Twin warrior sisters, raised in the wilderness and trained for battle, must survive a bizarre world of monsters, cultists, zombies, and barbarians as they prepare for a final showdown with the father who once tried to destroy them.
The Devil's Advocate, Pimeyden ruhtinaat, O symvoulos tou diavolou, Skoteines dynameis, La spada e la magia, Los bárbaros, Czarownica, The Barbarian Women, Mächte des Lichts, 소서리스, Den onde pagt, Die Mächte des Lichts, 魔女, 여자 마법사, Kouzelnice
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Sorceress is more on par with writer Jim Wynorski's directional efforts than with director Jack Hill's other movies. This sword and sorcery movie is a fairly sleazy affair (duh) despite it really not showing that much nudity. There is definitely a lot of sexual innuendo here.
Twin sisters/ Playboy Playmates Leigh and Lynette Harris are surprisingly decent (in a movie filled with terrible acting). The Pan-like goat creature made me cringe at times but I did like his introduction scene where our heroines are puzzled by the weapon hanging between his legs (how these women made it into adulthood without knowing the difference between men and women is beyond me.)
James Horner's score is extremely Wrath of Khan like.
Mindless fun.
Scorpion Releasing Blu-ray
A movie cobbled together from a mix of bad ideas, ripped off ideas, good ideas, and weird whims that had nothing to do with anything, including a flying lion god, a bleating satyr, twins who sense when the other twin is having sex, all made possible through a negative budget, awkward dubbing, and silly dialogue. It's a complete mess, thoroughly stupid, but not unenjoyable.
Cinematic Time Capsule
1982 Marathon - Film #126
”They possess the magic of some unknown god”
Roger Corman’s first foray into sword and sorcery is incredibly sleazy, stupid and awful…
... and it made me laugh harder than anything else I’ve seen all week.
BONUS POINTS for the wierdest attempt at a centaur I’ve ever seen.
”What kind of creature is that?”
All hail the Goat Boy!
Jack Hill is a fascinating character. He dipped his toes into everything and with every exploitation sub-genre he wrote or directed a movie in he made it his own. There was a 2 hour version of Sorceress that was very much his own but, for better or worse, we'll never see it.
Jack Hill hadn't worked for/with Roger Corman for a decade when he became attached to Sorceress in '82 (except for having some hand in writing The Bees in 1978 for which he went uncredited which I find pretty interesting given the circumstances of this movie...more on that later) and I'd love to know exactly how he came to be attached to it in the first place but short…
This movie is one of the prime examples of so-bad-it's-good entertainment. There are moments where the acting, or the effects, or the writing are absolutely cringe-inducing. But then there are moments where it's all just so gloriously and insanely over-the-top bugnuts in the funnest way, that there wasn't a single moment I wasn't entertained. There are so many moments in this that will have you wondering if you've gone insane because you won't believe anyone would make something this bonkers and do it in a way that almost seems professional. And why shouldn't it seem professional? I mean, this is a proper movie directed by Jack Hill and produced by Roger Corman. On the other…
The success of Dungeons and Dragons and Conan the Barbarian led to a wild flurry of sword & sorcery cheese that in the early eighties was nicely timed with the VCR explosion. When I got together with my elementary school BFF for weekend movie nights, I looked forward to these types of rentals the most. Guaranteed action & effects and a smorgasbord of scantily clad women. A fantasy or sci-fi genre flick usually topped off a night of role playing games or a round of Lode Runner on his Commodore VIC 20. We were in an exciting new world of home entertainment.
As I watched this for the weekly Crap Movie Collective, it didn't take long before certain images became familiar and…
"Sorceress" is a 1982 fantasy film directed by Jack Hill. Piggybacking off of the fandom of "Conan: The Barbarian" (1982), "Sorceress" is one amongst many in the "Swords & Sorcery" genre of films. Producer Roger Corman approached Hill with the plan to loosely work in Alexander Dumas' novel "The Corsican Brothers" but with twin girls as the gimmick to which got to work on drafting. Jim Wynorski did an abundance of writing as well, and when Hill finally disowned the final product, (thus having the director "Brian Stuart" with accreditation), Wynorski got full writing credit.
Ultimately the film is reserved in the genre of "so bad it's good" reservation of films. There is an absorbent amount of cheesy based nudity and…
If you're looking for the most disturbing cinematic depiction of a Goat-man, then this is your movie.
VHS HELL #22
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*all laughing hysterically while being kidnapped by apes*
Okay, I know this isn’t a good movie, but those scenes where the dead come to life in the catacombs and start walking out of the walls with spider webs clinging to them, that was atmosphere, Karen. This truly has some of the worst acting I’ve ever seen, some of the cheesiest costumes and special effects, and some of the cringiest dialogue, but it’s endearingly fun. The ending is truly magnificent, so if you’re like “what the fuck am I watching,” okay, you’re not wrong - but stick around until the last 15 minutes and you’ll thank me. And the giant hissing, floating head that makes lightsaber sounds…
This movie bites ass!
Being able to telepathically feel what your sister feels while she's getting fucked is one of the wildest things I've seen.
