Fire and Ice, from Ralph Bakshi in 1983, is at least competitive, though the hero and heroine often get captured separately... and sometimes get rescued by Barbarian Batman, aka 'Darkwolf.' Also notable for Frank Frazetta having significantly worked on it, so the visuals are awesome. Not sure if Dark Corners ever reviewed it.
This is perhaps one of the best BAD movies I have ever seen. I own it on a Blu-Ray disk and watch it at least once a year. I sell it as one of the batshit crazy movies you will ever see. The filmmakers didn't say NO to any crazy idea. I like to see the ideas that didn't make the cut. lol
I suspect they rummaged through the prop/costume room and whatever they found, write it into the script. Kitchen sink? Make it glow green and explode! Instead of the minefield, they should have had a mimefield.
The scientist at 6:07 is wearing what looks like a plastic 70's era Texas Rangers batting helmet like the one I got as a kid. Wouldn't have expected that kind of a product placement.
Two minutes in: "What? You have a discount Frankenstein in a Box whose head explodes when you bite it on the neck, and you're gonna let that go?" Eight minutes later: "OK, I see your point, stop to analyze every crazy element, and we'd be here all day."
Goddamn, when you called it a post-apocalyptic take on the novel, I knew it would have little to do with the original story... but I didn't realise just HOW little. This looks absolutely astounding.
Certainly-It was an Adventure Story about Explorers who visited a faraway land and discovered a Hidden Civilization that Worshiped an Immortal Unageing Goddess named Ayesha. It's been Adapted several times before. The most faithful version was probably the one with Ursula Andress in the 60's.
It's an S&M film. IT has to be. I have to say that the scene on the bridge was absolutely hysterical, right out of Monty Python. If only the rest of the film was like that.
My God. I've seen a lot of bad movies but this one actually left me with my mouth agape from sheer weirdness. Thank you for bringing this up. I seriously recommend watching it because there is just so much batshit stuff in there.
Maybe it was just a very large studio, and what they did was wait until each crew was on break so they could nip into each set and film something random with whatever they found...
Question: What's the fastest way to get to Nork Valley? Answer: Motorboat. Wow! This is a bit of a whiplash after "Chimes at Midnight" in the previous video.
Not gonna lie, i had to look up what “norks” were, it’s not a term i ever encountered around my way… but now Robin’s jokes here make a lot more sense 😆
I never ran into it either, and it is extra hilarious for me because Games Workshop (a UK-based company, the folks who make the Warhammer miniatures games) have had a character named Nork Deddog in their product range for decades.
It's amazing, all right - amazingly bad! The plot doesn't seem to have any forward momentum, so it's just a lot of incidents- including the worst incident of all, the main characters facing a fifth-rate Robin Williams knockoff.
That harpoon to the leg abduction is hilarious. The horrific wound that would cause in an environment clearly free of modern medicine would likely kill or cripple her. She was unarmed and just standing there. Grab her you knobs.
This was made about the time that the Cannon Group made a few Allan Quatermain movies (with Richard Chamberlain), H. Rider Haggard's character, to cash in on the success of "Raiders of the Lost Ark." I wonder if they ever thought of doing a "She" remake, along with everybody else.
That multiplying guy who exploded when thrown off the bridge? _*chef's kiss_ Just when you think you're getting ahead of this movie, you think y'know where it's gonna go, it does _that._ INCREDIBLE 😄
Oh my goodness, that self-replicating sailor has been in the back of my mind since childhood and a late night cable viewing of this schlock-fest. But until now I didn’t know the title! Thank you, thank you, thank you. The questions is answered. The movie really is as bad as I vaguely remember it being.
Record number of captures: Jon Don Baker's Final Justice. As seen in the last season of original mystery science theatre 3000. Where he plays a corpulent Texas Ranger chasing a mafia man on Malta. The plot has him create havoc trying to capture the man. Get captured and locked up by the local police. Then do the same with the same result, and shot of him in a cell, all over again. Not sure how many times it loops off the top of my head, but it feels like at least six or seven.
