Sabrina Siani Movies

Filmed in 1982 and never released theatrically in the U.S., this fantasy-adventure film revolves around an epic battle between the forces of good and evil, culminating in the struggle for a legendary throne. Good is personified by Siegfried (Peter McCoy, aka Pietro Torrisi), who has been granted the temporary power of invisibility and whose sorcerer-father makes him about as invulnerable as Superman. Siegfried's enemy is the evil Morak (Harrison Muller), offspring of Satan's messenger Belial (Muller again) and an evil witch. If Morak is not able to marry Princess Valkari (Sabrina Siani) before he gains the throne, it will become a literal hot seat and consume him in flames. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide

As the 1980s began, Italian director Michele Massimo Tarantini (here credited as Michael E. Lemick) segued from his violent action films of the 1970s (Poliziotti Violenti, Napoli si Ribella) into a series of sword and sorcery films, of which this entertaining entry is probably the best. Pietro Torrisi (using the pseudonym Peter McCoy) stars as Sangraal, who is crucified over the city he rules and forced to watch it destroyed by barbarian hordes. As if this weren't bad enough, the goddess of fire, Rani (Margareta Rance), kills his lover in front of him. Needless to say, Sangraal escapes and goes after the goddess, as well as her sleazy avatar, Nanuk (Mario Novelli), who ends up sitting on his own dagger and reaching a (dare we say it?) painful end. Along the way, the heroic Sangraal battles monkey-men, subterranean zombies, and a dark mystic (Massimo Pittarello). There is some inventive cinematography by Giancarlo Ferrando, an appearance by the stunning Sabrina Siani, and a Pietro Regnoli script that stays remarkably free of the stentorian nonsense that usually passes for dialogue in this sort of film. All in all, not a bad way to spend a rainy afternoon. ~ Robert Firsching, All Movie Guide

Blood and gore abound as good takes on evil in this futuristic sci-fi actioner that is basically a knock-off of the Mad Max series with a low-budget Italian twist. The year is 2020 and the setting is post-nuclear holocaust Texas. It's a dusty, nasty world now as can be seen in the opening scenes when a band of drunken outlaws viciously rape and murder innocent nuns at a mission. They then crucify the priest. Their debauched reveling is interrupted by roving rangers who engage the villains in a blood-soaked, bone crunching fight. The rangers manage to save a terrified young woman from the melee, and the heroic leader and she fall in love and head for the peaceful land she describes to him. Years pass. The hero and the girl are married and she is pregnant. He is working at a refinery. Trouble erupts when a meglomaniacal Neo-Nazi dictator and his cruel minions attack the heavily fortified refinery and begin trying to convert the hapless workers to his insane idea of the New Order. Of course, the hero, after witnessing the rape of his wife, decides to get revenge. Unfortunately, the dictator blows the hero away with a machine gun. More time passes and the workers have become slaves to their new leader, but fortunately at this point, the story is far from over and eventually after considerably more blood is graphically spilled, the forces of good inevitably triumph. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide