Toni Naples The fun came through in the film! You could tell everyone involved was enjoying themselves. I've seen this movie so many times and it never fails to make me smile. Hail Sultana! You fine folks made one of the most entertaining Sword and Sorcery films if the 80s.
OH MY GOD, You guys were the best, this is a great movie. is there any truth to the rumour that your departure was so abrupt because you were late for a plane?
@@kurvos If you're gonna be internet mean, be internet mean to the right person eh? - It's Monique Gabrielle that plays the two parts in this movie...You silly sausage! XD
This movie has one of the best commentary tracks ever recorded. Jim Wynorski (director), John Terlesky and Toni Naples (actors) are hilarious in the commentary. Wynorski even encourages people to take snack breaks when extraneously added scenes show up. You will never hear another commentary as no holds barred as Deathstalker 2.
dirtnastyish - The original DVD release has it (This flick would never get a special edition re-release), but I wouldn't go after that edition because people want outrageous prices for it. Future releases of Deathstalker 2 were done as part of a bargain bin movie 2-pack or 4-pack which has commentary for Deathstalker 1 & 2 (Barbarian Queen and The Warrior & The Sorceress are the additional movies on the 4-pack). Like the original release, the 2-pack is overpriced a a "collector's edition", but you can usually find the 4-pack for about $15 USD.
DocGriffon Thanks for the heads up. I checked ebay and found the 4 pack but it would ship from Australia. Maybe I'll get it or I'll just wait for one to list from the US. Thanks again.
"Aw, bless her heart, she's trying!" Honestly, I'd rather watch Monique Gabrielle in this, a terrible actress who's clearly pouring everything she has into doing the best she can, than say, Ben Kingsley in Bloodrayne, an Academy-Award-caliber talent who clearly stopped caring at all five minutes after he stepped on set. And how seriously they didn't take this film is what makes it work. It's almost ahead of its time, what with self-referential deconstructive genre films having risen to prominence since Scream.
I have seen this movie over 100 times easily. I have it and still watch it at least twice a year even now. I love Monique Gabrielle, bless her kind heart. Amazon Women on the Moon is another great bad flick with her talents. The crypt scene has the names of many people involved in the movie. This is *absolutely* the best Deathstalker movie. Best chemistry for sure. So glad you used the actual credits!
I actually LOVE when medieval fantasy movies have some modern-ish technology. Accursed Farms did a review of a game called Strife that had a similar aesthetic where after a nuclear war everyone reverted to medical technology after a couple generations but they still had some modern tech in the wealthiest cities. We need more of that.
When I first heard about this movie, it kinda looked like Army of Darkness without the time travel, with the silly nature of it. Deathstalker here actually reminds me a lot of Bruce Campbell, I love it. :D
you missed the part where if you throw a ninja star at a little person they explode leaving behind little smoking booties and nothing else! it is important that people know these facts!
It's too bad Roger Corman apparently had this weird thing where he just didn't want his films to be funny. This one turned out to be super fun and it's great, I can see why so many people say it's the best Deathstalker. And that "No laughing!" in the credits... I think it's my favorite part.
FANTASTIC movie, I even own it on laserdisc! The music by Chuck Cirino is fun, and I even got to meet Monique Gabrielle once and told her how great it was.
GoodBadFlicks It's the best one of the series. It has just the right amount of action and humor to stay interesting throughout. I'm glad it didn't take itself serious like the other films did. The commentary on the double feature DVD release is very entertaining as well. It's worth tracking down a copy, even if it's pretty pricey today.
i made a suit ov chainmail and drove interns mad with the Deathstalker challenge. Watch DS 1. roll wire from spool. Watch DS 2. roll and snip. DS1 commentary. link and pattern. DS2 commentary. weave "You know they made 4 right? wanna take a break and watch the 3rd one with MST3K?" no one ever made it to 4. the suits would be finishished and everyone remembers the movie in the background ov their lives. bonus feature. sound tracks! sound effect cues. cannibalism. 'beastality?' is it beastiality if its rape? important questions.
