While I have a hard time not laughing myself silly when watching the first Deathstalker film, it was taken pretty seriously by the people who made it and was meant to cash in on the success of genre classic Conan The Barbarian. This sequel has no aspirations of making a serious barbarian film and has far less money to go around on this production. This project is inspired more by Saturday morning cartoons than Conan. Richard Hill does not return this time around as Deathstalker and is replaced by a much thinner John Terlesky. It is true John does not have the buff, He Man like physique of Richard Hill. But he still was in great shape and had enough athletic ability and charisma to carry this action packed film. Deathstalker 2 is a much different type of adventure film than the first installment. This film is very campy, tongue in cheek and full of one liners. The production value, acting and technical aspects to this film are horrible and look very cheap. The tone of this project is light and not taken serious at all and that is the film's strength. It performs well as an outlandish piece of camp. In some ways it reminds me of the series Hercules The Legendary Journeys, if it was made for no money. Overall, Deathstalker 2 is what most people look for in a B movie. Its funny, has heavy doses of swashbuckling action, moves along fast and its over. The first film is no doubt a better film and delivers more in the blood and sex department. But Deathstalker 2 doubles down on outrageousness and cheese in a way that makes this film endearing in its own right.

Nevermind my low rating. This is a really good movie.While the first DEATHSTALKER movie played it with a straight face (making it a much easier movie to poke fun at), this second installment in the series is tongue-in-cheek all the way. It did make me laugh as hard (or perhaps even harder at times) as with the first one, though maybe the enjoyment I got out of DEATHSTALKER II might be a bit less, how shall I put it... satisfying? Because after all, we're supposed to laugh with this one, and when it comes to the humor, it is as dumb as it gets. But still, nothing too wrong with that, I suppose. And to make things crystal clear from the get-go, the fun already starts in a most verbal way, just before the opening credits, when evil sword-wench Sultana shouts "I will have my revenge! And Deathstalker too!", and then whoosh, the "Deathstalker two" title-logo comes on. Brilliant.Part of the fun still comes from unintentional events, like scenes starting and ending abruptly, a chase-scene on horses were people just seem to be riding the same part of the road endlessly, stock footage from the first DEATHSTALKER (with a different look, easy to spot) inserted in this sequel for pointless reasons, etc. Another reason for incomprehensible chuckles comes from the movie's subtitle. It reads DUAL OF THE TITANS, supported by crackling flames... What titans? Who? Where are they? And like if the opening-credits weren't enough to make us reflect on this movie in a grinning or dumbly drooling fashion, then wait until the end-credits start to roll. They show us a handful of bloopers, at times even supported by silly voice-overs. Those bloopers are likely to kill off any braincells one might still have after viewing DEATHSTALKER II: DUAL OF THE TITANS! (Which titans?)The performances of the whole cast, this time, are indeed deliberately campy. Most actors handle a contemporary language completely unsuitable for a swords & sorcery film. Especially our hero (John Terlesky) seems to be exquisitely enjoying himself doing so. Blond Barbie-doll Monique Gabrielle (in a double-role, no less) was as painful as she was funny, watching her deliver her lines trying very hard to strike the right comical note (or vicious note, for that matter) when called for. And has John Lazar (of Russ Meyer's BEYOND THE VALLEY OF THE DOLLS fame) ever acted so laughably idiotic before in his life? Fitting for these slapstick characters, is the fact that they all seem to run around on sets made out of cardboard or styrofoam. In other words: real works of art.Of course, DEATHSTALKER II offers enough female eye-candy. Knockers and buttocks are displayed quite randomly in this one (thank you, Jim Wynorski). Sometimes they use stock footage from the first movie for this purpose, but thankfully there's new boobage to behold too. Especially the sex-scene between Deathstalker and evil princess Evie is as gratuitous as can be. The one naked girl dancing in that completely retarded bar-fight (at the beginning) was quite funny too. Her dancing skills were limited to 'wiggle waggle, bounce & shake' and 'duck' when a hurled brew-holder comes flying over her head. Now that we're talking retarded scenes anyway, the movie reaches an absolute lowest point in the middle during an embarrassing wrestling scene that goes on for way too long. It's Deathstalker vs Utterly Fat Growling Barbaric She-Thing. I think that says enough.But you have to at least give Jim Wynorski some credit: He really watched and understood the first DEATHSTALKER movie. He took several elements of the first film (characteristics of the 'hero', the nudity,...) and enlarged, emphasized and mainly spoofed them (out of the many examples of this, Warthog-Brute returning for a silly cameo is one of them). So at least, he aims to please and for the bigger part also succeeds. Even that inappropriate western-vibe is, at times, again present on the movie's soundtrack. And will you check out that one, eardrum-piercing sound-sample, used numerous times throughout the movie. It goes "shreeeeeeeuw!!!"... What was up with that? Other highlights include scenes distinctively showing Wynorski's inexplicable ways of film-making. One scene has Stalker and Reena on a horse, trying to escape some villains repeatedly shooting exploding arrows at them. The villains just shoot without aiming and the scene is packed with seemingly pointless explosions. It's like Wynorski just said to the pyro-technicians "When I yell action, you guys go nuts, okay? I don't care how you do it, just make sure you blow the hell out of everything!". And so they did.Another favorite scene of mine (and another pointless one it is), is the one with the zombies at the green cemetery. I don't know why or how this cemetery is all green, but it is. Just look at it: Green graves all over the place. Magnificent. I guess it's all just proof that DEATHSTALKER II is one in a row of many successes by a genius film-maker. So, watch more Wynorski films is the main message here. Thanks for listening, and I'm off to prepare myself mentally for entering the third installment, undoubtedly yet another epic tale of mind-boggling barbaric fantasy, called DEATHSTALKER AND THE WARRIORS FROM HELL. Unfortunately, it was not directed by Jim Wynorski.

