Conquest (1983)

He is a hunter from a future world trapped in prehistoric times.

Conquest

This is Lucio Fulci's hazy, never ending, sword and sorcery piece of shit.  If there's one thing the Italian directors of the '70s and '80s were good at it was copying successful American films to make a buck.  This is Fulci's surreal imitation of films like Conan and The Beastmaster, and it is terrible.  I know this is a work by one of the great Italian exploitation directors so I'm supposed to say how misunderstood this film is and how the use of fog and color evokes a dreamlike quality and that the limited and stilted dialogue conveys the coarse, primitive nature of the characters, etc.  But no, this film is just a pile of festering poo.  After the first twenty minutes I just wanted the damn thing to end.  But it didn't end.  It went on forever like some sort of incoherent, low-budget hell.

An archer with a glowing blue bow and a guy with fur covered nunchuks battle a sorceress who is naked all the time but wears a golden mask.  That's the plot.

The one redeeming feature that I can think of is the gore.  This movie obviously isn't just a fantasy epic, it also contains more than a little psychedelia and Fulci's trademark gore.  There are decapitations, and exposed brains, and blood spattered bodies and best of all, a girl gets ripped in half by some furries.   But still, I cannot with a good conscience recommend this film.  Hell, the film was so blurry that most of the time I didn't know what was going on.  I had to assume that when the blurs were moving faster it was an action sequence.

Maybe somebody can explain why this is a masterpiece.

Violence Rating: 3.5 out of 5
Booby Rating: 2.5 out of 5

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