Yeah one of my favorite movies, seen it way more than 5 times. The first time I watched this film some friends and I had been watching several sword and sorcery films and noticed the reused fight scene because we saw it three times first in Death Stalker II, then the Barbarians, and I think the third one was Barbarian Queen
I found the VHS of this movie at a sale a local video store was having a couple of months ago, and boy did I make the right choice in picking this up. It's low budget, sure, but it's a got a fun sense of humor and adventure to it. Plus, that Deathstalker guy is one cool dude.
8:10 - "Jerak's sword fighting so whose shooting lightning?" That lightning is stock footage from 1986's Amazons (which is one of the best 80's sword-and-sorcery films in my opinion.).
the only thing that the deathstalker films had going for them were the posters. these belong to an age in which posters were actual paintings rather than photographs from the film, and thus came the phenomenon of posters that were better than the film itself... i recall to this day renting the deathstalker 3 video on the strength of the poster art and referring to the film itself as "a deception"...
5:30 WHOA!!!!!! I still catching that late on saturday nights when I was a kid! Epic funny review as always Cecil I didn't care for the first film at all but this film I've seen clips of on YT here&there I really do want to check out did it make dvd format?
Nice one Cecil, plenty of laughs, and i'm glad you returned to the series, it's a pleasant oddity. I guess you've seen the MST3K crew riff Deathstalker 3, did you feel it deserved it? After you mentioned Chopping Mall, I immediately thought "Future episode potential!", massively underrated preposterous 80s horror/comedy.
awesome! an " Amazon Women on the Moon" reference! i love that movie. i found it on DVD about 8 years ago, and it got all scratched. I've tried ordering it twice and both times it hasn't shown up. i feel like it's cursed.
I bought that 4 pack with the first two deathstalkers (having seen #3 on MST3k) and the barbarian queen movies. I was sort of unimpressed with the first, though it was enjoyable as these type of movies go, but seriously the second one was a high point for 80s sword and sorcery cheese for me. Plus the theme song redeemed any flaws the movie had (I'm looking at the overly long wrestling sequence). I was really pleased with the gag reel at the end of the movie, which really capped things nicely. Additionally, the sword duel at the end was really quite enjoyable. Great review.
The death of Eddie "Footstool" Laroza... recently dismissed by Ivan the Terrible for excessive brutality. Deathstalker dispatches him with the throwing star and he drops his explosive arrow as he falls, blowing himself up... cut to scene of his empty smoking shoes. Deathstalker goes on to finish off the rest of the "Fearless Five" (as Sultana calls them) including John "the Baptist" Von Basso (drownings a specialty) and Nick the Crippler of Kashmir-- I think his name says it all... Terrific flick... tons of fun and great scenery (and I don't mean the locations and sets)... LOL:) Later! OL J R :)
I actually joined in on a stream showing this a few nights ago, we were laughing that the cartoon stock sound effects and wacky reaction shots; but it totally makes sense now that I know the director was inspired by Bugs Bunny! I thought the two leads, while terrible actors, were genuinely cute together and made a good team.
One of the best music themes ever imo, or the whole score really (by Chuck Cirino by the way), also a very entertaining movie just like the first one even despite being campy or cheesy (or maybe because of that!). A guilty pleasure, perhaps also cause I'm a millennial! Thanks.
I've watched tons of your vids and this is only the second movie you've reviewed that I will definitely go out and get (the first was Oculus, which was awesome).
Can we all take a moment and appreciate how ridiculously hot John Tereksky is. Also I don’t think there is a movie where Monique didnt steal the show. I mean people still remember her scene in bachelor party and she was the best thing about Return of the swamp thing even beating out 80s heather locklear running around in lingerie.
A shit man, how you manage to find deathstalker 2? I've been wanting to find this movie for like forever on DVD or at least on VHS! please tell me where to find this bizarre classic sequel! :3 I love this flick
If you haven't done "Ice Pirates", you really should. It's really cheesy, but it's one of my favorite low budget sci-fi movies (along with "Battle Beyond the Stars").
It's my fav of the series. But i kinda see where Roger Coreman is coming from in thinking it's way too goofy to be part of the franchise. Perhaps cut out the scenes reused from the original. Rename it into something else. And you have yourself an awesome stand alone flick. That's an absolute classic.
