They Swash! They Buckle! They get the girl and/or boy! They defeat the villain! A passable piece of mindless fluff. Imagine one of the poorer episodes of "Xena" with nudity and you're on the money. Not bad, if you're in the mood for this sort of thing, but if you are, you've seen all this stuff before.
6 Reviews
Late sword and sorcery trash
pumaye13 September 2004
Very poor late entry in the sword and sorcery genre, a late clone to the Conan clones of the early and mid-Eighties, with a couple of laughable twists (like the hero always shifting eye-patch... come on, guys, that could be fun with Igor in Young Frankenstein, but here is totally silly), several beautiful women (especially one of my favorite, Lisa Toothman, that here, alas, doesn't show the world her big assets, one of the wonder of the world, indeed), a really derivative plot, the worst swords-fights I have ever seen. This is so terrible that you have to see it before to put it in the back shelves of your heroic fantasy collection (and start searching for the much better Deathstalker series).
Eyes of the Serpent
BandSAboutMovies11 September 2023
Warning: Spoilers
We are in Tag-Mur, a mysterious world where Corva (Lenore Andriel) and her sister Neema (Lisa Toothman, Hard Rock Zombies) are battling for control which will come with the two magic swords they call the Eye of the Serpent. They also have daughters who are involved in the battle.
Corva's daughter Raven (Carlton Lynx) is destined to fight Neema's daughter Fiona (Diana Frank, Monster High) and the two swords of the kingdom, when joined, will end the conflict that their mother's father has created just because, well...because that's what he wanted when he died.
In order to create an army, Neema gets Galen (Tom Schultz) on her side. He's the kind of Han Solo-esque good guy who wears an eyepatch just because he likes how it looks.
There's a bad guy with an iron pig mask who keeps getting wounded and coming back, including one scene where Raven straps him down on a table and the way she softcore sexes him up makes it look like he's in the worst pain. I'm very immature and there's a good guy named Merkin. Every time they say his name, I laughed out loud.
IMDB claims that this is a sequel to Time Barbarians but I don't see a connection.
Eyes of the Serpent was directed by Ricardo Jacques Gale (Alien Intruder) and written by Stewart Chapin, Mark Seldis and Tracy Young. Nobody really did all that much after this. But this, well, this is like a made for TV sword and sorcery movie with way more nudity and BDSM than you expect.
Corva's daughter Raven (Carlton Lynx) is destined to fight Neema's daughter Fiona (Diana Frank, Monster High) and the two swords of the kingdom, when joined, will end the conflict that their mother's father has created just because, well...because that's what he wanted when he died.
In order to create an army, Neema gets Galen (Tom Schultz) on her side. He's the kind of Han Solo-esque good guy who wears an eyepatch just because he likes how it looks.
There's a bad guy with an iron pig mask who keeps getting wounded and coming back, including one scene where Raven straps him down on a table and the way she softcore sexes him up makes it look like he's in the worst pain. I'm very immature and there's a good guy named Merkin. Every time they say his name, I laughed out loud.
IMDB claims that this is a sequel to Time Barbarians but I don't see a connection.
Eyes of the Serpent was directed by Ricardo Jacques Gale (Alien Intruder) and written by Stewart Chapin, Mark Seldis and Tracy Young. Nobody really did all that much after this. But this, well, this is like a made for TV sword and sorcery movie with way more nudity and BDSM than you expect.
Bleaugh...
dob-26 December 2004
I'm a sucker for this kind of movie - low-budget Conan-knockoff sword and sandal movies. I enjoyed the Deathstalker series, except for the most painful moments, and this is very reminiscent of that, but of significantly lower quality (yeah, I know, that is hard to imagine).
The story is fine for this kind of thing - two princesses, each with a magic sword, battling to control a kingdom, with sidekicks, etc., and lone swordsman shows up to help.
