Sword-swinging warrior Deathstalker (Rick Hill, in an unconvincing blond wig) embarks on a quest to unite the three powers - a sword, an amulet and a chalice - in order to defeat evil magician Munkar (Bernard Erhard), who has seized the throne from the rightful king. Or some such nonsense.To be honest, the plot isn't all that important. What is important is that the makers of this sword and sorcery movie know not to take matters too seriously, taking the cheeze-o-meter up to eleven, making the film a lot of fun despite its obvious budgetary restraints.The result is a gloriously tacky flick featuring all manner of silliness, with lashings of nudity and a smattering of gore. Female warrior Kaira (the lovely Lana Clarkson) wanders around with her tits out (as do most of the women in the film); Deathstalker encounters a troll-like creature in a cave (a crappy John Carl Buechler creation); Munkar keeps an eye-ball-eating pet monster in a wooden chest; there's a debauched feast at Munkar's castle that features female mud-wrestling; a pig-man pulls a bloke's arm off and uses it as a weapon; and Munkar meets a bloody demise, pulled apart by horses.6.5 out of 10, rounded up to 7 for Clarkson, and beautiful Barbi Benton as sexy Princess Codille.

What a nightmare! It should be minus points for this sort of flicks. Nothing is worth of attention and the mechanical music is a symbol of the bad taste and complete lack of talents of its creators. If someone is interested only in boobs or on the other hand in beautiful face of a leading role played by Rick Hill may waste his/her spare time but there is tones of better that kind of movies elsewhere.

...or it might as well be one. Just about every other scene some village girl it getting raped or a harem is frolicking with her boobs out. If they were to make a live-action version of the "Major Boobage" South Park episode, this would be it. The acting is terrible. The effects are campy and low budget. There is little to no continuity between scenes...or even some times within scenes. Apparently they've made 3 more Deathstalker movies. They will have to be on my list. The 3rd one had a MST3000 version of it done in the mid 90s.As another reviewer stated, this is a Fantastically Bad movie! Definitely a great boozing movie with a couple of friends.

Deathstalker starts as a great warrior known as Deathstalker (Rick Hill) hears his destiny from from a Witch named Toralva (Lillian Ker) in which he must find the three 'powers of creation' which will grant him or whoever has them unlimited power & immortality, a Chalice, an Amulet & the Sword of Justice which he sets out to find & recover. The Chalice & Amulet are already owned by evil sorcerer Munkar (Bernard Erhard) who is also seeking the Swod of Justice & gain unlimited power himself, having deposed the rightful king form his throne the evil Munkar now rules the entire Kingdom. Munkar is holding a tournament in which his successor will be named, a tournament featuring the greatest warriors in the Kingdom who all fight & kill each other until one is left & that warrior will inherit Munkar's throne & power. Deathstalker decides the tournament is a good way to get close to Munkar & enters but the evil sorcerer has the tournament rigged in his favour & has no intention of surrendering his power...This Argentinian & American co-production was directed by John Watson & is typically cheap sword & sorcery offering from Roger Corman who was obviously trying to cash-in on the popularity of Conan the Barbarian (1982), personally I think Deathstalker is a pretty poor film with virtually no story or sense & there is little reward in sitting through the admittedly short 76 minute running time which does actually feel a lot longer. The script is a total mess, it really makes no sense & has no story to get involved with. At first there's some nonsense about the Powers of Creation & then that is forgotten about & the tournament held by Munkar is introduced & there are many scenes which make no sense either like the cave bit where Deathstalker finds the Sword of Justice or the strange ending where Munkar & Deathstalker don't fight it out but sort of stare at each other a bit. The character's are poor, no-one is given any background & character's really do just come & go with only Deathstalker himself an ever present. The women are all there to look good & wear tiny bra's & if they are lucky get to bare their ample breast's, there's a Pig warrior guy who I have no idea about & various magic spells & tricks which again go nowhere while even the tournament aspect is dull with barely one fight shown. All in all a bit of a disappointment & my expectations weren't even that high either, there just isn't enough story, action, violence or depth for me to be able to recommend Deathstalker.The look of the film isn't that bad, the locations & sets are alright if limited while the costumes & props are OK too. There's not much blood or gore here, there's a couple of brief decapitations, a bit of blood splatter & someone is pulled apart at the end in another brief scene. The best bit of gore is probably when the Pig mutant warrior pulls someones arm off & beats someone else with it. There's some nudity too with various topless women. There's a also a rather random moment when two women decide to mud wrestle for Munkar.Filmed in Argentina on what must have been a low budget the production values are alright but I found it dull overall lacking in any sort of story or memorable action. The acting is rough, I can't say I'm surprised no-one in the cast has gone on to do anything of note.Deathstalker is one of those films with a great title & great artwork on it's video box but is a lame film, no story or action or decent gore means the 76 minute running time feels a lot longer. Followed by Deathstalker II (1987), Deathstalker and the Warriors from Hell (1988) & Deathstalker IV: Match of Titans.