Identify this movie from the 80s

Here’s what I remember:

Fantasy or maybe a bit of horror, with a medieval setting. I recall it being a hard R with lots of bloody violence. At the climax, the villain (a high priest or maybe a prince?) is revealed to be a demonic figure, and the hero kills him with some magical double-bladed sword (the blades are side by side or something weird like that).

That’s about all I remember. As a kid I vaguely recall being a bit traumatized by it.

The Sword And The Sorcerer.

It’s a three bladed sword instead of two, but yeah, I’d have to say The Sword And The Sorcerer as well.

I’ll guess CONAN, just to be different

That’s it! Thanks.

It’s free on Amazon Prime right now, at least the Rifftrax version.

I remember the princess being very, uh, lunchable. :cool:

Ebertgives it half a star.

It’s like he keeps blurting stuff out before walking it back: the movie “sure looks great,” he says. “To give credit where it’s due,” he says, and then spends some time talking up the 007-gadget-esque sword before granting that the sorcerer “is a triumph of makeup” and that the heroine “behaves more intelligently than the usual” — all just to admit that “I sort of enjoy medieval swashbucklers. It’s just that there are only so many variations you can play on muscles and broadswords, lusty heroes and busty heroines, bearded kings, bizarre panoply, and that old standby, the storming of the citadel.”

I mean, given those parameters, figure it earned at least one star, yeah?

Oh this movie, with the miscast TV star Lee Horsley. Really an awful movie, but full credit for the moment when the protagonist is talking to a sexy woman, the table lifts slightly, and he says “my sword is poised!”

I was going to suggest The Golden Child, except it wasn’t exactly a medieval setting…

Ah, the things you discover when you go down an internet rabbit hole…

Yep, that be her. Never heard of that pilot…gee, wonder why… :rolleyes:

The Sword and the Sorcerer seemed to borrow specifically from a couple of Conan stories, as I recall, oddly enough.