Miles
O'Keefe stars in this Conan rip-off from Joe D'Amato. It is curiously lacking the exploitation
goodness you’d expect from that Italian sleaze merchant. Instead, what we get is long stretches of
extreme boredom punctuated with moments of side-splitting hilarity.
O’Keefe
stars as Ator, who must rescue his wife (Ritza Brown) from the clutches of the
evil Spider King (Dakkar). An Amazon
warrior (Sabrina Siani) in search of gold and adventure, joins him on his
quest. In the end, Ator squares off
against the king and does battle with his giant spider.
For
a while there, I thought this was going to be worse than its more famous
sequel, Cave Dwellers. I mean nothing
happens for about the first twenty minutes. (Heck, the first five minutes is filled with
old guys spouting prophecy after prophecy.)
The plot moves along at a sluggish pace, but some of the side journeys
Ator takes are amusing. I liked the part
where the Amazon women held wrestling matches and the winner got to use Ator as
breeding stock, and the scene where Laura Gemser tries slip Ator a Mickey is
right out of a Hercules movie from the ‘60s.
Dakkar
makes for an OK villain, if only because of his willingness to let spiders crawl
all over his bare arms and bald head. The
giant spider is probably the most memorable part, and for all the wrong
reasons. The budget was so low that they
could only afford to show four of its legs at a time. The editing during Ator’s final showdown with
it is downright hilarious too.
AKA: Ator.
AKA: Ator the Invincible.
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