This costume epic with lots of naked flesh, softcore sex, and special-effects footage of Pompeii being buried in ash makes for one of the silliest sword-and-sandal epics ever to emerge from the Italian peninsula. Berenice (Sybil Danning) is the mistress of the emperor and is vacationing in
sunny Pompeii as the guest of Claudius (Donald Pleasence). There are people falling in love, getting attacked and raped in the woods, engaging in sword-fights and the like, until finally Vesuvius erupts. Danning has little more than a few lines and one expression. Pleasence hams up his role and
seems to be having a good time. This is a pretty worthless item, all in all. If softco...
Released:
1987
Rated:
R
Length:
79 mins