Scott LeBrun Sleazy sword-and-sorcery fantasy as only Roger Corman can produce it, "Sorceress" is good fun provided that you're not too demanding. It delivers a generous amount of amusement and fun, especially when it comes to the ridiculous dialogue, and its delivery. For the most part, it doesn't do that much to stand out from the pack of other, similar films during this time. But that all changes when it gets to the climax, a full-on assault of cheese and spectacle, complete with light shows and otherworldly creatures.A large part of the charm, of course, lies in the casting of luscious twin sisters Leigh and Lynette Harris, playing warrior women Mira and Mara. It seems that one of them needs to be sacrificed by power-hungry villain Traigon (snarling and hammy Roberto Ballesteros). They take the fight to him, aided by such characters as the hunky young Erlick (Roberto Nelson) and the proud Valdar (Bruno Rey), a guy who wouldn't look out of place in a Lord of the Rings feature.That's really all you need to know, so you can discover the silly pleasures of this lowbrow feature for yourself. John Carl Buechler handles the creature duties, creating a likable "goat man" sort of character as well as a variety of ape-like beasts. The music is liberally borrowed from the earlier New World productions "Battle Beyond the Stars" and "Humanoids from the Deep". The action scenes are basically decent. The Harris sisters aren't exactly very good actresses, but this viewer can't imagine many fans of this type of thing caring all that much.The sad postscript is that this turned out to be the final directorial credit for exploitation master Jack Hill ("The Big Doll House", "Coffy", etc.), who had a falling out with Corman over the matter of the editing. In the end, Hill retained a producing credit under his name but the direction was credited to a pseudonymous "Brian Stuart" (the names of Cormans' sons).If you like fantasy features to be on the cheesy, sleazy, low budget side, watching this will be a no-brainer.Seven out of 10.

Perry Mercer (Blackace) Let's see..this movie came out in 1982 so I was...17yrs at the time. Now..my cousin, who was only 12 at the time, had saw The Sword and the Sorcerer with me just a few months earlier and we were looking forward to the sequel to that movie. Unfortunately Lee Horsley decided to do Matt Houston instead. Anyway..we were looking for another Fantasy Adventure movie that was similar. After seeing the trailer of Sorcerer and watching those HOT twins Mira & Mara snatching some arrows out of the air, we just had to see this film. That turned out to be the biggest mistake of our lives. Not only was ALL the action sequences shown in the trailer, but the whole movie was just over 70 mins. long. People who have reviewed this movie on IMDb didn't mention that. The plot was just stupid and the special effects were the cheesiest I've even seen. The final battle with the Griffon and Huge Head was silly and dumb. I was so angry when I left the theater and my cousin was like, "That's it? That movie was terrible." Hopefully you will not be able to find a copy of this video on VHS. It's not even worth 5 cents to see. The people who created this film should be force to watch it for 36 hours straight as a lesson to not release HORRID movies to the public. Stay far away from this stinker. Rent a copy of "The Sword & the Sorcerer" on DVD instead. A much better film with decent action and an understandable plot.

Grinder79 Fans of the sword and sorcery genre might want to take a look at this laughably inept masterpiece about a pair of buxom twins fighting their evil father. This film has it all: bad acting, terrible dialogue, awful special effects, and of course, gratuitous nudity. As another reviewer mentioned, the dialogue appears to have been dubbed, even though the actors were clearly speaking English to begin with. This just serves to make the film even more amusing. Equally amusing is how initially nobody can tell that the twins are really girls, even though this should have been obvious to anybody with at least one eye. All in all, a fun film for fans of the genre. I give it a 7 out of 10.

EL BUNCHO In the fall of 1982 (which is the correct release date) I went with a friend to see this film simply because the poster looked so cheesy. For some odd reason this was the second half of a double bill with WITHOUT A TRACE, a serious film about child kidnapping! Including my friend and I there were about eight people in the theater when SORCERESS began to roll, and I dare say that the eight of us got at least $100 worth of laughs for our $3.50. This is one of the most inept films from the short-lived barbarian flick cycle, and that's really saying something! It appears that they lost the dialogue track and had to re-dub, giving the movie the look of a foreign film. I won't go into the plot since the previous review really nails it, but you simply haven't lived until you see the "epic" battle between gods Calgara (a giant Mexican woman's head with oatmeal on half of her face) and Vitaan (a seriously fake foam-rubber winged lion/man.goat?). As bad as this is, it is never boring, and is so crazily entertaining that I honestly rate it among my ten all-time favorite movies. VIVA SORCERESS!!!