This is a guilty pleasure of mine. The movie is soooooo bad but also very entertaining. It's just great to poke fun at or watch with some (drunk) friends :P
Man this movie looks great, you are right monique is adorable. Also to bad they didn't say lions and tigers and bears, instead of dragons ogres and wolfs.
we had fun thats all that counts
Toni Naples The fun came through in the film! You could tell everyone involved was enjoying themselves. I've seen this movie so many times and it never fails to make me smile. Hail Sultana! You fine folks made one of the most entertaining Sword and Sorcery films if the 80s.
OH MY GOD,
You guys were the best, this is a great movie.
is there any truth to the rumour that your departure was so abrupt because you were late for a plane?
Great film even greater outtakes.
Yikes!! Watch out everybody! ....It's The Sorceress, Sultana!! Eeeeeek!! O__O
@@kurvos If you're gonna be internet mean, be internet mean to the right person eh?
- It's Monique Gabrielle that plays the two parts in this movie...You silly sausage! XD
This movie has one of the best commentary tracks ever recorded. Jim Wynorski (director), John Terlesky and Toni Naples (actors) are hilarious in the commentary. Wynorski even encourages people to take snack breaks when extraneously added scenes show up. You will never hear another commentary as no holds barred as Deathstalker 2.
DocGriffon agreed, the commentary was a riot
DocGriffon Where can you see the commentary? Is it on a special edition DVD?
dirtnastyish - The original DVD release has it (This flick would never get a special edition re-release), but I wouldn't go after that edition because people want outrageous prices for it.
Future releases of Deathstalker 2 were done as part of a bargain bin movie 2-pack or 4-pack which has commentary for Deathstalker 1 & 2 (Barbarian Queen and The Warrior & The Sorceress are the additional movies on the 4-pack). Like the original release, the 2-pack is overpriced a a "collector's edition", but you can usually find the 4-pack for about $15 USD.
DocGriffon Thanks for the heads up. I checked ebay and found the 4 pack but it would ship from Australia. Maybe I'll get it or I'll just wait for one to list from the US. Thanks again.
Use "Roger Corman Sword & Sorcery Collection" when you search Ebay. You'll find plenty of US sources. ;)
"Aw, bless her heart, she's trying!"
Honestly, I'd rather watch Monique Gabrielle in this, a terrible actress who's clearly pouring everything she has into doing the best she can, than say, Ben Kingsley in Bloodrayne, an Academy-Award-caliber talent who clearly stopped caring at all five minutes after he stepped on set.
And how seriously they didn't take this film is what makes it work. It's almost ahead of its time, what with self-referential deconstructive genre films having risen to prominence since Scream.
I've loved her since Swamp Thing. She is suuuuper hot.
@@Axolotl_Mischief yea she’s really hot in this movie and terror toons
Those ending credits were amazing.
I have seen this movie over 100 times easily. I have it and still watch it at least twice a year even now. I love Monique Gabrielle, bless her kind heart.
Amazon Women on the Moon is another great bad flick with her talents.
The crypt scene has the names of many people involved in the movie.
This is *absolutely* the best Deathstalker movie. Best chemistry for sure.
So glad you used the actual credits!
I love the part where the clone princess says she could just eat him up. His response of "Bones and everything huh?" was perfect and very funny.
Every time I get a song stuck on my mind that I really don't want to be stuck on, I just sing the Deathstalker II theme. It's nature's reboot button!
Still one of my all time favs. I’ve always loved the movies where the cast and crew really try to produce an enjoyable movie and it shows.
Those medieval payphones sound like a nifty idea, they should put them in fantasy films more often! XD
I actually LOVE when medieval fantasy movies have some modern-ish technology. Accursed Farms did a review of a game called Strife that had a similar aesthetic where after a nuclear war everyone reverted to medical technology after a couple generations but they still had some modern tech in the wealthiest cities. We need more of that.
reminds me of the flintstones where they had all those creative designs for ancient versions of televisions and lawnmowers n stuff
This movie is guaranteed to cheer you up
When I first heard about this movie, it kinda looked like Army of Darkness without the time travel, with the silly nature of it. Deathstalker here actually reminds me a lot of Bruce Campbell, I love it. :D
I was thinking the same thing!
you missed the part where if you throw a ninja star at a little person they explode leaving behind little smoking booties and nothing else!
it is important that people know these facts!
