Tour of Italy: Sword & Sandal & Sorcery

Devin & James are back in the Den, and the Den is still in Italy! In our second Tour of Italy episode, we are going back to the roots of the Italian genre/cult film era with the SWORD & SANDAL films of the 1950s and 60s, introducing film fans to the hero Hercules for the first time, and giving us our first film of the evening, Mario Bava's colorful HERCULES IN THE HAUNTED WORLD. From there, we move to the SWORD & SORCERY era of the 1980's, where we examine some films that owe an awful lot to Conan the Barbarian and The Beastmaster, starting with Joe D'Amato's ATOR, THE FIGHTING EAGLE, followed closely by Lucio Fulci's CONQUEST, and ending the show (and kind of the entire genre) with Ruggero Deodato's THE BARBARIANS (yes, the one starring the Barbarian Twins)! Join us on our quest! We promise plenty of feats of strength, loincloths, snakes, spiders, naked women, gore, and head bashing.