Good bits: There are some semi-unexpected plot twists, although sometimes they're surprising more for the lack of any backstory to fill them in, and they often don't go anywhere. The guy playing the adviser to the queen, Seamus (inexplicably pronounced See-mus) at least tries to act. The swordfights, though semi-stilted, end with actual blood on the swords, which I always appreciate, since so many movies fail at that. The men are strong, the women nubile, the costumes OK. I liked the lady who could smell anything, too, and wished she'd actually done something in the movie. The two tortured guards were kinda funny, too. Some of the writing is passable/OK, though often it's lost in delivery or just in confusion. The oddly-apostrophed Ernst May'r does OK, too.
Bad bits: The dialogue. The acting. The direction. The cinematography. The DVD transfer. The S&M costumes. Lots of masks, so they can reuse the warrior guys even after they die. In fact, often they show three guys running the woods, and then six end up dying in the battle.
Unanswered questions: Why is the Fiona apparently only about five years younger than her mother, Neema? And why does she have a French accent, when nobody else does? Why'd they leave her in a trance guarded by three guys in a tent? On the other hand, since the population of this kingdom is about twelve, maybe three would be enough. Was horned-helmet creation all there was to the magic swords, after all?
Some of these are fun to watch, even if it's only to ridicule. This is probably a step below that for most folks.
The story is fine for this kind of thing - two princesses, each with a magic sword, battling to control a kingdom, with sidekicks, etc., and lone swordsman shows up to help.
Good bits: There are some semi-unexpected plot twists, although sometimes they're surprising more for the lack of any backstory to fill them in, and they often don't go anywhere. The guy playing the adviser to the queen, Seamus (inexplicably pronounced See-mus) at least tries to act. The swordfights, though semi-stilted, end with actual blood on the swords, which I always appreciate, since so many movies fail at that. The men are strong, the women nubile, the costumes OK. I liked the lady who could smell anything, too, and wished she'd actually done something in the movie. The two tortured guards were kinda funny, too. Some of the writing is passable/OK, though often it's lost in delivery or just in confusion. The oddly-apostrophed Ernst May'r does OK, too.
Bad bits: The dialogue. The acting. The direction. The cinematography. The DVD transfer. The S&M costumes. Lots of masks, so they can reuse the warrior guys even after they die. In fact, often they show three guys running the woods, and then six end up dying in the battle.
Unanswered questions: Why is the Fiona apparently only about five years younger than her mother, Neema? And why does she have a French accent, when nobody else does? Why'd they leave her in a trance guarded by three guys in a tent? On the other hand, since the population of this kingdom is about twelve, maybe three would be enough. Was horned-helmet creation all there was to the magic swords, after all?
Some of these are fun to watch, even if it's only to ridicule. This is probably a step below that for most folks.
Only for soft porn lovers
sauravjoshi8522 March 2020
Eyes of the serpent is an action fantasy movie directed by Ricardo Jacques Gale and stars Tom Schultz, Diana Frank, Carlton Elizabeth, Lenore Andriel, Chuch Mavich and David Michael Sterling in the leads.
The movie depicts the story of two sisters who fight to take control of two magic swords.
The movie is not more than a trash with pathetic acting and very weak screenplay. The plot is ok but the execution is very bad. The movie is average in some scenes.
You can watch the movie if you are a fan of soft porn.
The movie depicts the story of two sisters who fight to take control of two magic swords.
The movie is not more than a trash with pathetic acting and very weak screenplay. The plot is ok but the execution is very bad. The movie is average in some scenes.
You can watch the movie if you are a fan of soft porn.
Average
filmo705 May 2018
This is just a lower budget Deathstalker type movie from 1993. I rented every movie of this type back then. It is ok if one understands that it is a B grade sword & sorcery movie, kind of unintentionally funny at times. I'm happy enough to have the VHS tape
I should also add that this was originally released on VHS in two versions. There was an R rated cut and an Unrated cut. The Unrated version has about one minute more footage of Elizabeth Carlton's sex scene. The DVD put out by Simitar in 1997 was the R rated cut.
I should also add that this was originally released on VHS in two versions. There was an R rated cut and an Unrated cut. The Unrated version has about one minute more footage of Elizabeth Carlton's sex scene. The DVD put out by Simitar in 1997 was the R rated cut.
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