This low budge Italian fiasco written & directed by Avi Nesher is an irrational mishmash of fantasy set in a post-holocaust world that if synopsized would make no sense at all & barely has distant parallels to H. Rider Haggard's great fantasy novel of the same title, the film's alleged inspiration inspiring very little.
Supplanting the lost city of Kor there is an evil race of nazi look-alikes called the Norks who live in Norkville which is in Nork Valley. And Nork does seem to be "Dork" misprounounced judging by the performances.
The story includes characters named Tom, Dick & a girl, Hari, I kid you not. Sandahl Bergman in a wooden performance as the Immortal She was obviously chosen because she was so fine at conveying swordfighting prowess in the first Conan movie. Sandahl was a great dancer & in Conan a convincing swordswoman, & at the time this successful role gave her delusions of continuing a quality film career, her dream being to star in a remake of Captain Blood featuring herself as the captain. Well, I would have loved to have seen that! But Sandahl was not young by Hollywood standards when she was in Conan, & that was to remain the height of her success.
Alas, in She, Sandahl is looking a bit haggard as immortals go, though with none of the authority of Haggard's She-Who-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed. In one scene Sandahl does battle in a cave with some guys who jumped out of refrigerator cartons, & Frankenstein was there too.
Obviously intended to be a film so bad & so foolish that it might become a cult classic. To me it seems unlikely to score even on the Golden Turkey Awards level of so bad you gotta see it, but others have been reduced to breathless tears of laughter watching it.
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