Yet another movie I love that Rob hasn't seen. We've instituted a new policy modeled after The Christy Experiment. Every month I get to make him watch a movie he's never seen from my collection as long as it's not a horror film. Yesterday, we spent 5 hours walking around the National Gallery of Art so when we got home, the last thing I wanted was a movie I had to think during.Sonja (Brigitte Nielsen) is just a peasant girl when a queen comes through her settlement and takes a fancy to her. Sonja refuses and scars the woman's face. In retaliation, the queen kills her family and throws her to the soldiers. Now, Sonja is a peasant girl with a vengeance. A ghostly figure appears and gives her the strength to be unmatched with a sword by any man. While Sonja is training on how to be a man-hating barbarian warrior, her sister Varna (Janet Agren), is a temple guardian for priestesses whose job it is to watch over a talisman of destruction that feeds on light. The priestesses are all set to seal that badboy up in the ground when an army shows up, led by a queen wearing a golden half-mask. Varna escapes the ensuing bloodbath and manages to get a message to her sister through the High Lord Kalidor (Arnold Schwarzenegger) before she dies. Now it's up to Sonja to find and defeat evil Queen Gedren (Sandahl Bergman) and put the talisman in the dark before it destroys the world.
Brigitte Nielsen got her start in this film, as did Ernie Reyes, Jr. Also, the guy who plays Ikol, the Queen's right-hand man, Ronald Lacey, is the same creepy bastard who plays the Nazi whose face melts in Raiders of the Lost Ark. Also from Raiders, Terry Richards, who played the sword-waving show-off that Indy shoots, is here playing a bandit king.
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