PREHISTORIC WOMEN (1967)

PREHISTORIC WOMEN is a British fantasy adventure film directed by Michael Carreras, starring Martine Beswick and Michael Latimer.

The jungle guide, David Merchant, while big game hunting, stumbles through a time warp. He encounters a "prehistoric"-type situation, falling lls into a setting in which cavewoman-garbed-bikini-clad blond girls are enslaved by similarly clad dark-haired women, led by the evil Queen Kari, played by Martine Beswick. Men are also enslaved, and kept inside caves. No dinosaurs. There are dancing scenes with the blond slave girls, as well as a dance by Kari as part of her attempt to take David as her lover and offer him part of the throne. He resists her advances, because of her evil ways, and because he fell for the slave girl Saria (Edina Ronay). There is, as might be expected, a rousing climax.
Written and directed by Michael Carreras, Prehistoric Women is technically one of Hammer's weakest efforts. It is a poorly scripted studio-bound movie, using the interior sets of 1966's ONE MILLION YEARS B.C. Nevertheless, it is also one of those rare films that is entertaining simply thanks to its flaws.
The occasional cat-fights, a jungle battle lacking in style, and a silly surprise ending make no sense whatsoever.