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Infamousta brilliant actors, brilliant editing

Scotty Burke It is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review

danielemerson "Stalker... is that your sword, or are you just happy to see me?"Or "The top half of you definitely knows it's the wrong time, but the bottom half definitely knows it's the right place!"This, as the second movie in the series, is also the mid-point in tone between the first one (bone-headed and rapey) and the third one (more family humour, much less exposed flesh).Clearly, everyone involved was having a laugh riot at the expense of established sword'n'sorcery tropes. John Terlesky does everything short of winking directly at the camera. Actually, he may even do that at one point. In short, no cliché is too ripe to send up here - witness the wrestling match or the bar brawl in particular.Our black-clad villain, John Lazar, exercises his 'evil laugh' on a regular basis and his hench-witch does the bitchy vamp act wonderfully. There is (of course!) footage recycled from other Wynorsky movies, including 'Deathstalker I'. Very economical.And then there's Monique Gabrielle, playing both the wronged princess and her evil clone. Despite not being a great actor, she charges headlong into both roles with endearingly wide-eyed gusto.If you want subtlety, look elsewhere. If you want a modern-style fantasy flick, with existentially-tortured heroes, huskily meaningful dialogue about What It All Means or the ubiquitous and much over-rated 'darkness', you have really come to the wrong place. This is nothing more or less than lots of trashy fun. Then there's the out-takes over the credits, just to finish off with a few more chuckles.

Vomitron_G Nevermind my low rating. This is a really good movie.While the first DEATHSTALKER movie played it with a straight face (making it a much easier movie to poke fun at), this second installment in the series is tongue-in-cheek all the way. It did make me laugh as hard (or perhaps even harder at times) as with the first one, though maybe the enjoyment I got out of DEATHSTALKER II might be a bit less, how shall I put it... satisfying? Because after all, we're supposed to laugh with this one, and when it comes to the humor, it is as dumb as it gets. But still, nothing too wrong with that, I suppose. And to make things crystal clear from the get-go, the fun already starts in a most verbal way, just before the opening credits, when evil sword-wench Sultana shouts "I will have my revenge! And Deathstalker too!", and then whoosh, the "Deathstalker two" title-logo comes on. Brilliant.Part of the fun still comes from unintentional events, like scenes starting and ending abruptly, a chase-scene on horses were people just seem to be riding the same part of the road endlessly, stock footage from the first DEATHSTALKER (with a different look, easy to spot) inserted in this sequel for pointless reasons, etc. Another reason for incomprehensible chuckles comes from the movie's subtitle. It reads DUAL OF THE TITANS, supported by crackling flames... What titans? Who? Where are they? And like if the opening-credits weren't enough to make us reflect on this movie in a grinning or dumbly drooling fashion, then wait until the end-credits start to roll. They show us a handful of bloopers, at times even supported by silly voice-overs. Those bloopers are likely to kill off any braincells one might still have after viewing DEATHSTALKER II: DUAL OF THE TITANS! (Which titans?)The performances of the whole cast, this time, are indeed deliberately campy. Most actors handle a contemporary language completely unsuitable for a swords & sorcery film. Especially our hero (John Terlesky) seems to be exquisitely enjoying himself doing so. Blond Barbie-doll Monique Gabrielle (in a double-role, no less) was as painful as she was funny, watching her deliver her lines trying very hard to strike the right comical note (or vicious note, for that matter) when called for. And has John Lazar (of Russ Meyer's BEYOND THE VALLEY OF THE DOLLS fame) ever acted so laughably idiotic before in his life? Fitting for these slapstick characters, is the fact that they all seem to run around on sets made out of cardboard or styrofoam. In other words: real works of art.Of course, DEATHSTALKER II offers enough female eye-candy. Knockers and buttocks are displayed quite randomly in this one (thank you, Jim Wynorski). Sometimes they use stock footage from the first movie for this purpose, but thankfully there's new boobage to behold too. Especially the sex-scene between Deathstalker and evil princess Evie is as gratuitous as can be. The one naked girl dancing in that completely retarded bar-fight (at the beginning) was quite funny too. Her dancing skills were limited to 'wiggle waggle, bounce & shake' and 'duck' when a hurled brew-holder comes flying over her head. Now that we're talking retarded scenes anyway, the movie reaches an absolute lowest point in the middle during an embarrassing wrestling scene that goes on for way too long. It's Deathstalker vs Utterly Fat Growling Barbaric She-Thing. I think that says enough.But you have to at least give Jim Wynorski some credit: He really watched and understood the first DEATHSTALKER movie. He took several elements of the first film (characteristics of the 'hero', the nudity,...) and enlarged, emphasized and mainly spoofed them (out of the many examples of this, Warthog-Brute returning for a silly cameo is one of them). So at least, he aims to please and for the bigger part also succeeds. Even that inappropriate western-vibe is, at times, again present on the movie's soundtrack. And will you check out that one, eardrum-piercing sound-sample, used numerous times throughout the movie. It goes "shreeeeeeeuw!!!"... What was up with that? Other highlights include scenes distinctively showing Wynorski's inexplicable ways of film-making. One scene has Stalker and Reena on a horse, trying to escape some villains repeatedly shooting exploding arrows at them. The villains just shoot without aiming and the scene is packed with seemingly pointless explosions. It's like Wynorski just said to the pyro-technicians "When I yell action, you guys go nuts, okay? I don't care how you do it, just make sure you blow the hell out of everything!". And so they did.Another favorite scene of mine (and another pointless one it is), is the one with the zombies at the green cemetery. I don't know why or how this cemetery is all green, but it is. Just look at it: Green graves all over the place. Magnificent. I guess it's all just proof that DEATHSTALKER II is one in a row of many successes by a genius film-maker. So, watch more Wynorski films is the main message here. Thanks for listening, and I'm off to prepare myself mentally for entering the third installment, undoubtedly yet another epic tale of mind-boggling barbaric fantasy, called DEATHSTALKER AND THE WARRIORS FROM HELL. Unfortunately, it was not directed by Jim Wynorski.

