BA_Harrison Sword-swinging warrior Deathstalker (Rick Hill, in an unconvincing blond wig) embarks on a quest to unite the three powers - a sword, an amulet and a chalice - in order to defeat evil magician Munkar (Bernard Erhard), who has seized the throne from the rightful king. Or some such nonsense.To be honest, the plot isn't all that important. What is important is that the makers of this sword and sorcery movie know not to take matters too seriously, taking the cheeze-o-meter up to eleven, making the film a lot of fun despite its obvious budgetary restraints.The result is a gloriously tacky flick featuring all manner of silliness, with lashings of nudity and a smattering of gore. Female warrior Kaira (the lovely Lana Clarkson) wanders around with her tits out (as do most of the women in the film); Deathstalker encounters a troll-like creature in a cave (a crappy John Carl Buechler creation); Munkar keeps an eye-ball-eating pet monster in a wooden chest; there's a debauched feast at Munkar's castle that features female mud-wrestling; a pig-man pulls a bloke's arm off and uses it as a weapon; and Munkar meets a bloody demise, pulled apart by horses.6.5 out of 10, rounded up to 7 for Clarkson, and beautiful Barbi Benton as sexy Princess Codille.

artsx What a nightmare! It should be minus points for this sort of flicks. Nothing is worth of attention and the mechanical music is a symbol of the bad taste and complete lack of talents of its creators. If someone is interested only in boobs or on the other hand in beautiful face of a leading role played by Rick Hill may waste his/her spare time but there is tones of better that kind of movies elsewhere.

Neil Welch With the success of Conan The Barbarian came a host of direct-to-video "epics" in the sword and sorcery vein. Never one to knowingly let a bandwagon go by without hopping onto it, Roger Corman contributed to the genre with Deathstalker.At the time, I sucked this stuff up avidly as it came out, haunting the video store, looking for something which had production values. Well, Deathstalker has production values but, unfortunately, most of it went on the wigs - there are some truly exotic hairpieces here, including the one played by our hero (whose name, incidentally, gives the film its title - "Deathstalker". I can just imagine the scene in the maternity hospital - "So, Mr and Mrs Jones, what are you going to call the little fellow?" "Well, we thought Deathstalker. He'll be a lovely little companion for his brothers Bloodsprayer and Slaughtermonger. Slaughtermonger's going to be a florist when he grows up.") Deathstalker is played by Rick Hill, who had a minor career in TV and this sort of DTV tosh, including 3 sequels to this particular movie. Unfortunately, he looks rather like Ben Stiller with a blonde mullet, which doesn't lend credibility for a modern audience.It is worth pointing out that we see quite a lot - literally - of the late Lana Clarkson, another veteran of the cheap and cheerful video market, and also Barbi Benton, one time arm-candy of Hugh Hefner. IN fact, there is moderate female nudity throughout this film, so it isn't a complete waste of time! There is constant - and hilariously bombastic music, much of which sounds as if it was lifted from other, far more expensive, films.This film passes 90 minutes amiably enough for an undemanding male audience.

BrickNash Firstly let's not beat around the bush! This is a low budget, and I mean LOW budget fantasy film. Right now if you accept that then this film is great fun. Especially for a bunch of guys to watch with a few beers. The film makes no apologies, it's just totally gratuatious with heads flying off all over the place and barely a scene goes by without a good solid flash of naked females. Rape scenes, free sex, mud wrestling, magic, swords, muscles, blood it's all in there.As a film it is nowhere near the quality of Conan The Barbarian, but it's one of these films you don't watch expecting to be moved to tears (Except by laughter!) Overall a fantastically bad fantasy epic that film snobs should avoid at all costs but everyone else should give a bash on those Saturday nights in with the mates.