I always loved "B" movies that have fun and don't take themselves too seriously. Add a likable male star in John Terlesky and the beautiful former Penthouse Pet in Monique Gabrielle and you have a classic. Even though this is a "B" movie, it has good enough special effects to get by. Probably the other most important part to make this a great movie are the two nude scenes by Monique Gabrielle! The movie starts out with the real Princess Evie being replaced by a fake. She recruits the Deathstalker to take her to the castle and reclaim her crown from Jarek the Sorcerer. She predicts their future and offers a reward if he will help her out. They battle bandits and Zombies along the way. Monique has a great line when they go to sleep for the night. She says "Stalker is that your sword, or are you just glad to see me". The next day they are caught by a group of women and they put him on trial by combat because he is a womanizer. He has to fight in a boxing ring and they play the Rocky Theme as he enters the ring. He has a very funny fight to the death with a huge woman. He wins and realizes Monique really is the princess. Monique plays the dual role of the princess and the fake princess. She did a great job in each role. As the fake princess she is made up and looks gorgeous. Her costumes are nice and revealing. The real princess spends her time in a brown outfit and she is not made up at all. She still looks gorgeous. Monique leaves the woman's camp when Deathstalker shows interest in the head woman. Stalker leaves when she becomes serious and comes to the rescue of Monique. They finally make it to the castle. Stalker is captured and Monique is attacked by the guards. They rip off her dress to check her heart. Monique boobs look great in this short nude scene. She was definitely hired for her body, even though she does a great job of acting. Later Stalker is saved by the fake princess. She wants to have sex with him and then kill him(this is how she keeps her appearance). She has on a Leia slave girl like outfit on and then she show her two talents in an excellent scene in bed. Nice shots of her boobs! Way to go Monique, it was well worth the wait. The good Monique kills the fake Monique and Stalker takes care of the Sorcerer. The final scene has Monique wearing a sexy white outfit and giving him a reward, herself! What a great reward. What a really fun movie with a really nice nude scene thrown in for Monique fans. 10 out of 10!

The first Deathstalker was a rather sombre, dull affair featuring a distinctly immoral and somewhat unlikeable 'hero' who thought nothing of forcing himself upon women and killing for the sheer hell of it.Much of the film felt hideously disjointed and made little or no sense (other than to show busty topless maidens...erm...OK, so it wasn't all bad in other words) Overall, the film could only really be described as a sub par Conan rip off at best. Certainly not a movie that warranted a sequel......but, I am in fact very glad that a sequel came along, as what we have here is one of those rarest of cinematic phenomena, a sequel that actually surpasses the original. Although to be truthful in this case it doesn't merely surpass it, but totally eclipses it!Deathstalker 2 is effectively the polar opposite of the first film. Whereas the original Deathstalker seemed to take itself deadly seriously (which was a grave mistake) this sequel actually plays more like an out and out comedy.Now I know that genre purists may scoff at the idea of a Sword & Sorcery comedy, and if it's any consolation, I initially (before viewing the film) did to, but believe me, this movie works so well!In fact, EVERYTHING works so well in this film!The actors are all clearly having a ball with the material (especially John Terlesky in the title role), the ladies are all universally gorgeous and mostly seem more than happy to wander around topless (a staple ingredient in the genre), the main villain hams it up perfectly, there's a really great, catchy music score and the final climatic sword fight between Deathstalker and his nemesis is very well staged!What more could you ask for?I recommend this awesome movie wholeheartedly - it's fun is more infectious than VD in a brothel!