And of course the villain keeps him alive to toy with him, and his boss played by Rossano Brazzi keeps going along with the idea, which ends up getting him killed.
@@bearthegenxgm I read that as "a film Conan wishes he produced" (my mind was probably on Sandahl Bergman, not sure why...) and I was like, yep, this is how I imagine Conan's drinking stories went.
This is prolly my favorite "bad" movie. I don't think it's like all the others because the acting is actually decent and all the scenes are fun. It has it's own style and I think the soundtrack is well above average for this type of movie as well.
I’m surprised that I’ve seen this film. I recall only one thing that made me recognize it: the BS with the bridge guy. I immediately remembered the duplicates,the annoyance, and throwing them off the bridge to explode. Absolutely nothing else stuck in my head.
I saw this movie decades ago and it still haunts me. I wrapped it in aluminum foil, nailed it into a wooden box, chained it shut and buried it in the woods four feet deep.
I would hope that they would have enlisted Bridge-Robin-Williams to fight the Nork's. He seemed like a perfect one man army. Or, at least, a Neverending distraction fodder.
I LOVE this movie. One of the best b-movies ever. You just can’t predict what’s going to happen next, every scene looks simultaneously cheap and uniquely bizarre, and the soundtrack KICKS ASS. 10/10
Where can we buy this treasure of the 7th art? Designwise this is Castellari Escape From The Bronx as Done By Danilo Donati with input from early Terry Gilliam. absolutely brilliant.
@@DarkCornersReviews You do review of bad movies so well (applause), but of course there is a dedicated fanbase for bad movies.The ones i don't like are Hollywood A list BORING movies. Specially bet picture ones....Kramer vs. etc. Now there's this real bad (imho) A list (back then) we can do better than Hitchcock homage called Still of the Night.......(bad Hitchcock wannabes are a genre all in itself What Lies Beneath / Final analysis and Still of the NIght) Some people get it at least halfway right (Last embrace)or do it their own way (De Palma and Verhoeven). Any chance on Still of the Night - a movie i really loathe but not for lack of money or talent - just pretensions).
Now to be fair, Hari is Tom's sister, his mother would probably kill him if she got hurt. But seriously it make me think a bit of The Warriors with the all the themed gangs. A concept which by the way has it's own bad movie in Bronx Warriors. She is oddly fun in a way although it does seem a bit of a waste of Justin' Hayward's beautiful Eternal Woman.
Another great review; this movie is certainly out there. There is another one I don't believe you have reviewed that's in the same rough ballpark as this "Prisoners of the Lost Universe" it has it's share of weird characters, ultra cheap special effects but imo no extended lulls always at least worth watching maybe you'll consider it?
Thanks for your review. I have watched this movie twice & although it makes very little sense (watch another movie for a storyline that does) it’s a lot of fun.
I’m just wondering why they took one idea from the H. Rider Haggard novel and inserted it into this hodgepodge. Was the novel still popular enough that the title lured people to the cinemas, only to be disappointed?
I Bought this off of ram off Amazon and is probably one of the strangest movies I think I’ve seen in a long time I’d have to agree with everything you said in your revd
Good video...but....worst. charleton heston. Impersonation. EVER. Lol, love you robin. I'm a patreon supporter and urge all viewers to consider doing the same!
Does anyone know the name of the actor who played the Most Annoying Man Alive? I'm just wondering if he was a friend of somebody important to the production or if he was "discovered" while performing a comedy tour in a really bad hotel chain. Excruciating!
A post-apocalyptic movie that's more Hope, Crosby and Lamour Road movie than She, that's... something. It's not a bad idea but it doesn't work if everyone has the charisma of Crosby.
Does it regularly? She didn't think they'd pop out of the boxes this time? I have to admit I thought Jamie was kidding about "Gladiator in a Box" thing.
I think seven captures has to be a record, unless you count those serialized things that were made into movies, like Radar Men of the Moon or Astro Zombies. They got captured once or twice per episode, and when you stitch together 10 episodes...well, you do the math.
