Review of Eyes Of The Serpent (1994 Film):

This is just a lower budget Deathstalker type movie from 1993. I rented every movie of this type back then. It is ok if one understands that it is a B grade sword & sorcery movie, kind of unintentionally funny at times. I’m happy enough to have the VHS tape

Good bits: There are some semi-unexpected plot twists, although sometimes they’re surprising more for the lack of any backstory to fill them in, and they often don’t go anywhere. The guy playing the adviser to the queen, Seamus (inexplicably pronounced See-mus) at least tries to act. The swordfights, though semi-stilted, end with actual blood on the swords, which I always appreciate, since so many movies fail at that. The men are strong, the women nubile, the costumes OK. I liked the lady who could smell anything, too, and wished she’d actually done something in the movie. The two tortured guards were kinda funny, too. Some of the writing is passable/OK, though often it’s lost in delivery or just in confusion. The oddly-apostrophed Ernst May’r does OK, too.

Bad bits: The dialogue. The acting. The direction. The cinematography. The DVD transfer. The S&M costumes. Lots of masks, so they can reuse the warrior guys even after they die. In fact, often they show three guys running the woods, and then six end up dying in the battle.

I should also add that this was originally released on VHS in two versions. There was an R rated cut and an Unrated cut. The Unrated version has about one minute more footage of Elizabeth Carlton’s sex scene. The DVD put out by Simitar in 1997 was the R rated cut.