Deathstalker

Basically Conan but with less budget and more boobs. Quite enjoyable if you can get into its knuckleheaded '80s heavy metal vibe. Show it to your local feminists and watch their heads explode.

Hero: "Saved a girl from being raped by mutant raiders...gonna rape 'er. Stopped a hooded warrior from killing my battle companion in the night...gonna let 'er join our party, then rape 'er. The evil warlock has allowed his dinner guests to pleasure themselves with his new slave bride...gonna rescue 'er from this nightmare, then rape 'er. Evil warlock enscorcells his soldier to appear like the queen so he can kill me...gonna foil the plot and...rape him/her." AKA: Deathraper/Rapekiller/RapeRaper

A greatly enjoyable bit of wild self-indulgent fun, that doesn't take itself too seriously. A main protagonist who is as masculine as possible with his stereotypical Nordic personification, and a female lead who is an equally strong and independent personnae, in a film full to the brim with everything one would want from the genre - sword and sorcery, cheesy dialogue, muscles and boobs. Progressive liberals and feminists - this is not for you and frankly I don't care if you hate it. It's awesome

THe ultimate in cheesy 80's sword and sorcery flicks. Boobs, violence and monsters. A Must-see!

I had no idea what was going on in this. This movie is a rape riot; even the hero is a rapist :O There's probably gonna be mentioning of this raping my time away when I trudge on through to part FOUR.

As a sword and sorcery movie "Deathstalker" hits all the right notes, Corman movies always attempt to give the audience what they want. There's boobs, magic, boobs, action, and boobs. It's also a Corman budget, the kind kept in a stinky shoe box in a trailer park on the seedy side of town. So if you want to compare it to the classics like Conan or Beastmaster, then this one is obviously like a three legged kitten with patches of fur missing and a gross skin condition, ugly, but still cuddly.

What a butt movie, and yet its awesome. Drowned in the amount of boobs. Don't watch if you're a feminist

"And lo, the ancient scrolls tell of the Deathstalker. One whose sword- and cocksmanship is only matched by his inability to give a single fuck. And so, he actually STALKS DEATH! Unless we read it wrong and it's supposed to be "Deaths Talker", in which case wtf?"

When people talk about a movie that is "so bad it's good", they mean Deathstalker. Cheesetastic!

This terribly bad/so-bad-its-good "Sword and Sorcery"/"Conan the Barbarian"(1982) rip-off is more memorable for the copious amounts of rape compared to any kind of fighting, magic or monsters. Despite the occasionally fun cheese or enjoyably bad moments, the movie is really only for hardcore fans of the fantasy genre and bad movies in general.

Goofy sword and sorcery tale that took a number of tropes and runs around vomiting on them on every opportunity. I admire their enthusiasm more than their end result.

Love how the script was apparently sent forward in time from ‘83 to the late 90s for junior high me to edit and add stuff like “this warrior babe has a big sword and is topless,” “there are naked babes mud wrestling in this room,” “lots of babes in leather bikinis in the background here” etc to every scene

This is a really bad fantasy movie. The script has horrible dialogue and the action scenes are sometimes lacking excitement. The actors can't save the weak material. Overall this one is a clear misfire.

the best things in life should include forgetting the movie deathstalker exists

Cheeseball 80s fantasy romp in the aesthetic traditions/proportions of Vallejo, without the production values or screenplay to do it justice. Still a lot of fun with a heap of caveats that others have already mentioned. The few polystyrene-spectacular set pieces have a chaotic charm, the actors are hamming it like champs and there's a weirdo interlude (with the emphasis on lewd) every other scene. Questionable but also extremely silly stuff, and ultimately so very bad it's a little bit good

All boobs and no blood makes Deathstalker a dull film.

It's amazing how anaemic this is even for a cheap, exploitation fantasy film. It has its joyfully strange moments, but for the most part it is either inept or trying to cram as much naked female flesh as possible onto the screen, most of which is uncomfortably non-consensual or out-of-place (mud wrestling in a fantasy world, really?). That it's too lazy even care about the resolution of its own story or reaching a form of entertainment for the viewer is enough to say how pointless it is.

typical feminist bullshit.

Absolutely bloody pathetic. This film proves there is bad so bad no amount of boobs can save it.

I can't say I'm necessarily in favour of reparations for historical atrocities in all cases, but I feel like we should really do something for all the women who had to watch this on dates in the '80s...(is it better or worse that there's now a multi-million dollar sub-industry of virtual pornography dedicated to men's fantasies of magically transforming into women and being raped?)

What to say of this? Sure, it's bad. Entertaining as well. Perhaps not enough for a better score.

Wow was this a shitty movie. It's not bad because it's low budget, it's bad because it was ineptly made and there was nothing fun or exciting anywhere.

I think there were boobs.

Abysmal fight choreography killed this real quick

Decent cheeseball barbarian movie.

That's only because movies like it make mystery science theater possible. There are bad movies that are sickeningly bad but then there are movies like this that are so pathetic they can be hilarious.

Less Conan, more Nocan

wretched. Bad acting, horrible fight choreography, laughable special effects and ridiculous costumes lead to nothing but wasted time.

Mister Death (I assume that's his first name) Stalker is one rape-y guy. You can't but love a character who saves a damsel from rape just to rape her himself. More boobs than in any loin-cloth fantasy I have seen so far. Somewhat amusing, but doesn't really stick.

This movie is why the stigma of fantasy being for gross weirdos exists. It's terrible. Irredeemably, unbelievably terrible. Beyond the insanely inept script & editing, the underwhelming performances, and some comically bad costumes, it's also just really bad fantasy that clearly doesn't understand what makes the genre so fun & doesn't care, either. You'd think it was satire, because it's that bad, but it's not. This is pathetic, sexist garbage that isn't worth the money spent making it. Awful.

Goodness me, I'm no prude, but this film feels like the producers were told that there needed to be "some nudity" in it and they took it to mean it had to have "all the nudity it could conceivably have". There is so much nudity in this film, most of which comes in the form of a sexual assault, that it tips over past the fun point and lands in "really kind of disturbing" pile.

I've always appreciated the oppressive and lewd elements of the sword-and-sorcery subgenre, and Deathstalker certainly has a lot of both. The general plot structure isn't bad and a few story beats are actually executed fairly competently. It's not a good movie but it scratches a certain kind of fantasy itch very well, and I appreciate it for that.

Gratuitous nudity and violence. It doesn't really have anything else going for it. Yes you read that right. Those are the good points.

Low budget sword and sorcery film in the vein of Conan and Beastmaster with super cheap sets, wardrobe, and poor effects, but it makes up for all that with plenty of gore and sleaze. It's so un-PC that it becomes part of the charm. Rick Hill does an ok job as the lead as does Lana Clarkson as a swordswoman. It's barely 80 mins long which ensures that it's moving at a briskly pace. If I had seen this during my pre-teens, this would probably have been one of my favorites.

Trashscore multiplicator: 3

I don't feel like I should enjoy this movie nearly as much as I do.