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The Lost Empire

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Melanie Vincz plays a leather-clad cop out to get the guy who killed her brother (Phantasm's Angus Scrimm). Being a recluse on his own private island, the only way to get to him is via a martial arts contest. (Sound familiar yet?) She recruits the ample Raven De La Croix and convict Angela Aames to help. Some laughable fights and an almost complete collapse into farce are compensated for by the quasi-occult overtones, camp, bad one-liners, and high T&A value. Welcome appearances by Angelique Pettyjohn and Bob Tessier. Very bad, but hilarious B-movie.

This movie lacks all creditability but it's also an old favorite of mine. I've been hoping it will come out on DVD so I can see it again but no luck on that front so far. I really loved this movie in the 80's, when it stood as one of the few 'women kicking butt' films in existence. Movies like this shouldn't be lost to time and disinterest. However, female exploitation movies have a really bad name vs black exploitation films. Perhaps that because women didn't have a hand in shaping exploitation films that showed them out of the normal constraints of the current social mores. I loved this film as a teenager because woman were doing things that the society around me was saying women couldn't do. Today a woman on a motorcycle with a gun as the hero isn't seen as daring, or unheard of, but whne I saw this film, it was shocking. Bring this movie and others like it to DVD. I'd stand in line for a copy.

This is great fantasy adventure in which a group of sexy Amazonian women travel to a remote island to battle a criminal mastermind (played by Angus Scrimm, aka The Tall Man from of "Phantasm") plotting to take over the world. Must see.

this is a good movie if you like over developed women in a chessy b-movie and like all b-movies that I have seen the story line suck but the over developed women gettint naked is worh seeing it. women like raven de-lacroix from russ meyer films and angela aymes the woman in the movie bashlor party at the start of the move getting pic of her child. yes that one. it like a cheesy remake of enter the dragon. instead of bruce lee and other men fight in a tournament for some weird bad guy, you have women doing it.