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Looks like 'She' is being played by Sandahl Bergman, who was Valeria in Conan and Queen Gedren in Red Sonja, my favourite 'bad' movie of all time.
Also in Hell Comes to Frogtown!!! And she’s got a hell of a bod 🔥🔥🔥🔥!
Just a shame she didn't have more of a career!
She is really a supremely good dancer and you can see her dance in all that jazz
Love Sandahl Bergman. I must check out this insanity.
The woman with the earrings electronically connected to Rowdy Roddy Pipers crotch! \🐸/
Fire and Ice, from Ralph Bakshi in 1983, is at least competitive, though the hero and heroine often get captured separately... and sometimes get rescued by Barbarian Batman, aka 'Darkwolf.' Also notable for Frank Frazetta having significantly worked on it, so the visuals are awesome. Not sure if Dark Corners ever reviewed it.
^I love that Movie.
Humanity turning this crazy only 23 years after the apocalypse… That’s probably the most realistic thing in this movie lol
Yes, I think recent history confirms the plausibility.
Looks like a documentary of post brexit Britain tbf.
I would not have believed it until COVID. Now I know you speak the truth.
Gotta agree
I just saw the "cannibal" episode of "The Last of Us." You speak nothing but truths...
"The guy at the front's doing ALL the acting" 🤣.
This is perhaps one of the best BAD movies I have ever seen. I own it on a Blu-Ray disk and watch it at least once a year. I sell it as one of the batshit crazy movies you will ever see. The filmmakers didn't say NO to any crazy idea. I like to see the ideas that didn't make the cut. lol
Norks vs Pirates? That would be a good spinoff title if nothing else.
I suspect they rummaged through the prop/costume room and whatever they found, write it into the script. Kitchen sink? Make it glow green and explode!
Instead of the minefield, they should have had a mimefield.
@@fredblonder7850 Aren't Mimes outlawed?
@@cord113 No, but they should be.
Dude! That scene with them hanging up in plastic stuff has been in my memory since I was a kid, and I had no idea where it was from! Thanks!
that was by far the best Charlton Heston imitation i have ever seen!
Thanks. Have you seen many?
Phil Hartman will always be the best.
@@a.champagne6238 YES!!
The scientist at 6:07 is wearing what looks like a plastic 70's era Texas Rangers batting helmet like the one I got as a kid. Wouldn't have expected that kind of a product placement.
Two minutes in: "What? You have a discount Frankenstein in a Box whose head explodes when you bite it on the neck, and you're gonna let that go?"
Eight minutes later: "OK, I see your point, stop to analyze every crazy element, and we'd be here all day."
Goddamn, when you called it a post-apocalyptic take on the novel, I knew it would have little to do with the original story... but I didn't realise just HOW little. This looks absolutely astounding.
This was made by people that didn't even read the Cliff Notes Version of H. Rider Haggard's SHE.
@@billylo7875 This is a novel?
Certainly-It was an Adventure Story about Explorers who visited a faraway land and discovered a Hidden Civilization that Worshiped an Immortal Unageing Goddess named Ayesha. It's been Adapted several times before. The most faithful version was probably the one with Ursula Andress in the 60's.
@@billylo7875 That sounds awesome! I'm gonna have to check that out, thank you!
Some of these sets were used in Ator the Blade Master AKA Cave Dwellers
We need more movies of this calibre.
Just saw the trailer for Dungeons&Dragons, not as good as She but similar calibre!
The Hedonismbot reference was priceless.
Oh, I love the harlequin-patterned cloth of the outfit of the 2nd guy who jumps out @1:09!
It's an S&M film. IT has to be.
I have to say that the scene on the bridge was absolutely hysterical, right out of Monty Python. If only the rest of the film was like that.
I must have watched this movie at some point in my life because I remember the annoying man (men?) on the bridge
THAT'S IT! My friend once showed me the bridge clip with the multiplying Quote-Man, and I never knew what movie it was!
My God. I've seen a lot of bad movies but this one actually left me with my mouth agape from sheer weirdness. Thank you for bringing this up. I seriously recommend watching it because there is just so much batshit stuff in there.
