XoWizIama Excellent adaptation.

Plustown A lot of perfectly good film show their cards early, establish a unique premise and let the audience explore a topic at a leisurely pace, without much in terms of surprise. this film is not one of those films.

Tayloriona Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

Allison Davies The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

mrb1980 I'm not really sure what the filmmakers were thinking when they made "Prehistoric Women". Was it a latter-day male fantasy movie? Was it intended as a feminist drama? Did the screenwriter like brunettes more than blondes? Whatever the motivation, you really must watch the film to believe what I'm about to write. A great white hunter in Africa (David, played by Michael Latimer) gets lost and blunders into a female civilization in which brunettes have enslaved blondes. I mean, they really have. The brunette queen Kari is none other than Martine Beswick. When David rejects her advances, he's thrown into a dungeon with enslaved and shackled males who perform menial chores. While there, David meets an old slave (Dido Plumb) who shows him the ropes while being mercilessly beaten by sadistic male guards. There are lots of ceremonial native dances, a bizarre marriage ritual involving a white rhinoceros, and much inane dialogue before the men are fed up and finally decide to revolt. After much cartoonish violence (none of it very convincing) the evil queen is impaled on the white rhino's horn, after which David eventually returns to his hunting party and experiences a very predictable twist ending.The interactions between Latimer and Beswick, and especially between Latimer and Plumb are the highlights of the movie. Some of the most laughable scenes ever committed to film occur in the dungeon and during the female tribe's rituals. One of the best lines: David (after watching a dungeon guard beat the old slave): "He hates you! Why?" Old slave: "The man he used to hate died last week." The scene in which the old slave's shackles are removed after 50 years are especially amusing, since Plumb asks "Are we free?" several times before dropping dead. It's impossible not to laugh when you hear dialogue like that.Depending on your taste for bad cinema, "Prehistoric Women" will either leave you shaking your head or make you laugh during the entire movie. I laughed like a hyena, and I think you will too.

Ed-Shullivan I was not impressed. I enjoy Amazon themed films and what guy doesn't enjoy watching dozens of nubile young blondes dancing around a campfire? But in this case the film lacks any substance whatsoever. The lead character is a guy named David (Michael Latimer) who is supposed to be an African big game hunter but instead he is the one who gets caught by a tribe of hot lusty women.So boy meets girl, or should I say boy meets two girls. One blonde slave girl, and one brunette princess who wants to shag our male hero David. There is absolutely no good action or thriller scenes in this film. I thought the amount of time wasted on a variety of tribal dance scenes that went on way too long wasted almost one third of the entire film which made the film even more boring if that was even possible.I give it a higher than deserved 3 out of 10 rating because of the blonde slave girls who were hot and abundant, but other than that you could get the same thrill out of scanning through a few pages of some old National Geographic magazines.

Red-Barracuda This fantasy-adventure film from Hammer Studios was made with the full intention of it being of a similar mould to their big hit from the previous year, the iconic Raquel Welch fur bikini extravaganza One Million Years B.C. Both films share the major production value of having lots of skimpily costumed hot women in a prehistoric setting. In this one, a game hunter on an expedition in Africa ends up going through a time vortex or something and winds up in a mysterious land ruled by scantily clad brunette women, who lord over their blonde equivalents as well as a bunch of hapless males. The set-up is wilfully absurd and is simply a means to delivering the requisite eye candy and surf the One Million Years B.C. popularity wave.This one stars Martine Beswick as the evil Queen Kari. She also featured in the aforementioned Raquel Welch vehicle and also had a striking role in Hammer's later Dr Jekyll & Sister Hyde (1971). She's certainly one of the best things about this movie; by contrast the male lead was extremely lifeless by comparison and merely took us from A to B. But, while this is a silly film in many ways I can't say this bothered me very much as the sub-genre it belongs to is hardly one based around reality, after all One Million Years B.C. features humans battling dinosaurs and cave girls adorned with beauty products and expensive haircuts. So really, can it honestly be any surprise that the events depicted in Prehistoric Women are kind of silly? This is a fantasy pure and simple. It even seems to revolve around a legend of a white rhinoceros (on wheels), so you know you are in for some comforting nonsense with this one from early on. Like Hammer films in general there has been some definite care taken with it though and, while it is modestly budgeted, it is nice to look at. In the final analysis, this is a fun example of what can best be described as the savage girl sub-genre.

antiparticleboard I have had this movie for awhile, watched it a couple of times and was not overwhelmed. I wasn't even 'whelmed. It just seemed prosaic. Watched it again tonight and WOW this is a very complicated movie with undercurrent plots of sexual equality, racial equality and the perceptions of those involved. As a viewer we see those perceptions reversed and twisted around. Carreras even threw in a bit about our cruelty to animals and the guilt of the main character who hunts them. This character, and actor for that matter, seem at first very one dimensional, but both have as many facets as a hunk of cheap zirconia and while zirconia may not have as many facets as a compressed chunk of coal it will still fool a cheap whore. The best part of this movie is that as a whole there is not a bit of condescension in the dialog or the characters. If you don't believe any of the malarkey I wrote it also has phallic symbols galore(if you into that funny stuff), a bond girl(if your into that funny stuff) and an antelope with no pants.