Thanks to this channel my knowledge of awesome cheese flicks and B movie babes has grown by leaps and bounds.
"...and the two escape into the backlot of the renaissance festival." Haha, pure gold.
It's too bad Roger Corman apparently had this weird thing where he just didn't want his films to be funny. This one turned out to be super fun and it's great, I can see why so many people say it's the best Deathstalker.
And that "No laughing!" in the credits... I think it's my favorite part.
FANTASTIC movie, I even own it on laserdisc! The music by Chuck Cirino is fun, and I even got to meet Monique Gabrielle once and told her how great it was.
My favorite of the Deathstalker series.
snakeoi1sean mine too, such a fun movie
GoodBadFlicks It's the best one of the series. It has just the right amount of action and humor to stay interesting throughout. I'm glad it didn't take itself serious like the other films did. The commentary on the double feature DVD release is very entertaining as well. It's worth tracking down a copy, even if it's pretty pricey today.
i made a suit ov chainmail and drove interns mad with the Deathstalker challenge.
Watch DS 1. roll wire from spool.
Watch DS 2. roll and snip.
DS1 commentary. link and pattern.
DS2 commentary. weave
"You know they made 4 right? wanna take a break and watch the 3rd one with MST3K?"
no one ever made it to 4. the suits would be finishished and everyone remembers the movie in the background ov their lives.
bonus feature. sound tracks! sound effect cues. cannibalism. 'beastality?' is it beastiality if its rape?
important questions.
This movie looks awesome, especially after seeing the credits/blooper reel.
Have seen all four Deathstalker films. MY opinion? This is the ONLY one WORTH watching! LOVED the outtakes with the credits!
Yeah one of my favorite movies, seen it way more than 5 times. The first time I watched this film some friends and I had been watching several sword and sorcery films and noticed the reused fight scene because we saw it three times first in Death Stalker II, then the Barbarians, and I think the third one was Barbarian Queen
Donald Campbell all good selections! You should check The Sword and the Sorcerer if you haven't seen that one. Hawk the Slayer too.
Ha Sword and the Sorcerer is one of my all time favorites... I have seen most of the good sword and sorcery movies from the 80's and 90's
I found the VHS of this movie at a sale a local video store was having a couple of months ago, and boy did I make the right choice in picking this up. It's low budget, sure, but it's a got a fun sense of humor and adventure to it. Plus, that Deathstalker guy is one cool dude.
8:10 - "Jerak's sword fighting so whose shooting lightning?"
That lightning is stock footage from 1986's Amazons (which is one of the best 80's sword-and-sorcery films in my opinion.).
That's lunch 30 minutes :)))
the only thing that the deathstalker films had going for them were the posters. these belong to an age in which posters were actual paintings rather than photographs from the film, and thus came the phenomenon of posters that were better than the film itself... i recall to this day renting the deathstalker 3 video on the strength of the poster art and referring to the film itself as "a deception"...
spiderlime the posters really did sell the movies. Although yes, they may have oversold them lol
+GoodBadFlicks That's why you made that video about movie posters,right?
+lightningmanmatthew not directly influenced but one of the movies where the posters really sold them. They are gorgeous
I have seen Deathstaljer II years ago. My favourite part of this film is the ending where a collection of mistakes are ahown. They were funny.
5:30 WHOA!!!!!! I still catching that late on saturday nights when I was a kid!
Epic funny review as always Cecil I didn't care for the first film at all but this film I've seen clips of on YT here&there I really do want to check out did it make dvd format?
My favorite b-movie of all time. Enjoyed the review! Everything about this film is entertaining...
gp365y Thanks!
Thank you for this. These cheesy fantasy movies are my guilty pleasure ever since i saw Beastmaster as a kid. Hard to find them though. Awesome
great review. i've always been curious to see the first one after looking at random trailers but this one looks interesting too.
End credits are too funny.
Will Dynamite I love that. I wish more movies would do it.
Nice one Cecil, plenty of laughs, and i'm glad you returned to the series, it's a pleasant oddity. I guess you've seen the MST3K crew riff Deathstalker 3, did you feel it deserved it? After you mentioned Chopping Mall, I immediately thought "Future episode potential!", massively underrated preposterous 80s horror/comedy.