w22nuschler I always loved "B" movies that have fun and don't take themselves too seriously. Add a likable male star in John Terlesky and the beautiful former Penthouse Pet in Monique Gabrielle and you have a classic. Even though this is a "B" movie, it has good enough special effects to get by. Probably the other most important part to make this a great movie are the two nude scenes by Monique Gabrielle! The movie starts out with the real Princess Evie being replaced by a fake. She recruits the Deathstalker to take her to the castle and reclaim her crown from Jarek the Sorcerer. She predicts their future and offers a reward if he will help her out. They battle bandits and Zombies along the way. Monique has a great line when they go to sleep for the night. She says "Stalker is that your sword, or are you just glad to see me". The next day they are caught by a group of women and they put him on trial by combat because he is a womanizer. He has to fight in a boxing ring and they play the Rocky Theme as he enters the ring. He has a very funny fight to the death with a huge woman. He wins and realizes Monique really is the princess. Monique plays the dual role of the princess and the fake princess. She did a great job in each role. As the fake princess she is made up and looks gorgeous. Her costumes are nice and revealing. The real princess spends her time in a brown outfit and she is not made up at all. She still looks gorgeous. Monique leaves the woman's camp when Deathstalker shows interest in the head woman. Stalker leaves when she becomes serious and comes to the rescue of Monique. They finally make it to the castle. Stalker is captured and Monique is attacked by the guards. They rip off her dress to check her heart. Monique boobs look great in this short nude scene. She was definitely hired for her body, even though she does a great job of acting. Later Stalker is saved by the fake princess. She wants to have sex with him and then kill him(this is how she keeps her appearance). She has on a Leia slave girl like outfit on and then she show her two talents in an excellent scene in bed. Nice shots of her boobs! Way to go Monique, it was well worth the wait. The good Monique kills the fake Monique and Stalker takes care of the Sorcerer. The final scene has Monique wearing a sexy white outfit and giving him a reward, herself! What a great reward. What a really fun movie with a really nice nude scene thrown in for Monique fans. 10 out of 10!

