On the planet Amzot (renamed Quasar in the revival), the space barbarian family Zandor, Tara and son Dorno fight alongside their giant pets the Herculoids-laser dragon Zok, space rhinoceros Tundro, rock ape Igoo and the shape-shifting Gloop and his son Gleep-to keep their planet safe from invading robots, mad scientists and mutants. The plotlines are rooted in science fiction and fantasy. Eleven new episodes were produced in 1981 as part of the Space Stars show. Hanna-Barbera produced one season for the original airing of the show, although the original 18 episodes were rerun during the 1968–69 television season, with The Herculoids ending its run on September 6, 1969. The show debuted on September 9, 1967, on CBS. The Herculoids is an American Saturday-morning animated-cartoon television series, created and designed by Alex Toth, that was produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions. On the plus side, the film does feature some better creature effects than usual for the typical Troma film and/or Z-budget video release of the era with Brett Piper even managing to include some stop-motion animation effects.22 min. The rest is a dreary series of adventures/encounters in the wilderness before a showdown with the evil warlord. ![]() There are many scenes that should have been cut – notably those involving the idiot tomfoolery among the mutant lizard men, which all come accompanied by bleeps or animal and bird cries on the soundtrack. ![]() The film switches you off right from Linda Corwin’s opening airhead bimbo voiceover introduction. There is plenty of not so much bad movie-making as the downright dull. What you feel like it needed was discovering some of the B-movie pizazz of films that came along only a few years later with the likes of Dinosaur Island (1994), Beach Babes 2: Cave Girl Island (1995), Dinosaur Valley Girls (1996) and Bikini Girls on Dinosaur Planet (2005), which played into the cheesy absurdity and featured numerous bikini-clad and topless girls. On the other hand, while some Troma films end up being triumphs beyond their titles and come with a ridiculously cheesy faux cynicism that makes them undeniably watchable, A Nymphoid Barbarian in Dinosaur Hell is just cheap, unwatchable and dull. (1966) of a heroine in a fur bikini fighting dinosaurs – even if Linda Corwin fails to fill her bikini out as spectacularly as Raquel Welch did. This is also a film that has readily embraced the B movie notion from One Million Years B.C. Most of these are made on low-budgets and have not received wide distribution.īrett Piper seems to have built on the basics of the Roger Corman cheapie Teenage Caveman (1958), albeit where the twist ending that we are in a post-apocalyptic future rather than the prehistoric past is now taken for granted. The film comes from low-budget filmmaker Brett Piper who has also made the likes of Mysterious Planet (1982), Galaxy (1986), Mutant (1988), They Bite (1996), Drainiac (2000), Psyclops (2002), Arachnia (2003), Screaming Dead (2003), Bite Me (2004), Shock-o-Rama (2005), Bacterium (2006), Muckman (2009), The Dark Sleep (2013), Queen Crab (2015), Triclops (2018) and Outpost Earth (2019). ![]() (See also Films With Deliberately Ridiculous Titles). It was one of the releases from Troma Films who always specialised in coming up with outrageously over-the-top titles to sell films – see the likes of I Was a Teenage TV Terrorist (1985), Surf Nazis Must Die (1987), Stuff Stephanie in the Incinerator (1989), Chopper Chicks in Zombie Town (1991), Fertilize the Blaspheming Bombshell! (1992), Space Zombie Bingo!!! (1993), Pterodactyl Woman from Beverly Hills (1997), Scrotal Vengeance (2001) and Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead (2006) to name but a sampling. Indeed, it is a triumph of sensational titling over content – without a doubt, the film would have the film relegated to the junkpile of utter forgettability had it gone out with a more mundane name. A Nymphoid Barbarian in Dinosaur Hell must count as one of the great exploitation titles of all time.
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