I must have watched this movie 30 times in the 80's.
2:09 Oh bless her little heart, she's tryin...
The "Community" reference was quite the awesomeness. God, I love this channel.
Sölvi Elísabetarson Thank you! I aim to please :)
Door knob crystal ball lol
Thanks!! This is one of my favorite channels
Bruce Wayne thanks!
awesome! an " Amazon Women on the Moon" reference! i love that movie. i found it on DVD about 8 years ago, and it got all scratched. I've tried ordering it twice and both times it hasn't shown up. i feel like it's cursed.
Christ ,Soltana was smoking hot
Never knew their was a deathstalker 2. I remember watching the first one as a kid, i think its on netflix now. Gonna watch it again :)
There is actually 4 of them, although 1-2 are the best. 3 has the worst version of the character of Deathstalker and 4 is mostly reused footage from 1
I bought that 4 pack with the first two deathstalkers (having seen #3 on MST3k) and the barbarian queen movies. I was sort of unimpressed with the first, though it was enjoyable as these type of movies go, but seriously the second one was a high point for 80s sword and sorcery cheese for me. Plus the theme song redeemed any flaws the movie had (I'm looking at the overly long wrestling sequence). I was really pleased with the gag reel at the end of the movie, which really capped things nicely. Additionally, the sword duel at the end was really quite enjoyable. Great review.
[breaks the spoon im using to eat ice cream with as i turn my head to the screen] 6:37
The scream sound effect is the most epic. man I forgot my love for this movie.
I will have my lunch and watch the review of Deathstallker II :)
I have never hearde of this gem. Thank You for this video and showing this movie.
the only Deathstalker movie ive seen. love this one.
***** very true. form what little i have seen any way. but yea this one is fun Bmovie sword and sorcery
I remember watching this on Skinemax when I was a kid. Nostalgia.
I wish all light hearted movies did blooper reels during end credit rolls. Why has this not caught on as much as end credit scenes?
These movies are all amazing, I even love the spinoff :D
My favorite in the series. Dude from Chopping Mall in the lead 👍
Wynorski movies are the best. He knows exactly what he's making and has fun doing it. Monique Gabrielle is a sweet person and a national treasure.
this and deathstalker 1 finally got a bluray release on aug 30th 2016. its a twoferone by shoutfactory.
No matter the quality of everything else, the theme song is great.
Holy, cow, tha'ts what I call cutting corners! That's turning a square into a effing circle! XD
After credits scene is awesome.
Vuyisile Sibeko one of the best post cred blooper sequences ever. So much fun
That's what made me love this Deathstalker more than the others; the bloopers at the end.
Plus, it's just an all-around fun campy movie. :)
well they say a lot of squares can make a circle
Aww. You left out the part with the exploding midget....
theproplady THE WHO WHAT?
The death of Eddie "Footstool" Laroza... recently dismissed by Ivan the Terrible for excessive brutality. Deathstalker dispatches him with the throwing star and he drops his explosive arrow as he falls, blowing himself up... cut to scene of his empty smoking shoes. Deathstalker goes on to finish off the rest of the "Fearless Five" (as Sultana calls them) including John "the Baptist" Von Basso (drownings a specialty) and Nick the Crippler of Kashmir-- I think his name says it all...
Terrific flick... tons of fun and great scenery (and I don't mean the locations and sets)...
LOL:) Later! OL J R :)
I actually joined in on a stream showing this a few nights ago, we were laughing that the cartoon stock sound effects and wacky reaction shots; but it totally makes sense now that I know the director was inspired by Bugs Bunny!
I thought the two leads, while terrible actors, were genuinely cute together and made a good team.
5:38
"wait for this week's ep hehe"
hahahahahahaha!! xD
One of the best music themes ever imo, or the whole score really (by Chuck Cirino by the way), also a very entertaining movie just like the first one even despite being campy or cheesy (or maybe because of that!). A guilty pleasure, perhaps also cause I'm a millennial! Thanks.
I've watched tons of your vids and this is only the second movie you've reviewed that I will definitely go out and get (the first was Oculus, which was awesome).
I really need to see this film.
Smartbad it’s on UA-cam, I’ve watched it a ton of times!
wow that scene with killing mercenary via long distance is genious
Love this channel!
