra the Invincible , a valiant woman who has been raised to despise the influence of men , she the finest warrior of her people .
The following year Matt joined forces with actress Laurene Landon for Hundra (1983) and Yellow Hair & the Pecos Kid (1984) , both of them being shot in Spain with similar cast and technicians .
The female narrator makes it clear that the men feared the women living a life on their own and either wanted to enslave them or kill them.As for the nudity part.
The women were meant to be shown as worthless slaves, pieces of meat for the men to use as they pleased.The one point I'd make is that ALL the men in the film are for the most part shown to be utter pigs and violent to woman.
Beautiful blonde warrior woman Hundra (Laurene Landon) would rather have a good horse between her legs than a man, but after a savage attack on her tribe by a horde of hairy barbarians she is forced to seek out a mate to ensure the continuation of her people.Matt Cimber's Hundra supposedly turns the tables on the male-dominated fantasy genre with a barbarian woman who is more than a match for any man; it soon becomes apparent, however, that the feminist angle is just for show, the film exploiting its female star's physical appeal—and that of the other women in the film—just as much as any other B-movie trash.
Bad news for the women's liberation movement, but good news for fans of sexy ladies in small loincloths.Landon's wooden delivery of her lines makes it abundantly clear that she was not hired for her acting ability, but rather for her sex appeal and athleticism.
Hundra might swing her sword as skillfully as any Cimmerian, but she does so in a skimpy outfit that frequently gives glimpses of her shapely behind; when she's not fighting, she likes to go for a naked ride through the surf on her horse.Cheap titillation aside, Cimber's movie is at its most entertaining whenever there is fighting, the blood flowing freely as Hundra hacks and stabs at her opponents; however, there is a prolonged absence of action once our heroine enters a city where the local high priest, whose temple doubles as a knocking shop for barbarians, vows to add her to his stock of subservient women.
While avoiding capture, Hundra falls in love, gets pregnant, gives birth to a daughter, and teaches a slave girl how to fight, all of which is fairly dull to watch.Things eventually pick up for a rousing finalé (aided immensely by Ennio Morricone's epic score) in which Hundra rallies the women to revolt against their captors, but despite more bloodletting and the hilarious demise of the high priest (a woman suffocates him by straddling his face), Hundra remains a fairly mediocre affair overall..
Hundra, a fabulous warrior woman sets out to punish via execution as many of us wicked man things she can.
Yeah, the entire concept is kinda dumb but its actually one of the better Conan type films made in that era...the genre was not done justice.
The first is the one where Hundra's tribe is attacked, and the second is the ending which might possibly go down as one of the best heroic endings of all time.
The images are great, the effects great and Ennio Morricones music score is a stirring operatic piece that makes everything seem of epic importance (But its really not).In Summary Fans of Fantasy Movies Rejoice.
Because Hundra is one of the best fighting films ever.
Hundra is one of the best films of its genre.
This movie is 100 times better than its sister film "Yellow Hair and the Fortress of Gold" also starring Laurene Landon and filmed back to back..
This lightweight bit of silly feminist twaddle has Laurene Landon as a female Conan the Barbarian-type woman who really hates males (even berating her dog for being a guy) who goes on a quest of vengeance after her village is devested by pig-headed males (figutively, of course).
Be it Landon's awful reading of the script, midgets who lack depth perception, Hundra riding naked through the shoreline for no reason whatsoever, the general inaneness of the story, or a combination of those elements, the flick is quite watchable IF you have a high tolerance for films of this nature.
The movie also seems to go on to long and could've used some tighter editing.Subversive Cinema's DVD Extras (R1): 47 and a half minute Making of 'Hunting Hundra'; Cast biographies; Theatrical trailer (with nudity); and Trailers for "Future Kill" (with nudity), "Sensetive new age Killer" (with brief nudity), "Dust Devil", "Wild Blue Yunder", & "Land of Look Behind" Easter Egg: got to the special features section, then on to 'Credits', while in that menu press right for a 2 minute and 50 second easter egg video clip of Laurene Landon talking about working with Robert Aldrich and confusing him with Robert Altman (she hasn't aged well at all).
I don't care for the sword-and-sandal fantasy genre that permeated the 80's with movies like the CONAN films and RED SONJA and BEASTMASTER.
Except one member of the tribe, Hundra (Laurene Landon), can't be bothered to contribute a child.
One fateful day, while Hundra is out on a hunting run, her tribe is attacked by a band of barbarian men who rape and pillage, leaving no survivors.
And so Hundra must enter the world of men and find a suitable mate with which to fulfill her destiny.What I think I enjoy most about HUNDRA is that it feels like a horribly misogynistic film with a main character who didn't get the memo and proceeds to rebel against the script and film itself as the ultimate icon of women empowerment.
