Barbarian Queen (1985)

The late Lana Clarkson’s signature role. Her Amazon proportions are perfect for leather tunics and loincloths. In days of yore, she lives in one of those peaceful villages that all but begs to be massacred by thugs because that’s what always happens in these movies. Lana manages to get away, along with some other ladies who are good with arrows and swords, and immediately heads out for revenge. When she’s not killing scumbags, Lana’s either naked or chained up (or naked and chained at the same time). Every good B-movie needs at least one scene that makes you almost choke on your popcorn and there’s a classic here. I don’t want to give away too much, but let’s just say that a chained-up Lana here defeats a rapist with the kind of muscles that demonstrate how truly comprehensive a barbarian girl’s exercise program must have been. This is a pretty good sword-and-sandal-sleaze job, and only about seventy minutes long.