bensonmum2 There's really no need to go into plot details – with a movie this bad they hardly matter. Suffice it to say that what plot there is involves three (at least I think it was three – but it might have been two – not that anyone should give a rat's patooty) stones that, when put together, give the holder some sort of power (at least I think that's the point of the stones). Yada, yada, yada – who cares? None of it is in the least bit interesting anyway.I don't think you could make something as bad as Deathstalker and the Warriors from Hell even if you tried. It's horrible in every conceivable way – bad acting, poor direction, nonsensical plot, lame special effects, and everything else you can think of. In all honesty, I cannot think of many movies that I would call worse than this pile of garbage. So, you may ask, "if it's so bad, why not rate it a 1/10?" My answer – while it's as bad a movie as you'll run across, Deathstalker and the Warriors from Hell features a few moments of complete unintentional humor that did bring something resembling a smile to my face. I realize that giving the movie a point based on a couple of ridiculous moments might not be the best way to rate a movie, but it's not like I gave it a 10/10. 2/10 is still bad! I actually watched the Mystery Science Theater 3000 version of the movie. While I enjoy(ed) MST3K, I'm one of those who sincerely believe that the movies featured on the show should be judged on their own merits. You shouldn't assume that just because a movie was lampooned on television that it's a bad movie. Tastes and opinions vary. So even some of the real stinkers that appeared on MST3K like Manos or Skydivers, I've seen without the riffing. But in the case of Deathstalker and the Warriors from Hell, I cannot imagine watching it on its own. It's so bad and features so very little in the way of entertainment that MST3k appears to be the only way to go.

Seth Nelson This movie is so bad, I feel like I want to hit myself for an hour, that's what!!!!! Sorry, but, that's just more intelligent than watching this train wreck!!!!!This train wreck I'm referring to is called "Deathstalker and the Warriors from Hel...Heck!" This movie is just like that other bad movie "Cave Dwellers," both of which are just about the same in plots and quality. Luckily, the big brains over at "Mystery Science Theater 3000" decided to come to the rescue; taking these movies and making them watchable!!!!! Especially this movie!!!!! It's so awful, it's actually worth watching if you have the robots on the bottom of the screen yapping off about this film!!!!!Stay away from this film, unless it's on MST 3000.1/10

lemon_magic This is the kind of movie that makes you go back and look at the two Conan movies (even the crappy "Conan The Destroyer") and appreciate what was good about them, silly and immature as they were. The Conan movies may have been escapist pulp, the 2nd one may have been misguided and inept, but they obviously had the money and the production talent to LOOK good. Nothing looks good here, and it short circuits everything the actors are trying to do. The director seems to be fond of his material, but he has no ability to mold it into anything compelling, or even interesting. It is apparent that DS&TWFH is counting heavily on whatever good will the first two movies in the "Deathstalker" franchise generated. The filmmakers seemed to have swapped out the original actor for a new guy, cut the budget and production quality back to "Direct To Video/Made For TV" levels (seriously, can you imagine this getting a theatrical US release EVER,even in the late '80s?) and generally done everything they could to kill the series dead. (Apparently there was a Deathstalker IV, though; the mind shudders to think of what it must have been like.) What little I know about the DS series implies that it tried to distinguish itself in later episodes by being somewhat "tongue in cheek", and by featuring DS as a rogueish, over-confident adventurer. (In modern terms, his mouth tends to write checks that his body can't cash). That's a decent idea (even if "The Sword And The Sorceror" hadn't already done it), but in DS III the script takes the concept way too far by playing the hero as a "smug bastard". The new guy Relson/Nelson gives the role a game try and he works pretty hard to get his part over, but alas, he can't even maintain a consistent accent or speech rhythm from scene to scene (a dialog coach might have helped. Also a fight choreographer who gave a damn). Sean Connery himself couldn't rescue the part from the low level hijinks presented here, and Mr. Relson/Nelson doesn't even come close to carrying it off.Similarly annoying is Thom Christopher as the villain "Troxartas". Thom actually has some genuine acting moxie - he's the most interesting actor in the film, in an overblown, hammy way. And Christopher is obviously trying to bring an unorthodox effete-and-decadent-but-still-dangerous flavor to his character. But everything he tries, every line he delivers, just goes wrong for him. None of his choices (or the directors, or even the costume designers') work at all, and he's just irritatingly, hilariously bad.The romantic lead lady (who plays identical twins, BTW) is decent looking, but she's a stiff here; she's utterly miscast for a fantasy/adventure movie. She must have realized early into the movie that her part was worthless, and so she basically sticks one expression on her face and keeps it there for the entire movie. She doesn't help the movie, but she doesn't really hurt it any worse than anyone else - she's just a placeholder. I actually feel sorry for the actress, and I hope she went on to better things. So the movie has bad acting from the principles. It has bad writing. Bad costumes (it looks like Christopher had to wear his own laundry castoffs for his role). There's a lame soundtrack. There's some of the least convincing fight choreography in the history of Sword and Sorcery movies. There are dozens of lines of dialog that must have looked good on paper but which invariably clink like a lead washer on a sidewalk in the mouths of the actors. If the movie has a saving grace, it's that it doesn't seem to take itself very seriously, so its not completely loathsome. In fact this is actually a better made movie than perennial "Bottom 100" dweller "The Cave Dwellers" (which took itself utterly seriously). However DS&TWFH doesn't have the central focus point of Miles OKeefe's cartoon superhero physique to distract the viewer from the mediocrity of the proceedings.Who would enjoy it? DS&TWFH is only for the Sword and Sorcery fanatic who will watch ANYTHING as long as it is set in a medieval/fantasy setting with archaic costumes and affected speech rhythms. Even if you are such a fan, don't spend money to own it or watch it under any circumstances. Well, maybe $2.00 for a DVD at the bottom of the remaindered DVD pile at WalMart. You can always use it as a coaster or a skeet shooting disk.