Maybe it was just a very large studio, and what they did was wait until each crew was on break so they could nip into each set and film something random with whatever they found...
That's Sandhal Bergman, isn't it? It sounds like her voice was dubbed over by Katey Sagal... WTF?
"She" is "Mad Max" if it was set in the same timeline as "Zardoz".
That just seems so astute to me. All 3 have something worth watching to them.
As my late friend, John Sternaman used to say, “good movies are a dime a dozen, but some thing that is truly awful? That’s priceless.”
"They are rescued by the Texas Chainsaw Mummies."
At this point, I would believe that was their actual name in the film.
I once paid to rent this based on the association to Haggard’s books. I was led astray.
Question: What's the fastest way to get to Nork Valley?
Answer: Motorboat.
Wow! This is a bit of a whiplash after "Chimes at Midnight" in the previous video.
This may be why we struggle to find our audience.
@@robinbailes5236 😆
We are the shuffling Knights who say "Niiii!"
Still better explanation than "somehow Palpatine has returned"
🤣🤣🤣
4:20 that play witj the words is brilliant! 🤣
My favorite bad movie, it’s a stunning next-level demented fever dream. And who can forget the sublime awesomeness of XENON!!!
Not gonna lie, i had to look up what “norks” were, it’s not a term i ever encountered around my way… but now Robin’s jokes here make a lot more sense 😆
I never ran into it either, and it is extra hilarious for me because Games Workshop (a UK-based company, the folks who make the Warhammer miniatures games) have had a character named Nork Deddog in their product range for decades.
I only knew it as an army slur against North Koreans, and I had no idea what else it might mean. Boy was I surprised.
I think Battlefield Earth may tie this movie for sheer amount of captures. If you count failed escape attempts as "captures" too
I just can't accept this movie as being bad. It looks fkn amazing! ⚔
And I just screened it. Free on TH-cam. And it actually is fkn amazing!🤘😭
It's amazing, all right - amazingly bad! The plot doesn't seem to have any forward momentum, so it's just a lot of incidents- including the worst incident of all, the main characters facing a fifth-rate Robin Williams knockoff.
0:54 Wait - they arrived in Heaven's Gate?
This film is SHE(t).....
Well done covering this one with such humor. Glad you are making this fun
That harpoon to the leg abduction is hilarious. The horrific wound that would cause in an environment clearly free of modern medicine would likely kill or cripple her. She was unarmed and just standing there. Grab her you knobs.
This really makes me miss the nonsense of the 80's. Plus, today I learned what "nork" means. Dark Corners can be so educational sometimes. Great work!
This was made about the time that the Cannon Group made a few Allan Quatermain movies (with Richard Chamberlain), H. Rider Haggard's character, to cash in on the success of "Raiders of the Lost Ark." I wonder if they ever thought of doing a "She" remake, along with everybody else.
That multiplying guy who exploded when thrown off the bridge? _*chef's kiss_
Just when you think you're getting ahead of this movie, you think y'know where it's gonna go, it does _that._ INCREDIBLE 😄
Remarkable that he knew the Entire Theme Song from Green Acres.
Oh my goodness, that self-replicating sailor has been in the back of my mind since childhood and a late night cable viewing of this schlock-fest. But until now I didn’t know the title! Thank you, thank you, thank you. The questions is answered. The movie really is as bad as I vaguely remember it being.
Gladiators in a box... Man, it's fascinating the things you can buy in Amazon.
I'm from Western Canada, and I'll admit I had to google "slang norks" as from your commentary it clearly had a meaning.. lol. NOW I get it!
Record number of captures: Jon Don Baker's Final Justice. As seen in the last season of original mystery science theatre 3000. Where he plays a corpulent Texas Ranger chasing a mafia man on Malta. The plot has him create havoc trying to capture the man. Get captured and locked up by the local police. Then do the same with the same result, and shot of him in a cell, all over again. Not sure how many times it loops off the top of my head, but it feels like at least six or seven.
And of course the villain keeps him alive to toy with him, and his boss played by Rossano Brazzi keeps going along with the idea, which ends up getting him killed.
