Apatros Review Ep-0011: Maciste & the Queen of Samar [1964]

AR-0011: This end-period Italian peplum is better known in English international release under the title "Hercules Against the Moon Men" [& later fell victim to the savage robot hecklers at MST3K], even though this film's protagonist isn't Hercules but the native Italian superhero Maciste, a character that was extremely popular during the silent era in the 1910s [but never exported outside of Italy] but then revived during the peplum era [1958-1964]. In this late outing, Maciste comes to the rescue of a kingdom whose narcissistic queen is aiding a race of alien stone robots whose mummified queen needs the blood of human sacrifices to fully come back to life.

A very poor example of Italian peplum & a dumb film, but at least this is relatively watchable for Bad Movie Masochists & causal viewers might want to get inebriated before they tackle this one with the boys...

My Grade: D [Bad]

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