Diana I've never seen the first two films in this series, and I can't say that i'm sorry about that. This egregiously bad 80's sword swinger ranks up there with the Ator the Fighting Eagle series as the worst of all time.The main character is a smug, sleazy idiot with a bad 80's hair-do and an accent that fluctuates more than the stock market did on Black Tuesday. No woman in her right mind would touch him, which explains why his love interest in the film is four barrels short of a load. His enemy is a guy who wears more furs and turbans than Liza, and gasps out his lines like he's trying to act during an asthma attack. Rounding out this cast is a really annoying princess, a stupid wizard who's the lost member of ZZ Top, and a sorceress with a grating voice who tries to roast our hero's nuts(my favorite part of the film, by the way).The movie starts out in a village(Renn Fest) where Deathstalker is being his usual smug, oily self. He impresses the local yokels by fighting a guy while standing on a log, then goes to a fortune teller/wizard to get his fortune told. I pretty much know what the guy would have told him, that his film career was over and he should take that job at the car dealership, but he never got that far because the bushy bearded wiz was in conference with a princess carrying a giant faux crystal door handle. The wizard was toting one of these hideous kitsch baubles around as well, and apparently when you put them together it is a key that unlocks a fabulous city full of wealth(yeah, right). Some men wearing metal bats on their heads attack, and the wizard disappears by spinning rapidly. He leaves his shoes behind, making you wonder(most horribly), why he didn't leave his clothes behind as well. The princess takes off with our hero, and promptly gets killed before she can slap him to head off his sleazy sexual advances. She gives him the Airwick air freshener, so that he can go find the other one himself. It would cut his body odor wonderfully.Cut to a later time,where the bad guy Truxartis? is doing his best Broadway musical singer imitation while going on about how he means to find the other stone and use its magical power for his own thing. He brings some guys back from the dead, using the powers of deepest, blackest Hell, so that they could lounge around his castle pretty much doing nothing. There was a waste of magic. Deathstalker, meanwhile, has met the dead princess's twin? sister, who is on her way to marry ol feather and furs Truxartis. He also meets his love interest, a fairly slow and rather strange girl with amazingly big hair and a problem with bathing. Her and he get along well together, not a big surprise.The movie devolves into a quagmire at this point, with plot points trailing off into nothing one after the other. The dead guys catch up with Deathstalker, but instead of killing him as they should, they pretty much do what they've done throughout the movie-which is nothing. The princess arrives at the castle, dresses in a silly looking faux harem costume, and spends the rest of the movie whining. The sorceress tortures idiot boy, the only detraction from the pleasure of this scene being the fact that he's wearing only the tightest of tights while she does this. Arrgh! The scrubby bearded wizard shows up again, nobody knows why, is captured and tortured by the femme fatale Truxartis, and is rescued by Deathstalker in a really lame fighting scene. Deathstalker frees the souls of the dead guys by giving them a mason jar, which was no loss to anyone since they were neither scary nor effective, and terminally lazy to boot. Truxartis comes to his stupid end, the princess and the wizard move into the fabulous city(didn't look that fabulous to me, but since the whole budget for the entire movie seems to have been about five dollars and some bags of peanuts, that's not really surprising), and Deathstalker rides off into the sunset, where we hope he gets a severe sunburn.