This movie would've rated higher as a fun B-movie, as it's appropriately campy, hammy, and has some decent action, with a lot of pretty girls in the starring roles; unfortunately, Barbarian Queen suffers from a major, crippling flaw in the absolutely ridiculous amount of rape that occurs in the film. Considering that it's basically a medieval rape and revenge flick, plus the fact that it's a trashy 1980s movie, a single rape wouldn't be surprising to see. Yet all the major female characters are raped, forming a semi-regular interval of rather seedy and unpleasant sexual content throughout the film that the viewer can't put behind them. Watching a film with a bunch of women running around in amazon bikinis should be fun and sexy, but the constant, gratuitous rape just leaves you feeling dirty, despite the inevitable victory of the women in the film against their tormentors.
Review of Barbarian Queen