Deathstalker2 Deathstalker II is the presumed follow-up to 1982's low-budget Deathstalker. Aside from the title, it's hard to consider this film a sequel. In fact, this film is so much more enjoyable than the first (or the third or fourth, for that matter) that such a statement is probably a good thing!The film begins with Deathstalker (John Terlesky) infiltrating what appears to be a treasure room in a dark castle. He sneaks up to an altar, upon which rests some form of crystal artifact, and in a scene that recalls either Raiders of the Lost Ark or Conan the Barbarian (no, really!), gingerly takes it from its place of honor and pockets it. Without warning, a legion of robe-enshrouded swordsmen rush in, and Deathstalker battles them off in truly heroic fashion.well, somewhat heroic fashion. After dispatching a few of these menacing thugs, Deathstalker breaks through a shuttered window, drops to a stone bridge below, and leaps to the back of his waiting horse before escaping into the night. In his wake, a scantily dressed warrior woman named Sultana (Toni Naples) steps to the window from which he made his daring escape and watches him vanish into the darkness. Without missing a beat, she turns to her remaining guards and vows, "I'll have my revenge, and Deathstalker, too!"--at which point the title card "Deathstalker II" comes up with a fiery background and a Morricone-esque theme, fully setting the style for this b-grade but surprisingly entertaining sword-and-sorcery "epic".In his travels, our hero encounters a lovely young woman who claims to be the wrongfully dethroned Princess Evie (former Penthouse Pet Monique Gabrielle). She implores him to aid her on her journey to reclaim her kingdom and overthrow the villainous wizard Jerak, who has used his skill at the black arts to create Princess Evie's evil duplicate (Mirror-Universe Monique Gabrielle). With the promise of fortune and fame thrown in his lap, Deathstalker accepts the task and the adventure begins in earnest.Along the way, the adventuring duo battle swarthy castle guards, undead zombies, sinister traps, amazon women warriors, an insidious pirate and his team of enforcers, the wicked Sultana, and numerous other hardships before finally reaching the castle and engaging in mortal combat with Jerak and Evil Evie. Who wins? Well, that would be telling, but suffice it to say that this is a quest that is certainly worth the 78-85 minutes(depending on which version you get)spent watching it.Filmed on a budget of apparently tens of dollars, Deathstalker II is rife with high-quality costumes, props and sets. Beautifully adorned styrofoam rock walls can be spotted in the opening scene as well as in the following tavern sequence, which also clearly features a poured concrete floor and fluorescent lighting in addition to numerous wooden barrels marked "BEER"!!! The ominous woods are made even more ominous with the generous use of a fog machine and well-concealed klieg lights streaming from between the trunks and branches of the trees. Colored light gels and inspired location shooting provide unique ambience for each new area, and the climactic sword battle (the Duel of the Titans mentioned in the title) is actually very well-choreographed and presented with a dynamic musical accompaniment. However, these technical achievements are only the tip of the cinematic iceberg!The actors chosen are all-too-clearly enjoying their respective roles to an enormous degree. Watch Monique's eyebrows as she gazes into her crystal doorknob and tells "Stalker" about the adventure he's about to undergo! Witness the unbridled amount of midget abuse that occurs throughout the film! Prepare for the Gladiator-like battle between Stalker and Gargo the Amazon! And be sure to spot the Fiat parked in the upper-left corner of the Amazon village scene!If you're in the mood for an unpretentious sword-and-sorcery adventure, Deathstalker II is your ticket. It's not Shakespeare, but it is a lot of fun. Rent it tonight (or better yet buy it outright!), and make sure your fridge is fully stocked with brew!P.S. Don't pop this sucker out of your VCR/DVD player until after you watch the outtakes over the end credits! Think of it as your reward for giving this one a chance!