One for the gals. Roger Corman often did a twist on his old formulas by making it "one with girls in it" - so here Lana Clarkson and Katt Shea are two ladies who go about rescuing Clarkson's fiancee. That's right, the girls come to the rescue of the guys.
This gives it a lot of freshness and this is a fun movie. Clarkson in particular is good value - she didn't have that huge a role in Deathstalker (she was the permanently topless warrior queen) but here she's front and center. I felt quite melancholy watching her run around, give it her all, seemingly having a blast. This would be her best role, I guess. It's a shame she never, I don't know, wound up playing a cop on a nice long running series.
Of course there are the usual rapes and tortures - in one long not particularly pleasant sequence Clarkson is tortured on the rack. It clashes with the subplot involving a little kid.
Shea is fine - I wish she'd had more of a unique character to play, like telling one liners or be cowardly or lecherous or something. Just something distinctive.
The guy who plays the love interest is good. The production values are decent. This is hokey but fun.
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