Would be nice if they released more movies like this. Would love to know what the ending for Sultana involved
if you could reboot any 80s B-Movie any way you wanted what would it be and how would you change it to make it your own?
id take the blob and make it into a porno or mabye take a zombie flick and do the same
Can we all take a moment and appreciate how ridiculously hot John Tereksky is. Also I don’t think there is a movie where Monique didnt steal the show. I mean people still remember her scene in bachelor party and she was the best thing about Return of the swamp thing even beating out 80s heather locklear running around in lingerie.
2:45 +500 Points for the Saints Row IV reference
I don't get it?
A clone would only have the goatee if said clone was from a parallel universe :p cool vid.
3:10 Anyone else notice the modern street light in the background?
Good eye!
6:02 "How exactly would a knee to the back be lethal?"
Bwaaa ha ha ha.....I'm going to hell.
Easily the best Deathstalker, just a fun time. How you haven't covered Dinosaur Island is beyond me.
I met Monique Gabrielle at Chiller Theater back in the 1990's she was so sweet and beautiful
Lucky! I would have loved to have met her, she seemed very swwet.
Man, Monique Gabrielle. I remember seeing her in "the bachelor party" when I was in my early teens; sometimes puberty was awesome.
+Herobox 1248 Had a VHS copy of that when I was a young lad. Reround and rewatched that scene so much it broke the cassette.
Was Swamp Thing for me. Always thought she was suuuuuper hot.
“Bless her heart” is the greatest insult ever.
Deathstalker II has a DANGEROUSLY catchy theme song! XD 13:26
When the footage from Deathstalker 1 appeared I thought I was having a stroke.
I like the references you did in this, awesome! The phone one was funny as well as the fireball fireball. lol!
John Huffy thanks!
This is hands down my favorite B movie!
A shit man, how you manage to find deathstalker 2? I've been wanting to find this movie for like forever on DVD or at least on VHS! please tell me where to find this bizarre classic sequel! :3 I love this flick
Sweet! Thanks for the tip!
This Deathstalker reminds me a little bit of Space Adventure: Cobra which is an '80's anime.
Awesome Futurama reference.
George corman should've run for president, this guy can make a movie about the fall of the Roman empire by using the change stuck in his sofa
I love this video you should do the third deathstalker movie
I really liked Deathstalker 2, more than the first film. It's funny, entertaining and Monique Gabrielle is, shall we say, hard to forget.
I really wanna see the next 2
the hencman at 3:34 look like will sasso
Love this review!
If you haven't done "Ice Pirates", you really should. It's really cheesy, but it's one of my favorite low budget sci-fi movies (along with "Battle Beyond the Stars").
It's my fav of the series. But i kinda see where Roger Coreman is coming from in thinking it's way too goofy to be part of the franchise. Perhaps cut out the scenes reused from the original. Rename it into something else. And you have yourself an awesome stand alone flick. That's an absolute classic.
2:45 Nice Community reference.
These wee actually very good perhaps great movies. Yeah not super technical and all that but damn they were fun to watch.
This is a guilty pleasure of mine. The movie is soooooo bad but also very entertaining. It's just great to poke fun at or watch with some (drunk) friends :P
7:31 - discount Van Damme... Am I righ? Am I righ??
I liked this movie, but the best part is really that theme music.
I would like to watch your review about the movie "The Warriors". I'm a big fan of it and would be awesome !!
I've played the game it's just as good
There's a game!?!? :/
I was just thinking that I'd like to watch a light hearted fantasy B Movie that doesn't take itself too seriously... Oh wait no it wasn't.
OMG, Monique Gabrielle and Toni Naples were so hit in this movie!
Can you also review the third and fourth? I wanna see what those are like
Bruce Wayne 3 yes, 4...possibly. Its really mostly clips from the first 3 with about 20 minutes of new footage.
Man this movie looks great, you are right monique is adorable. Also to bad they didn't say lions and tigers and bears, instead of dragons ogres and wolfs.
Additional Music Chris Young?! "Ghost Rider, Hellraiser, Priest and Drag Me To Hell"-Chris Young?!
¡Otro éxito del cine argentino! ¡Amo a mi país!