Red Sonja

The tyrant Gedren seeks the total power in a world of barbarism. She raids the city Hablac and kills…

• Director: Richard Fleischer
• Genre:Action / Adventure / Fantasy
• Runtime:89 minutes

Cast

Arnold Schwarzenegger: Kalidor
Brigitte Nielsen: Red Sonja
Sandahl Bergman : Queen Gedren
Paul L. Smith : Falkon (as Paul Smith)
Ernie Reyes Jr. : Prince Tarn

The movie begins with Red Sonja’s brother and their parents being slaughtered by the evil Queen Gedren’s (Sandahl Bergman) army because Sonja rejected the Queen’s sexual advances. Sonja survives being violently raped by Gedren’s troops, and even gives Gedren a kind of a souvenir: a brutal scar on the evil queen’s face. Later that night, Sonja is visited by a spirit who grants her the strength to seek her revenge.

The story then jumps to a large temple full of white-robed priestesses. They are getting ready to destroy a large, glowing green orb called the Talisman. This dangerous artifact’s destructive power increases from exposure to light and the priestesses intend to destroy it before it gets out of control. However, Gedren – now wearing a gold mask to cover her scar – and her aide-de-camp Ikol (Ronald Lacey) attack with their army. The warrior-priestesses resist, but are ultimately subdued by Gedren’s forces.

Gedren gets her hands on the Talisman, but not before proving the myth that only women can touch it and survive. Gedren orders the remaining priestesses to be imprisoned in the vault which held the Talisman. One of those priestesses, Varna, manages to escape. She doesn’t get far before she’s mortally wounded by an arrow in the back. As luck would have it, she literally falls into the arms of the mighty Lord Kalidor (Arnold Schwarzenegger). She begs him to help find her sister, Red Sonja.

Sonja has been training with a Chinese swordmaster (Tad Horino) when Kalidor informs Sonja about her sister. Sonja arrives just in time for Varna to tell her about what happened at the temple. Before dying, Sonja’s sister urges her to find the Talisman and destroy it, or else the world will be shattered with storms and earthquakes. Sonja cremates Varna’s body on a funeral pyre, and then begins her journey to Berkubane, Gedren’s Kingdom of Eternal Night. Read more

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