It would be one thing if the men were just abusive and sexist, but the fact that Hundra's destiny is to find a nice man and get pregnant, and that she's cool with it, means the women don't seem too keen on fighting this imagery.
When Hundra first comes face-to-face with Pateray (Ramiro Oliveros), a healer in the city of men where she spends the second half of the film, and he turns her away because he's not the type of dude to randomly sleep with any woman who comes crashing through his roof, her response is to allow herself to get captured and imprisoned in the temple where she knows she'll receive training in proper use of lipstick, eye shadow, and forks.
It could just be that I'm having a hard time understanding what it is this movie is attempting to tell me (and, keep in mind, this came out in 1983it was a different time) and I'm just infinitely amused at how this is the most misogynistic "girl power" film I've ever seen.This isn't your average low-budget fare either.
Few people in this movie are, with exceptions for Ramiro Oliveros (who was genuinely decent) and Luis Lorenzo (who gave a scene-chewing performance as the high priest's adviser in charge of sex slaves).
HUNDRA was written and directed by Matt Cimber, and I love when low budget movies are written and directed by the same person (bonus points if produced as well) because it means there's a lower chance that someone will stand up to them when things just aren't working.
Cimber thought they'd be iconic scenes and add legitimacy, but they're memorable for the complete opposite reason.Striving to be more than it is, HUNDRA falls short but manages to entertain in spite (and perhaps in part) of its shortcomings.
Of the half dozen Z-grade movies I've treated myself to recently, HUNDRA is probably the only one I'd be willing to acknowledge as genuinely entertaining and not just schlocky fun.
The plot's a little stupid, the messages seem confused, and the tones are all over the place (the rapist beatdown is accompanied by music suitable for the sweetest scenes in THE PRINCESS BRIDE) but despite all that, Hundra is a strong female presence in a movie that tries its hardest to whip her in line.
In a mythological land, a female tribe is slaughtered by marauding male barbarians leaving the warrior Hundra as the lone survivor.
Soon, she winds up in a walled city run by a group of chauvinistic men.Hundra has the one original angle of being a feminist slant on the sword and sorcery cycle of films from the mid-80's.
So Hundra stands out a little from the crowd, although Red Sonja from a few years later was coming from a similar place.
But, that said, there are good fight scenes that bookend the film.
And the production values overall seem pretty good with some decent locations and a stirring Ennio Morricone score to add some additional class.
After her all-woman tribe gets wiped out by some nasty men for no reason, Hundra takes off in search of a man to impregnate her (hopefully with a girl) to ensure the tribe does not die out for good.
After giving the aforementioned men what-for, Hundra, her horse and her pet dog that follows her around everywhere, travel in search of the perfect man for the job.
After a failed attempt with a drunken slob who Hundra ends up thumping, she arrives in a near-by desert village run by a chauvinist pig and his merry men.
Meanwhile, she falls for the village doctor and wants him to be the father of her child, but he is not very willing...Hundra could possibly be the world's earliest feminist.
She hates men and is strongly for women's rights, trying to force her beliefs on every woman she comes across later in the film.
Hundra tries and tries and finally convinces the teacher to fight back against the prince and his merry men, and stand-up for her rights.
Doing her bit for the women of the village, Hundra takes her baby and rides off into the sunset, ready to try and replenish her tribe so that they may thrive again...With the feminist themes, this film is an interesting twist on the abundant sword and sorcery plot.
Hundra Needs A Baby - that sums up this film minus the fighting of course.
Hundra goes out to hunt for a man of the wolf clan to have a baby with.The movie is alright - not too bad.
It's a sincere film with a handful of comical scenes (like the belching & farting man).This is a pretty decent sword and sorcery type of movie if you like the Conan types of films - except this one is focused on a female barbarian.5/10.
Agree that lead actress shows more athleticism than others in the genre, her fight scenes are better than most.
Despite the pseudo feminist pretentiousness, the only reason to check out this film is to look at how gorgeous the tall blonde Laurene Landon is.
Fierce and fearless warrior woman Hundra (a splendidly sassy and spirited portrayal by gorgeous Amazonian blonde goddess Laurene Landon) declares open war on vile and oppressive misogynistic male swine after her whole village gets butchered by a foul horde of guy marauders.
