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Updated review.  This is one of those sword and sorcery flicks that, as a teenager, defined my taste in films.  The acting is terrible, and the plot is threadbare, but the movie is filled with gratuitous violence and lots of bare bosoms.  Of note:  The beautiful female warrior is Lana Clarkson, who was found dead of a gunshot wound in record producer Phil Spector's house; he is charged with her murder.

Its pretty cool that the guy who played Oghris in this movie played Jason in Friday 3D.

This movie was sensational. In the first five minutes, it had everything that a barbarian movie should: great one-liners, carnal violence, and, of course, boobs. The rest of the movie delivered as well. When the plot was in trouble, they relied on  what could save all poor movies: gratuitous nudity (of the hot female kind). Bravo, this one's a keeper.

This film is everything a bad barbarian movie should be and a bit more. The only movie that tops this is the Deathstalker 2. Which strangely has about 15 minutes of film from the first one spliced in to fill out some fight seens.

I am still trying to find the third film. I saw it in a video store on holiday once.

This movie is one of my "guilty pleasures". Everything about it is cool - Heroic, musclebound Rick Hill, ravishing Barbi Benton,  Rick Hill RAVISHING Barbi Benton... need I say more?

A B-movie that is pretty fun.  This movie is actually more entertaining than recent flicks like Dungeons & Dragons or
Scorpion King; and it was made with a budget that would equal what was used for catering on these current big budget schlockfests.

This is the worst movie i've ever seen!!!

Actually, I think it was a pretty good movie, for the genre.
Halfway decent plot, terrific guy in the lead (Rick Hill), and some of the sweetest wenches I've ever seen! It kinda deteriorated toward the end, but it was fun getting there. Didn't this pic win the Oscar for best picture that year?

I liked the little guy in the tournament scenes, the one who gets brained with the big hammer.

I saw this movie back in the eighties.  It was great. There is really only one reason for this genre of film to exist.  So the producer can cop some off of a playboy playmate of the month or year while promising to make her a star.  And of course we love watching the 'acting' jobs they give these fine ladies.

 Lana Clarkson the star of this was who was murdered in the Specter mansion :*( RIP Lana

This film was great fun I remember the series and I reckon it was far better than the recent Scorpion King movie which owed most of its average moments to Deathstalkers great moments.

One of my favourite bad movies, not a single scene of the movie makes a lick of sense, either alone or in conjunction with the rest of the movie.  I laughed my ass off the entire time.  Deathstalker 4 was better, but this one was still good.  The MST3k of deathstalker 3 was also good.

Ive have just one thing to say:

"Thats my horse"

I love this film! By the way, the barbarian's name is not Deathstalker, it is "Outside, wait for me there." He says so early in the film.

Definitly going to be remembered as a Corman classic.

I don't like the whole story of this movie and the cast. It's boring.

   Not exactly a spectacle on the level of "Conan The Barbarian" or even "Red Sonja", but this is a lively and fun little epic.  The knock-off Morricone score is actually pretty above par and at least there isn't a lot of anachronistic humor and dialogue that mars most Sword & Sandal flicks (no one says "O.K" or "This gives me the creeps" like you hear too often in other productions).  The women are engaging and maintain strong physical credibility, especially Lana Clarkson, who handles a sword quite well and sadly lost her life a few years back for no fault of her own.  Rick Hill and Richard Brooker are very nimble and assured in the battle sequences.  Hill in particular has got to be one of the best-looking men ever to grace the fantasy genre.  He's exactly what you'd imagine the Norse gods Thor or Odin would look like and is certainly deserving of better material.  

I saw Barbarian http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0358376/ (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0358376/) what was edited from Deathstalker. It was awesome!
Boobs+blood=win

Deathstalker had a whole series of movies.  There was a bunch of sequels.  I recall that my wife and I had a whole series of bad movie nights where we went through the whole Deathstalker franchise.  There was a LOT of skull ratings in those movies.

I think the most painful one was Deathstalker II I believe.  There was this REALLY annoying ditzy woman who got paired up with our hero.  First off.  Her acting was more wooden than a redwood forest.  Seccond, and this was the killer, she spent the whole movie pretty much whining "Stalker !! Stalker !!" in this godawful high pitched voice that makes us men cringe and want to stab forks in our ears.

My wife and I both wanted Deathstalker, or the villains, or ANYONE to do ANYTHING to get rid of her in some horrific way.  Every scene we were like, "Please let this be the scene where she gets beheaded, eaten, dismembered, GAGGED, etc..."

John Terlesky should have the deathstalker in all movies. Rick Hill can't hold a candle to Terlesky. Neither can the clown from the third Deathstalker.

Terlesky 4 Life!

Knowing that I like bad movies, my parents picked up a VHS copy of this for me in some charity shop earlier this year. It wasn't until I saw it on here that I realised how much I really ought to watch it, so excuse me while i dust off the video player..  :teddyr:

(looking forward to this)