Claysaba Excellent, Without a doubt!!

CommentsXp Best movie ever!

Neive Bellamy Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

Ariella Broughton It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

liam1694u ...or it might as well be one. Just about every other scene some village girl it getting raped or a harem is frolicking with her boobs out. If they were to make a live-action version of the "Major Boobage" South Park episode, this would be it. The acting is terrible. The effects are campy and low budget. There is little to no continuity between scenes...or even some times within scenes. Apparently they've made 3 more Deathstalker movies. They will have to be on my list. The 3rd one had a MST3000 version of it done in the mid 90s.As another reviewer stated, this is a Fantastically Bad movie! Definitely a great boozing movie with a couple of friends.

gavin6942 The warrior Deathstalker (Rick Hill) is sent by a witch on a quest to find a chalice, an amulet, and a sword, two of which are held by the wicked sorcerer Munkar (Bernard Erhard). Deathstalker finds the sword almost immediately, which has been hidden by the witch in a cave. Sword in hand, Deathstalker sets out to Munkar's castle.The film is noteworthy for launching the career of Lana Clarkson, who became a recognizable cult celebrity in the genre. Clarkson would go on to work with executive producer Roger Corman on the films Barbarian Queen and Barbarian Queen II: The Empress Strikes Back, and guest star in an episode of the television show Black Scorpion.Basically, this is just pure fun. Nothing great, and not even a high quality cheese. This is what happens when you get Roger Corman mixed up with the folks in Argentina, throw in Playboy Playmate Barbi Benton and stunt man Richard Brooker (one of the guys to play Jason Voorhees).

Nate Rubin This movie opened up an entire genre for me: hilariously cheesy movies. While checking out IMDb's 'top 250' list with a friend looking for something to watch, I saw a link on the left of the screen for the 'bottom 100'--a list of the lowest rated movies on the site. I started searching for trailers for some of the titles like Santa Claus Conquers The Martians and The Blade Master. Eventually I discovered the trailer for Deathstalker, the quintessence of so-bad- it's-good movies. We immediately searched for it and found a site that was streaming it. Right off the bat it delivered the goods. In the first scene, Deathstalker eliminates a group of medieval thugs who were chasing a beautiful girl and trying to capture her. The fight choreography was at the time the worst I'd ever seen--of course after Deathstalker I went on to see dozens of other movies with average ratings of one star or less, so you can only imagine. There are one-liners and gratuitous nudity all throughout the film accented by over the top costumes and ridiculous props, not to mention that Deathstalker himself slaughters at least hundred bad guys. In one scene you hear the swoosh of Deathstalker's blade and then see a shot of a plastic head flying through the air. This movie is basically a huge rip-off of Conan The Barbarian, the Schwarzenegger classic that came out in 1982, the year before Deathstalker was made, which also had lots of violence, nudity, and one- liners. Bad knock-offs make up a pretty big majority of the hilariously cheesy movie genre. After we finished watching Deathstalker, me and my friend liked it so much that we tried to find Deathstalker part II to watch immediately, but we couldn't find it anywhere, so we settled for Deathstalker part III, Deathstalker And The Warriors From Hell, which we found on another movie streaming site. Deathstalker III was partly made up of scenes taken directly from the original. It was significantly less watchable, which explains why Deathstalker has a 3.9 out of 10 rating on IMDb and part III has a 2.0. Rick Hill, the actor that played Deathstalker, went on to a mildly successful career as a B movie action hero, including two Deathstalker sequels, Deathstalker And The Warriors From Hell (Deathstalker part III) and Deathstalker IV: Match of Titans. For Deathstalker part II someone else was cast for his part. If I had to sum this movie up in one sentence it would be: a sleazy, greased up buff guy slaughters an endless amount of people effortlessly while surrounded by naked woman and people in stupid costumes. This is entertainment at its best in 1983. I give Deathstalker a 7 out of 10 for those with a keen sense of humor, but plainly speaking, this movie is hot garbage.

