(1964, Upgraded 3/3/24) Reg Park, Wandisa Guida, Eleonora Bianchi, Bruno Scipioni. Maciste is pitted against the evil Queen Fazira, who—by using to magic—has Maciste's willpower destroyed. He’s then made a slave, laboring in an African mine.  When he's finally...

(1962, aka THE AVENGER) Steve Reeves, Giacomo Rossi-Stuart, Carla Marlier, Mario Ferrari. Reeves, the epitome of the perfect sword and sandal hero, plays the rugged Aeneas, who becomes involved with

(1963, upgraded 5/27/24) Mark Forest, Marilu Tolo, Elisabeth Fanty, Robert Hundar, Giuseppe Addobbati. Poseidon (aka Maciste) finds himself fighting for his life against a ruthless Caesar of Tome.  Later he is also pitted against a weird...

(1962) Kirk Morris, Helen Chanel, Vera Silenti, Angelo Zanolli. Disc one is the original 88-minute windowboxed widescreen Italian version of Maciste in Hell in beautiful color with English subtitles. Disc two features the shorter American version...

(1964) Richard Harrison, Moira Orfei, Piero Lulli, Giuliano Gemma. Lulli plays an insane Roman Emperor who is both paranoid and bloodthirsty, which is obviously not a good combin

(1962, Upgraded 10-19-21) Jeanne Crain, Vincent Price, Edmund Purdom. A fine epic—overlooked for years. Crain, as Nefertite, is desired by Purdom, who is imprisoned by an evil high priest, played brilliantly by Price.  She weds the Pharaoh and after his death...

(1962) Lang Jeffries, Rossana Podesta, Philippe Leroy, Gabriele Tinti. This is a taut thriller about the cruelty of a Roman Tribune who subjects the citizens in his province to muc

(1964) Reg Park, Mireille Granelli, Furio Meniconi, Ettore Manni.  Hercules has a life and death battle with a horrible monster and comes away badly injured.  Before long he’s pitted against and evil witch, who has occasion to change men into snarling...

(1960) Anastasio Campoy, Juan Cortes, Alfonso de la Vega, Margarita Laos. Prophesied to bring great trouble to the throne, a royal Prince (at birth) is imprisoned by his father the King. Thirty yea

(1963, Upgraded 3/19/24) Carl Mohner, Loredana Nusciak, Ida Galli, Andrea Aureli, directed by Antonio Margheriti. It is the days after the death of Constantine. The empire has split into East and West. Bigotry against Christians has run rampant again.  Mohner plays a Roman tribune, also a Christian, who flees because...

(1964) Steve Reeves, Jacqueline Sassard, Mimmo Palmara. This action-packed Reeves epic was filmed in Singapore. Reeves reprises his role as Sandokan, a Malaysian rebel who takes on a corrupt British...

(1961) Kirk Morris, Cathia Caro Cesare Fantoni. Italian born Morris as the 'son', is put to the test. There's an evil queen causing mayhem.  It seems she has a propensity for sacrificing beautiful young women to the God of Fire, who resides within the "Mountain of Thunder."  Maciste enters the scene and tries to save the day...

(1964) Richard Lloyd, Anthony Steffen, Tony Freeman, Claudia Lange, Ursula Davis. After a cave-in at an excavation site, a cave is discovered by the brothers Maciste and their pal, the Prince. The cave leads to a...

(1962) Roger Browne, Jackie Lane, Massimo Serato, Linda Sini. Browne is the Roman god, Mars, who saves a city besieged by vicious warriors.  From the city is the beautiful Daphne, whom Mars goes ga-ga over; so he stays on Earth as a mortal, having “fun" with Daphne.  He also has three lightning bolts in his arsenal, courtesy of Jupiter, his dad...

(1962, aka MACISTE AGAINST THE MONSTERS) Reg Lewis, Margaret Lee, Luciano Marin.  Before they changed his name to Maxxus for a Son of Hercules film, this movie was about Maciste, who stumbles upon two warring tribes: Sun worshipers and Moon worshipers. He saves the Sun worshipper’s leader from a monster and falls for lusty Margaret Lee, who’s taken by the Moon worshipers...  

(1963) Pierre Brice, Daniele Vargas, Hélène Chanel, Massimo Serato, directed by Umberto Lenzi.  This great Euro-adventure thriller is set in 17^th Century Spain. A mysterious masked daredevil sets out to defend the local citizens from their evil ruler, who just happens to be the daredevil’s stepfather.