Stormquest

My review was written in November 1988 after watching the movie on Media Home Entertainment video cassette.

"Stormquest" is an enjoyable fantasy feature lensed in Argentina that Philip Wylie might have enjoyed: the women battling the men.

"Unlike Wylie's classic novel (yet to be filmed) "The Disappearance", in which men and women are split off in separate societies, here momism is carried to the nth degrees women have subjugated men. In the kingdom of Ishtan, men are either studs or drones, while neighboring kingdom Kimbia has dispensed with men altogether (the femmes go hunting elsewhere for an unwary male when procreation requires a sperm donation).

Statuesque Kai Baker stars as a woman of Kimbia condemned to death when she rescues her sister Christina Whitaker from execution for having romanced and protected a man. Duo and their black sorceress pal Dudizile Mkhize team up with he-man Brent Huff and help him in his male revolt for equality in Ishtan.

Pic sports good action scenes and its trump card is extensive footage of vast waterfalls located in Argentina. Black humor and comic relief (some of it in rather poor taste) is provided energetically by Linda Lutz as Ishtan's chubby, kinky Stormqueen, who is revealed to be something else again at pic's climax.

Huff, convincing in these roles ever since "Perils of Gwendoline", and the beauteous babes acquit themselves well and the supporting cast is adequately dubbed into English. Pic fits neatly as a companion piece to helmer Alex (Alejandro) Sessa's previous effort "Amazons" with a village set familiar from earlier Aries and Concorde fantasies shot in Argentina.