Sorceress (1982)
4/10
I rate this film as a guilty pleasure.
17 December 2023
Warning: Spoilers
This film is truly terrible. It came out the same year I graduated high school and when you compare it to many of the other sword and sorcery films that came out about the same time, it is easily one of the worst. The story is bad. The acting is bad. The special effects are bad. The fight choreography is bad. I was shocked to see that this was a Roger Corman film. He usually does better model work than this. The creatures in this film look like ugly toys! How two girls could be raised in a small hut alongside a sister of about the same age and not realize that they, too, are girls and not boys, can only mean that they are simpletons with the intellect of slugs. Supposedly given the gift of sorcery as infants by a semi-divine being, they blunder through the entire film falling for one deception after another and solving nearly every problem with their fighting prowess or lack thereof. Still, their run in with a satyr is amusing, as is their first confusing trip to a brothel as young men, and the exasperation of their Viking friend when he tries to find a way to explain the difference between men and women to them. There are many of these brief yet funny interludes scattered throughout the movie. If you are offended by nudity or there are children present, then skip this movie by all means. Bare skin abounds as does plenty of ribald humor. If these things don't bother you, or if you enjoy these things, and if everybody present is mature enough to watch the movie, and you have some time to kill. Then by all means, give it a try. You will probably have a few laughs, cringe a few times, and kill a brain cell or two.
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