Amazingly dreadful British bash at a sword and sorcery flick with a cast of tens and the budget of an average village Christmas panto. Midbogglingly awful. So much so that - for the first time in ages - I have managed to find a film that, apparently, no one has ever watched before. At least, if anyone has watched it, no one has thought it worthwhile reviewing the thing on IMDb. So I am.
This is, by any standard, a terrible film. technically shoddy in every respect from the set design: wrinkly sheets, plastered and painted (with emulsion by the look of it) standing in for 'rock' and 'cave walls' - to painted cardboard boxes stacked to play the part of 'Stone Walls', and flesh crushing rollers made from carpet roll tubes. The music is endlessly the same three chords on a organ with a drum being beaten seemingly at random. The acting is amateur - with only a few of the cast trying to do anything other than get their words out without messing them up. A truly awful experience. The 'restored' version currently available on Amazon Prime contains 20 seconds where the screen goes blank for no obvious reason.
The one star I did give it is for a weird little coda when (SPOILER) the high priest we have just seen vaporised in the distant past as Atlantis sinks beneath the sea, turns up in modern day London. It's so weirdly out of nowhere and nonsensical that it almost works.
This is, by any standard, a terrible film. technically shoddy in every respect from the set design: wrinkly sheets, plastered and painted (with emulsion by the look of it) standing in for 'rock' and 'cave walls' - to painted cardboard boxes stacked to play the part of 'Stone Walls', and flesh crushing rollers made from carpet roll tubes. The music is endlessly the same three chords on a organ with a drum being beaten seemingly at random. The acting is amateur - with only a few of the cast trying to do anything other than get their words out without messing them up. A truly awful experience. The 'restored' version currently available on Amazon Prime contains 20 seconds where the screen goes blank for no obvious reason.
The one star I did give it is for a weird little coda when (SPOILER) the high priest we have just seen vaporised in the distant past as Atlantis sinks beneath the sea, turns up in modern day London. It's so weirdly out of nowhere and nonsensical that it almost works.