Hundra (1983)

Sword fights and separatist feminism in the ancient fantasy world. This is about Hundra, warrior woman extraordinaire. She’s strong, she’s blonde, and her long and lean body looks amazing in her belly-baring mini-tunic. Her man-hating all-female tribe get slaughtered by a group of male thugs in the first five minutes of the film and now Hundra needs to go out and stab or beat up almost every man in the movie.

Actually, what she really wants is to get pregnant so she can a) start the tribe over again and b) not copy Conan the Barbarian. On her search for a suitable sperm dispenser, Hundra ends up having to kick everybody’s ass in a town where the ruler regularly forces local women to become sex slaves.

It’s a low-budget flick covered in more cheese than a deep dish pizza, but they did manage to get Ennio Morricone to compose a charging music score. It also has a good sense of humor, though the funniest parts of the movie are the ridiculous slow-motion fight scenes. All in all, it’s one of the stranger items in the avalanche of loincloth action epics in the 1980s.