Product Details

• Actors: Martine Beswick, Edina Ronay, Michael Latimer, Stephanie Randall, Carol White
• Directors: Michael Carreras
• Writers: Michael Carreras
• Producers: Michael Carreras, Aida Young
• Format: Color, Letterboxed, Original recording remastered, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay
• VHS Release Date: April 6, 1999
• Run Time: 90 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 0764004689
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #332,004 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

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Deep in the African jungle, great white hunter David Marchant (Michael Latimer) discovers a secret Amazon society where blondes don't have more fun. Captured after trespassing on the sacred grounds of a dangerous tribe of albino-rhino worshippers, he escapes execution by entering a hidden land where women in fur bikinis have enslaved the men, and the brunettes are served by subservient (and quite buxom) blonde slaves. Naturally David falls for cleavage-endowed Saria (Edina Ronay), who believes he is their legendary savior, while the vicious, dark Queen Kari (Martine Beswick) decides to make him her own personal servant to cater to her... every need. Director-producer Michael Carreras (who also wrote the film under the pseudonym "Henry Younger") reused leftover sets from One Million Years B.C. and never leaves the confines of the studio for this campy bit of jungle-woman cheese, which threatens to become overwhelmed by its claustrophobic atmosphere. We get tribal "hoochie-koochie" dances, a Vegas floor show by the blondes, sacrifices to the "devils of the darkness" (with such regularity you have to wonder how they haven't run out of candidates), and Queen Kari takes a milk bath à la Cleopatra. Beswick is the only performer who hits the right note of overheated melodrama; the other cast members seem to be taking this goofy claptrap far more seriously than it deserves. Beware the white rhinoceros! --Sean Axmaker

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Defines "camp classic", February 16, 2003

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Howard Sauertieg "Howard Sauertieg" (Harrisburg, PA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Prehistoric Women [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Rhino-worshipping jungle brunettes dominate hapless jungle blondes who strive to be free in this fantastic nonsense-movie. For a film with such a simple dynamic, there are a surprising number of diversions from the main plot. These are very entertaining (dances, weddings, catfights) although they're obviously filler, padding out the film to feature length with eye candy. Definitely a late-night or rainy Saturday afternoon feature.

Some reviewers have said that "Prehistoric Women" is missing 16 minutes of footage, but that's incorrect! Actually "Prehistoric Women" is the American version that runs 16 minutes longer (90 minutes) than the 74-minute British release, titled "Slave Girls." THIS IS THE U.S. RELEASE - THE LONG VERSION. Thanks Anchor Bay!

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Slave Girls of the White Rhino!, July 20, 2002

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Brian C. Davis (Milwaukee) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Prehistoric Women [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Not to be confused with a low-rent American movie of the same name made in 1950, Prehistoric Women was written and directed by Hammer producer Michael Carreras in 1966, on redressed sets left over from Hammer's One Million BC.
Definitely an excuse to find a way to reuse the sets, and no dinosaurs this time around, but the film is so outrageously, unapologetically campy that it's complete bliss.

Terminally sincere great white hunter David touches the sacred horn of the statue of the White Rhino while in Africa, and is transported back in time, where he discovers a tribe of White Rhino-worshipping brunettes, who have enslaved all the blonde women, and sent all the men to an even worse fate doing hard labor.

Martine Beswick is just great as the evil and cruel queen Kari, who chooses David for her love slave. Unfortunatly, David has eyes for innocent blonde slave girl Saria, and....

This flick has everything, wildly loopy Amazon dance numbers, sacficial rituals, catfights, jungle action, babes in fur bikinis, outrageous dialog ("Cruelty is what makes me cruel!"), and a climax where the White Rhino comes to life (who cares if it moves like it's rolling on wheels....besides, no real rhino could have such an wonderfully phallic horn). Beswick puts a lot more into the role of Queen Kari than one would expect from this sort of movie--she definitely has more commanding presence (in more ways than one) than Raquel Welch, for example.

It's obvious director Carraras didn't take any of it with an ounce of seriousness, even though it's all played as though it is. His original working title was "Slave Girls of the White Rhino", which I think is a much better title than Prehistoric Women. Still, a sheer, delerious delight.

Anchor Bay's letterbox transfer is great (and is featured on the VHS tape as well as the DVD). The letterboxing is vital for this flick, since for some reason Carreras decided to go against typical Hammer practice and do this one in genuine widescreen Cinemascope....probably because you can fit a lot more prehistoric babes in one shot that way.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars I had dreams in puberty just like this!, March 13, 2000

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Nicholas B. Stewart (Victoria, TX United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Prehistoric Women [VHS] (VHS Tape)

All right, We can tell this isn't going to be an award winner just by looking at the title. Prehistoric Women (AKA The Slave Girls) is a bit of mindless candy that lets us look at busty blondes/brunettes in what we guys like to consider their natural habitat. A big game hunter/guide David Merchant (Michael Latimer)is captured by some tribal misfits and is taken to the temple of the white rhino (plaster statue) there, something kooky happens and the native guys freeze when the wall of the temple splits, and Merchant is introduced to a new world where the dark haired women are in control, the blonde women serve them and are sacrificed to the white rhino, and the men are forced to work the mines or something.....See! I told you it was just like puberty! Anyway, the evil Queen Kari(Martine Beswick) is every mans ideal ex-wife, as she tries to force Merchant to be her man. Merchant can't force himself to love her because he is smitten with the beautiful blonde slave girl Saria. The battle begins. Don't forget to watch the trailers at the end. Relive the excitement of being a kid again.