LOL. After that Heston homage, Robin, I want to suggest a couple of things: 1) de 2) caf. But brilliant as always. Cheers!
I love this movie! It would also make the BEST D&D adventure ever! :) Oh and they weren't vampires, they were werewolves. ;)
Werewolves with vampire fangs. I love that they are the standard cheap fangs you get at Halloween just painted up.
@@wintermute- Exactly! This is a film Corman WISHES he produced! ;)
@@bearthegenxgm I read that as "a film Conan wishes he produced" (my mind was probably on Sandahl Bergman, not sure why...) and I was like, yep, this is how I imagine Conan's drinking stories went.
Was this intended to be some kind of Post/Apoc Rendition of 'The Odyssey'??? Because conceptually... that not a 1/2 bad idea!
1:15 ~ _"I used to be an adventurer like you, then I took an arrow to the knee."_ 😆
This is prolly my favorite "bad" movie. I don't think it's like all the others because the acting is actually decent and all the scenes are fun. It has it's own style and I think the soundtrack is well above average for this type of movie as well.
But did those shuffling knights say "ni"?
This seems amazing in the worst way! Thanks Robin and Graham!
3:27 Death by snuu snuu?
I’m surprised that I’ve seen this film. I recall only one thing that made me recognize it: the BS with the bridge guy. I immediately remembered the duplicates,the annoyance, and throwing them off the bridge to explode. Absolutely nothing else stuck in my head.
Ahhh....SHE!!! This movie was one of the staples of my video watching in the 80's!
A post-apocalyptic art film. I dig it, and frankly feel that we need more of films like this!
Yup, nonsensical plots with plenty of Norks. :)
Why bother? Just turn on the news! Have you been seeing what's happening in Atlanta?
It looks like it was written by someone who has seen Monty Python, but they failed at the execution.
This entire movie is a Mad Lib
Sigh... Don't they realize that warriors lose most of their value when you remove them from their boxes?
I saw this movie decades ago and it still haunts me. I wrapped it in aluminum foil, nailed it into a wooden box, chained it shut and buried it in the woods four feet deep.
I would hope that they would have enlisted Bridge-Robin-Williams to fight the Nork's. He seemed like a perfect one man army.
Or, at least, a Neverending distraction fodder.
Big Sandalh Bergman fan.
Loved her in Conan the Barbarian.
This was a Starring Role for her.
Gordon Mitchell (GIANT OF METROPOLIS). plays the leader of the bad guys, in case you missed him.
the 1:16 red spider & the 4:59 - 5:17 red crab are what make this movie worth watching
I LOVE this movie. One of the best b-movies ever. You just can’t predict what’s going to happen next, every scene looks simultaneously cheap and uniquely bizarre, and the soundtrack KICKS ASS. 10/10
Are you going to review two other versions of "She" on film? By which I mean the one from 1935 and the one from 1965?
The 1965 version is coming up on Friday. If that proves popular, we may well hit the sequel and the they 1935 version too
@@DarkCornersReviews wonderful - thank you so much!
You should check out "World Gone Wild". It's a post-apocalyptic film that's rescued from utter uselessness by Bruce Dern.
This movie is BRILLIANT!! I watch it every......once in a while.
This is like someone's Dungeons & Dragons campaign.
So is this a remake of the Ursula anderess 60s original film version.
Not to be confused with
the 60s version with Ursula Andress.
That version had something like
an actual plot line.
Our review of that coming later this week.
There was also an earlier version of SHE in the 1930's.
Where can we buy this treasure of the 7th art? Designwise this is Castellari Escape From The Bronx as Done By Danilo Donati with input from early Terry Gilliam. absolutely brilliant.
We always include a link in the description.... but seriously save your money and just watch some paint dry.
@@DarkCornersReviews You do review of bad movies so well (applause), but of course there is a dedicated fanbase for bad movies.The ones i don't like are Hollywood A list BORING movies. Specially bet picture ones....Kramer vs. etc.
