Deathstalker (1983)

Top loincloth action trash full of muscleheads with magic swords and women who are always getting themselves naked and in chains. It doesn’t even try to make sense, bless its heart. The plot plays fifth or sixth fiddle to the breasts, slave girls in thong back outfits, hammer violence, bondage and musky machismo. Part of this film’s appeal on cable TV in the 80s was that you could channel surf right into the middle of this story of a hulking hero who squares off against an evil wizard with a spider tattooed on his head and comprehend just as much as someone who’d been watching it from the beginning. All of the nudity didn’t hurt, either. And hopefully, you at least caught the great scene where the wizard temporarily transforms one of his male flunkies into the very female Barbi Benton (for the purposes of disguise), while the guy anxiously reacts to his various new and disappearing body parts. Meanwhile, towering blonde beauty Lana Clarkson, memorable in a small role here as a buxom warrior woman who goes topless like it’s nothing, so impressed the producers that they shortly after cast her as the lead in a similar movie, Barbarian Queen.