Conquest

On the heals of Conan the Barbarian and the sword and sorcery craze of the 1970's and early 1980's, the Italian maestro of gore, Lucio Fulci, decided to throw his two-cents into the pot. Word of advice: don't eat salsa while watching this because the human entrails look similar to salsa, and if you're eating it, you might end up with some unnatural associations. This is low-budget, b-fantasy at its finest (for whatever that's worth). It's the kind of film where they save money on wardrobe by not giving any to the female participants. It has its share of gore, like when this guy gets ripped in half from the groin up. The film is shot with some kind of haze filter so it always looks foggy -- perhaps to make it looks dream-like? And it has one of those great, pulsing synth scores that lets you know exactly the kind of film you're watching. Yeah, it's cheese and camp, but with a distinctly Italian sense of style.