New Additions to the Musings and Ramblings:
ANTHROPOPHAGOUS 2 (1981)
REVENGE OF THE DEAD (1983)
SHIRLEY THOMPSON VERSUS THE ALIENS (1972)
PIU TARDI CLAIRE, PIU TARDI... (1968)
THE CLONING OF CLIFFORD SWIMMER (1974)
More Recent Musings...
Welcome to Fantastic Movie Musings and Ramblings!
Home of Dave Sindelar's Movie of the Day archive. Now featuring reviews of over 2500 titles! Click here for more info on this project.
Random Sampler:
HERCULES AGAINST THE SONS OF THE SUN (1964)
Hercules helps some Incan rebels defeat their tyrannical usurper king.
You wouldn't believe my surprise when I checked the original Italian title of this sword-and-sandal flick and saw the name of Ercole rather than Maciste; this is actually a Hercules movie. Only, what is he doing in Peru at the time of the Incas? All I can say is that he must have gotten really lost. Actually, this movie doesn't have a lot of the conventions I know and love from these movies; no evil queen attempts to seduce him, he doesn't fight a single fanged beasty (looking at some llamas doesn't count), he doesn't lift one large rock over his head and throw it at anyone (he just barely lifts a couple of large rocks a few inches off the ground, but this hardly impresses me), and not once does he bend any iron bars to escape from a prison. So what does the movie have in place of this? Talk. Endless talk. A couple of tepid action sequences and then some more talk. You're grateful for the big fight scene at the end of the movie, but by then it's too late to make up for the fact that the first eighty minutes emphasized costume design and dance choreography over fight choreography. Mark Forest plays Hercules; his great talent was in making it look like his every act of strength was really, really hard.
Movies Unlimited: VHS
Fantastic Movie Musings & Ramblings Copyright © 2008 by David Sindelar
Powered By Etomite
Help support this site by shopping through one of these affiliates:
Powered By Etomite
Help support this site by shopping through one of these affiliates: