Post by RedKing on Feb 2, 2007 8:36:35 GMT -8
This is one of my favorite sword and sandal flicks, even without any monsters or fantastic elements. Mark Forest stars as Hercules(actually Machiste in the original version) and he takes on the 3 sons of Genghis Kahn to save an eastern European village. Herc gets to fight all 3 brothers-each has a specialty-one is strong(Herc crushes him against a wall),one is an archer and the other uses a nasty whip. I originally saw this on TBS at like 3am back in 1991 and they showed a black and white print for some reason. There's been a couple of dollar DVD releases of this-one from the company that releases double features through the Dollar Tree stores and one from Digiview. The Dollar Tree one is not good at all-it says on the case that the movie is HERCULES,PRISONER OF EVIL and then they cut off the pre credits sequence and the opening credits Digiview's seems to be missing a minute or two off the pre credits sequence but has the opening titles. Both versions of the dollar store disc have the TV pilot HERCULES AND THE PRINCESS OF TROY as the co-feature. This was one of a very large amount of sword and sandal movies AIP released. Alot of these later films seem to have been released to TV and limited theatrical release at the same time, as they all have AIP TV logos but there are one sheets, though they are very basic 2 or 3 color designs using photos rather than art work in many cases.
