Konterr Brilliant and touching

Doomtomylo a film so unique, intoxicating and bizarre that it not only demands another viewing, but is also forgivable as a satirical comedy where the jokes eventually take the back seat.

StyleSk8r At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

Zlatica One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

Rainey Dawn Kirk Morris is Maciste, one of the Sons of Hercules! Again we have an evil character sacrificing young virgins to a fire god this time and the villain is the the wicked Queen Tenefi! Of course Maciste will come to save the day for the women and restore the throne of Memphis its rightful ruler, Prince Iram.We have the same thing, almost the same story as most of the others of this nature - just different faces and names for the characters. And this version of the same basic story plot is not all that grand.My Mill Creek copy is severely faded, not that that it really matters because it's a terrible film. Easy to see why this one (along with most of the others) fell into the public domain. No need for a restore here.1/10

bkoganbing Maciste Triumphs finds him in ancient Egypt which was more ancient than ancient Greece where these muscle dudes usually operate. It seems as though an evil queen has triumphed over the rightful heir to the throne of Memphis and is keeping her subjects in line with sacrifices to a fire God aka volcano and some black magic tricks of her own.In fact when her soldiers capture Kirk Morris as Maciste she doesn't want him killed, but simply to serve as her slave in all kinds of capacities. One look at him and who could blame the lady, but even her allies think she's behaving badly.When Maciste has to confront the volcano to save his true blue girl friend he has to deal with some creatures that look like they escaped from Dr. Moreau's island. That's the highlight of the film because it sure isn't an original peplum plot.

giuseppe-lippi After Tim Burton's "Ed Wood" resurfaced that dubious genius, some peninsular scandalmongers decided to find the local equivalent to Ed and declared Tanio Boccia (who directs here as Amerigo Anton), Italy's worst filmmaker ever. That's not to be taken without a grain of salt. More than anything else, Boccia/Anton was one of those directors who accepted everything, did not argue with producers, took his projects as just another job and never thought of identifying with them. The results are under everybody's eyes, but it has to be admitted that he would have never thought of a future, let alone international, survival of his modest output thanks to TV, videotapes or DVDs. In the case of "Il trionfo di Maciste", the boyish Kirk Morris (alias Adriano Bellini, a Venetian who also starred in Riccardo Freda's "Maciste all'inferno") is to be admired in the muscular chariots scene at the middle of the film, where he offers such a picture of sweat, fatigue and effort as to become a minor cult classic for voyeurs. Although I'm not a gay person, I can easily picture the enjoyment of this share of the audience before such a sequence. For the rest, a minor and quite slow output without the visual glamor of the best productions.

Skragg I just saw this one yesterday (on one of those big, cheap DVD sets from "Mill Creek" - thank heaven for that company), and I have nearly the opposite opinion of Bryce David (though maybe for pretty flimsy reasons). One thing about this one is that it broke a few "Peplum" clichés. First (unless I missed something), the "sidekick" character (think Ulysses in "Hercules Unchained") had a much smaller role in this one, which is fine with me, since I don't always care much for that stock character. Also, it was just a little surprising to see the Hercules character riding off with the heroine at the end (having the opposite thing happen seems like almost as much of a Peplum tradition as a tradition of earlier westerns). And, I think the actress Liuba Bodina (an actress I know from nothing else, at least by name) knew how to play the "evil queen" role just right. One unusual thing about Kirk Morris is that he always seems to have a "sensitive" look about him, which almost clashes with the general idea of these films. What's more odd about that is that, judging by this one and "Conqueror of Atlantis," his Peplum characters are some of the more ruthless ones, even breaking a (sort of) rule in these films, by having the hero get rid of the femme fatale character pretty directly (usually that happens some other way).