Hercules in the Haunted World (1961)

Original title: Ercole al Centro della Terra

Peplum. Italy. Starring Reg Park, Christopher Lee, Leonora Ruffo, George Ardisson, Ida Galli, Rosalba Neri & Raf Baldassarre. Directed by Mario Bava & Franco Prosperi.

EVC (Holland). English dubbed. Letterboxed (slightly). By adjusting your TV settings you could get a pretty good widescreen.

Wonderful, trippy gothic-peplum! Bava demonstrates again his ability to create gold from nothing - this low budget film looks like a mega-budget epic and is hands down THE most visually imaginative peplas around. According to me and many others this is about as good as the genre gets! 5/5

Hercules in the Haunted World (1961)

Original title: Ercole al Centro della Terra

Peplum. Italy. Starring Reg Park, Christopher Lee, Leonora Ruffo, George Ardisson, Ida Galli, Rosalba Neri & Raf Baldassarre. Directed by Mario Bava & Franco Prosperi.

DVD: Fantoma (USA). English dubbed. Widescreen. Excellent quality!

Wonderful, trippy gothic-peplum! Bava demonstrates again his ability to create gold from nothing - this low budget film looks like a mega-budget epic and is hands down THE most visually imaginative peplas around. According to me and many others this is about as good as the genre gets! 5/5

The Throne of Fire (1983)

Original title: Il Trono di Fuoco

Fantasy. Italy. Starring Peter McCoy, Sabrina Siani, Harrison Muller Jr. & Pietro Ceccarelli. Directed by Franco Prosperi.

VTC (Sweden). English dubbed. Fullscreen.

Another cheap sword and sorcery flick by Prosperi with the usual actors, but at least it's better than the slow-mo yawn The Invicible Barbarian. A slow-moving and very low budget film with a synth score that kind of works if you like the genre and watch it alone late at night. But of course it's not "good". 2/5

The Invincible Barbarian (1982)

Original title: Gunan il Guerriero

Fantasy. Italy. Starring Peter McCoy, Malisa Longo & Sabrina Siani. Directed by Franco Prosperi.

Magnum Video (Finland). English dubbed. Widescreen.

Crappy and extremely low budget sword and sorcery nonsense. This film is noteworthy for being shot almost completely in slow motion (for budgetary reasons no doubt)! This finnish video seems to have this film mixed up with Brescia's Amazons and Supermen a.k.a Barbarian Women. 2/5

The Invincible Barbarian (1982)

Original title: Gunan il Guerriero

Fantasy. Italy. Starring Peter McCoy, Malisa Longo & Sabrina Siani. Directed by Franco Prosperi.

Key Video (Greece). English dubbed. Fullscreen. This tape is no longer in my collection.

Crappy and extremely low budget sword and sorcery nonsense. This film is noteworthy for being shot almost completely in slow motion (for budgetary reasons no doubt)! 2/5

Slave of Rome (1961)

Original title: La Schiava di Roma

Peplum. Italy. Starring Guy Madison, Rossana Podestà, Mario Petri, Giacomo Rossi-Stuart & Raf Baldassarre. Directed by Sergio Grieco & Franco Prosperi.

VPD (UK). English dubbed. Letterboxed.