I remember this being on TV once when I was a kid.
I never saw it all the way through but my dad managed to tape the last 25 minutes of this movie and I used to repeatedly watch this section over and over again when I was 10 or 11 - to me it was a kind of video nasty, a gory and sexy movie that kids of my age shouldn't be watching and I felt more grown up.
I had not scene the film at all since 1986-7 when the other week I saw the DVD on sale for £5.99 - I had to buy it.
I had such a pang of nostalgia rewatching the last 25 minutes again but when it came to watching the film all the way through, I was disappointed. The whole thing is very amauterishly done and the story seems thrown together and rushed. The acting is wooden at best. The build up to the final climactic 25 minutes was just nowhere near as good as the fondly remembered last section.
The soundtrack however is the best thing about this movie and should be released on CD in its own right - It is a lush amalgam of Korngold's Errol Flynn scores, Richard Strauss and Wagner. This surely can not be the same David Whitaker who composed video game music in the laste 80's and early 90's?!!
Overall, because of the disappointment I can only recommend this movie to nostalgia freaks like myself - It has little to offer a modern audience.
I never saw it all the way through but my dad managed to tape the last 25 minutes of this movie and I used to repeatedly watch this section over and over again when I was 10 or 11 - to me it was a kind of video nasty, a gory and sexy movie that kids of my age shouldn't be watching and I felt more grown up.
I had not scene the film at all since 1986-7 when the other week I saw the DVD on sale for £5.99 - I had to buy it.
I had such a pang of nostalgia rewatching the last 25 minutes again but when it came to watching the film all the way through, I was disappointed. The whole thing is very amauterishly done and the story seems thrown together and rushed. The acting is wooden at best. The build up to the final climactic 25 minutes was just nowhere near as good as the fondly remembered last section.
The soundtrack however is the best thing about this movie and should be released on CD in its own right - It is a lush amalgam of Korngold's Errol Flynn scores, Richard Strauss and Wagner. This surely can not be the same David Whitaker who composed video game music in the laste 80's and early 90's?!!
Overall, because of the disappointment I can only recommend this movie to nostalgia freaks like myself - It has little to offer a modern audience.