zardoz-13 If the Spaghetti spear and sandal movies of the late 1950s and early 1960s were an acquired taste, the sword and sorcery movies of the 1980s qualify as an even greater acquired taste. 'Greater,' in this instance, is used in a pejorative sense. Sword and sorcery movies are lowest denominator adventure epics that fixate on bared breasts, bloody swords, and beefy biceps. Some infamous tyrant rules a kingdom without right and a hero must challenge his dominance. Many classify these "Hercules" movies as 'guilty pleasures.' Nobody takes them seriously. After all, they are ancient, larger-than-life hokum about mesomorphic men and wicked villains pitted against each other in a life or death struggle in fantasy settings. Witches and a plethora of phantasmagoric creatures lurking about in caves fleshed out these movies. John Frankenheimer protégé James Sbardellati made his directorial debut with the colorful but cheesy R-rated opus "Deathstalker," an amusing 81-minute spectacle lensed on location in Argentina, South America. Like "The Sword and The Sorcerer" and "Ator, The Fighting Eagle," "Deathstalker" and its three sequels sought to cash in on the success of John Milius' "Conan the Barbarian" with Arnold Schwarzenegger. "Conan" depicted the exploits of a mighty, muscle-bound troubleshooter who battled wizards, demons, and witches. The Milius film boasted a big budget, thanks to its indulgent producer Dino De Laurentiis. Schlockmeister Roger Corman produced "Deathstalker" and it looks bargain basement priced. Kentucky native Rick Hill, who later appeared in "The Devastator" and "Warrior Queen," provides the brawn as the eponymous macho man. Hill brings his sardonic perspective to this relatively thankless, one-dimensional role. Initially, his conduct appears less than heroic. In the first scene, Deathstalker rescues a damsel-in-distress from loathsome adversaries. He slays these plug-ugly opponents, who apparently have have incest as well as leprosy in their genes, with skill and dexterity. Ironically, Deathstalker resumes theire depredations where they had left off, only to be distracted by a courier from a deposed monarch. King Tulak (George Sorvic) pleads for Deathstalker to rescue his comely daughter Princess Codille (Playboy Playmate Barbi Benton of "Hospital Massacre") from the evil sorcerer Munkar (Bernard Erhand of "Firefox") who used his magic to depose Tulak and plans to make her his wife. Deathstalker turns down Tulak's request.Later, a crone of a witch, Toralva (Lillian Ker), appeals to Deathstalker. "With your strength and courage, Deathstalker, you can use the power of the sword to get the amulet. He who wears it cannot die. With the sword and the amulet, you can get the chalice and reunite the three powers of creation." Moreover, he will be able to destroy Munkar, the source of all evil in the kingdom. Toralva explains that Munkar possesses the amulet of life and the chalice of magic, but lacks the crucial third component: the sword of justice. In fact, Munkar sought to steal the sword from Toralva,but Deathstalker rode to her rescue. Clearly, our protagonist liked her better than Tulak. The witch assures Deathstalker that he is the only man with enough courage and strength to wield the sword and consolidate the powers of life, magic, and justice. Before Deathstalker can embark on his journey, he has to burrow into a cave, locate a creature, Salmaron (Augusto Laretta of "The Official Story"), who Munkar had turned into a monster and confined in the earth for 30 years without a glimpse of sunlight. Deathstalker clashes with a giant that accosted him in the cave and defeats him after Salmaron slings him the magic sword. Later,Salmaron takes advantage of the sword's magical powers to convert him back into a human being.Not long afterward, Deathstalker teams up with the two warriors, the agile Oghris (Richard Brooker) and the lovely Kaira (Lana Clarkson of "Barbarian Queen") on their way to Munkar's kingdom. Kaira has no qualms about baring her breasts and responds to Deathstalker's lusty inclinations. The trio ride off to compete in an "Enter the Dragon" style combat tournament hosted by the nefarious Munkar. The latter wants to determine which warrior will become heir to his kingdom. Never does it occur to these pugnacious combatants that the sorcerer has no plans to die. In fact, only Deathstalker seems to realize that Munkar is up to no good. Indeed, Munkar only wants these foolish warriors to annihilate each other so he can kill the surviving champion and never fear about anybody deposing him.The saving grace of "Deathstalker" is that the filmmakers don't take themselves seriously and they have an ample number of scantily-clad, nubile babes wandering around the ancient sets. Sbardellati does a good job of cross-cutting among the series of fights so that it ends up being an exciting montage of combat. When Deathstalker swings his sword, heads fly. What Sbardellati lacks in orchestrating the swordfights, he equals with buckets of blood and gore. One combatant smashes his opponent to a pulp with an enormous mallet. The violence is amoral. Our hero shows his amoral side early in the action when he behaves as villainously as his opponents. Later, after the witch recruits him to the side of good and honor, Deathstalker reforms and behaves like a hero. My favorite character is Howie, a cheesy looking "Ghoulies" type monster that lives in a treasure box and contents itself with a diet of fingers and eyeballs fed to it by Munkar. The most imaginative scene has Munkar changing one of his warriors into Playboy model Barbi Benton so he can get close enough to stab Deathstalker with a dagger. Of course, Deathstalker never meets his match. Sbardellati and "Barbarian Queen" scenarist Howard Cohen kill off poor Kaira far too early. Altogether, "Deathstalker" qualifies as a hokey sword and sorcery sage with some average photography, interesting music, and lots of blood, gore, and boobs.