Now there's this real bad (imho) A list (back then) we can do better than Hitchcock homage called Still of the Night.......(bad Hitchcock wannabes are a genre all in itself What Lies Beneath / Final analysis and Still of the NIght)
Some people get it at least halfway right (Last embrace)or do it their own way (De Palma and Verhoeven).
Any chance on Still of the Night - a movie i really loathe but not for lack of money or talent - just pretensions).
I stumbled on this one late night, and loved it. This is so much better and more fun than most other post apocalypse B movies.
Now to be fair, Hari is Tom's sister, his mother would probably kill him if she got hurt. But seriously it make me think a bit of The Warriors with the all the themed gangs. A concept which by the way has it's own bad movie in Bronx Warriors. She is oddly fun in a way although it does seem a bit of a waste of Justin' Hayward's beautiful Eternal Woman.
Loved that movie. Sandahl Bergman and Quinn Kessler? Yay!
Didn't they try that bridge trap in the new Rings o Powah show with Queen Guardrail and the cheeto vulcano? ...figures if they did
This may be crazier than Zardoz.
Another great review; this movie is certainly out there. There is another one I don't believe you have reviewed that's in the same rough ballpark as this "Prisoners of the Lost Universe" it has it's share of weird characters, ultra cheap special effects but imo no extended lulls always at least worth watching maybe you'll consider it?
Thanks for your review. I have watched this movie twice & although it makes very little sense (watch another movie for a storyline that does) it’s a lot of fun.
Not a movie, but I'm pretty sure Princess Elise gets captured about as frequently in Sonic 2006.
I’m just wondering why they took one idea from the H. Rider Haggard novel and inserted it into this hodgepodge. Was the novel still popular enough that the title lured people to the cinemas, only to be disappointed?
Just keep making more of that guy and bring them to the Norks. Should be good for a laugh.
Thought crossed my mind
I'd rather have the norks
I bet he's a robin Williams fan
I Bought this off of ram off Amazon and is probably one of the strangest movies I think I’ve seen in a long time I’d have to agree with everything you said in your revd
This reminds me so much of the TTRPG Gammaworld. It feels like a campaign of that game being played out.
Good video...but....worst. charleton heston. Impersonation. EVER. Lol, love you robin. I'm a patreon supporter and urge all viewers to consider doing the same!
Does anyone know the name of the actor who played the Most Annoying Man Alive? I'm just wondering if he was a friend of somebody important to the production or if he was "discovered" while performing a comedy tour in a really bad hotel chain. Excruciating!
Why cant more movies be like this
A monty python film I haven't seen 👍
Ah, when late night on Showtime Friday nights would show these movies all the time. I miss those days.
I loved this film when it came out and still do it's not meat to be good it's meant to be fun
This movie looks nuts...
Taken as a series, James Bond gets captured more than anyone.
Sorry, No.
Doctor Who holds the Record for being Captured the Most Times.
Quite so, at least on television.
Is that the bridge to Schmigadoon?
A post-apocalyptic movie that's more Hope, Crosby and Lamour Road movie than She, that's... something.
It's not a bad idea but it doesn't work if everyone has the charisma of Crosby.
The main horse in Dreamworks animated Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron, I swear gets captured a gazillion times in that movie.
Sandhal Bergman!!!!! Thanks for watching this film for me.
This could be a potential Midnight Movie with audience participation.
Captured seven times, is this "Groundhog Day II"!!!🙏👻❣️
Does it regularly? She didn't think they'd pop out of the boxes this time? I have to admit I thought Jamie was kidding about "Gladiator in a Box" thing.
I first saw this on Monstervision with Joe Bob Briggs in the 90s
I think seven captures has to be a record, unless you count those serialized things that were made into movies, like Radar Men of the Moon or Astro Zombies. They got captured once or twice per episode, and when you stitch together 10 episodes...well, you do the math.
Nice Planet of the Apes reference
From which films do the clips in your intro sequence come?
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@@DarkCornersReviews Ta!
I've seen most of your reviews. This looks like the most insane movie you've ever reviewed, and that's a high bar. Impressive