Ably directed by Matt Cimber, with a clever and witty script by Cimber and frequent collaborator John Goff (the plot basically serves as a nifty metaphor for the many ways men tend to degrade and dominate over women), several stirring and well-staged swordfights, a handy helping of raw and bloody violence (the opening massacre sequence is especially brutal), bright, crisp, glowing widescreen cinematography by John Cabrera, a constant brisk pace, breathtaking Spanish countryside scenery, a decent sprinkling of tasty nudity, a winning sense of tongue-in-cheek humor (at one point Hundra encounters an aggressive face-painted midget on horseback who attacks her with a pitchfork!), and a first-rate rousing'n'robust full-bore orchestral score by the great Ennio Morricone, "Hundra" makes for an immensely fun and satisfying little corker.
Best of all, Landon attacks her plumb lead role with tremendously thrilling gusto and passion: Laurene looks simply smashing in her buckskin outfit, wields a truly mean sword, delivers her pro-woman speeches with fiery aplomb, and even performed almost all of her own stunts.
In the past few weeks, I've watched a number of movies with Amazon-style man-hating tribes who only seek the company of men for the purposes of procreation.
Wiped out, that is, except for a hunter/warrior named Hundra (Laurene Landon) who vows to get even for the slaughter of her sisters.
But to do so, Hundra will need the help of the very same men she seeks for revenge.Based on my rating, it should be obvious that I have some real problems with Hundra.
Getting past the film's mixed message, Hundra is, for the most part, a poorly made, badly paced, and horribly acting movie.
As for the film's lead Laurene Landon, she's honestly one of the worst actresses I've seen in a while.
And it doesn't help that the longest fight during Hundra's climax was shown in slow-motion.Before I end this, I feel I should mention one very obvious highlight of Hundra  Ennio Morricone's score.
There's one particular piece of music played during the film's final fight scene that almost makes the movie worthwhile.
A peculiar sub-genre which arose at the time was that of the 'Feminist Fantasy Film' – best described as Conan-style movies in which the main character is always portrayed by a woman with considerable sword-wielding prowess.
Well-known titles in this field would include the likes of Red Sonja, Gwendoline and Barbarian Queen, but the first film to use this idea was actually the 1983 offering Hundra.
Alas, apart from introducing a new slant to this Neanderthal genre, Hundra comes across as a pretty dismal movie.A tribe of women survive in the wilderness without a single man amongst their number.
One member of the tribe – fierce, independent warrioress Hundra (Laurene Landon) – refuses to have any dealings with man-folk and proudly declares that she will never have children, preferring instead to hunt and kill and serve as a protector to the tribe.
One day, while Hundra is away on an expedition, the entire tribe is slaughtered by an army of men.
When Hundra returns, she finds that she is the last of her kind and the only way she can repopulate the tribe is by going amongst the very men that massacred her brethren to find a suitable mate.
But her fighting instinct refuses to stay down and she is soon leading a rebellion against the men-folk and their chauvinistic ways.It's hard to find many positives to say about Hundra.
The film's message is as muddled as its perceived target audience – on the one hand, we are told how misogynistic men are and asked to celebrate as a woman hacks them down to size; yet at the same time we have this crusading warrioress riding around on her horse in the nude, showing plenty of tit, bum and pubic hair.
The best way to approach Hundra is as a pure sword and sorcery film – it might not be a very good example of the genre, but it sure beats trying to figure out the movie's unfathomably cockeyed politics!.
He also created and directed the original Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling TV show (he's played by Marc Maron and named Sam Sylvia in the Netflix series).Today, we're here to discuss Hundra, one of the two films he made with Laurene Landon (the other is Yellow Hair and the Fortress of Gold).Hundra is the only youngster in her tribe of Amazons who hasn't been with a man and she has no problem letting the other ladies know.
Sadly, every member of her tribe soon gets killed by barbarians and the old wise woman wants her to have kids rather than get revenge.
Technically-speaking, Hundra could be an OK B-grade Conan-era movie : nice visuals, great Ennio Morriconne music, enough budget for decent locations, etc.
Females want to submit, enslave, rape and most of the time kill men.
Every men hates every women, and vice-versa.Could a fantasy world like this possibly exist?
NO, because :Most of the women do want to have a relationship and sex with men.
Most of the men do not maim, rape and kill women.
She finds a man she wants to have a child with, goes to the temple because she thinks that is what he is looking for.
Anyway all ends well as the bad guys die off when Hundra's child is rescued.
HUNDRA is another gender-swap variant on CONAN THE BARBARIAN, much like SHE and RED SONJA; the main difference is that this film is absolutely terrible.
It's directed by the awful Matt Cimber, whose YELLOW HAIR film was equally dreadful, and like that film it stars non-acting blonde starlet Laurene Landon.
The plot is a straight copy of that of CONAN, with Hundra's village being massacred while she goes on a rampage of revenge afterwards.