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- Title
- Sorceress
- AKA
- La Spada e la Magia (Italy)
- Year of Film
- 1982
- Director
- Jack Hill
- Starring
- Leigh Harris, Lynette Harris, Bob Nelson, David Millbern, Bruno Rey, Ana De Sade, Roberto Ballesteros
- Type of Poster
- One sheet
- Origin of Poster
- International
- Year of Poster
- 1982
- Designer
- Unknown
- Artist
- Robert Tanenbaum
- Size (inches)
- 27 1/8" x 41"
- SS or DS
- SS
- Tagline
- An epic adventure of swords and sorcery when good and evil clash in the ultimate cosmic struggle!
The last film from Jack Hill (opens in a new tab), the director of several exploitation films such as Foxy Brown (opens in a new tab) and The Swinging Cheerleaders (opens in a new tab), Sorceress (opens in a new tab) was one of several fantasy films released in the wake of Conan the Barbarian (opens in a new tab). It currently sits on a meagre IMDb score of 3.7 out of 10 and sounds like (opens in a new tab) something of a clunker:
Sorceress is bad. Astronomically bad. Not the kind of bad that we’re used to. No, not mediocre Hollywood bad. It’s so bad, it’s almost a religious experience.
To be fair, with a poster like this it’s not like the audience were expecting much, as another reviewer points out:
Tremendously fun if you approach it in the correct frame of mind (and probably even better when one is drunk). Oh, did I happen to mention the beautiful boobies on display in this?
This is the international one sheet featuring artwork by American artist Robert Tanenbaum (opens in a new tab). See the other posters I’ve collected by him.
The US one sheet looks like this (opens in a new tab) and the original trailer is on YouTube (opens in a new tab).
Comments (2)
Wow, total flashback to the old video rental store. In the spirit of the movie itself, the poster is a fairly blatant copy of this Boris piece.
http://www.sci-fi-o-rama.com/wp-content/uploads/boris.jpg
Shit, that’s absolutely shameless! Nowadays I think it would be called a homage.