A Nymphoid Barbarian in Dinosaur Hell

Troma movies, you either love 'em or hate 'em but this is a new low in cinema & has got to be one of the most awful films ever made. A total lack of plot, pace, character, direction, anything. You have really got to admire how individuals with no discernable cinematic talents can somehow con people into letting them make a film. It doesn't even live up to its title, no nymphoid barbarians & no dinosaurs (but I did feel like I was in some kind of hell!).

This could have been a great B-movie in the tradition of the AIP films but even those movies had charm & talent whereas this is devoid of any merit. However, I feel that everyone should watch this. It must be inflicted on people as no mere review can fully express the sheer awfulness of this so-called movie!

But then again should they take anymore of our money! Ignore this & as an alternative maybe try Roger Cormans Teenage Caveman.

I got this when i went on a splatter movie buying binge in a double-pack that cost just over £1, and i still felt robbed!. When i saw it was by Troma my hopes went up a bit, for i had recently watched an episode of "Shock movie massacre" on FTN which was about troma and said they specialised in making gory half-porn trash, but this, well, there was hardly any gore at all, except for when a lizard-man got a hole shot through him with a shotgun, despite the 'nymphoid' title there was no sexual content, aside from the bad guys clumsily falling onto the main character in what i can only assume was supposed to be attempted rape (more like they couldn't see where they where going with those masks on). The 'dinosaurs' don't look like any kind of dinosaur that really existed, but i think they where actually quite well-done, considering this was 1991, when CGI was fantastically expensive. There was even some scenes where the people and monsters where on-screen at the same time..not bad!. In all, this is a bad movie that you should avoid buying, but if you can see it at a friend's house for free, then do so..just don't be afraid to use the fast forward button, there is little dialog so you wont miss "the story"

I bought this due to the cheesy title (a Lloyd Kaufman creation, I imagine) but turns out the film makers tried to make something serious (fair enough) but all I wanted was to see claymation creatures (or dinosaurs, whatever) fighting people. What I got was a wannabe-Dune, with a very boring plot. I would say avoid this to Troma fans, Film fans and fantasy geeks.

AM

I read so many terrible reviews of Brett Piper's Nymphoid Barbarian in Dinosaur Hell. That i was convinced that this movie would be total crap.

On the contrary it is quite a good fantasy film. It wasn't always funny, but the intro Troma added was great, and the claymation creatures were really fun. I'd recommend this to both Troma fans, and films of mid eighties fantasy films like Gor.

The trailer and opening voice-over (which I suspect was tacked-on by Troma after the film's completion) of "A Nymphoid Barbarian in Dinosaur Hell" try to sell this film as a campy comedy, but it's actually a rather serious futuristic / prehistoric adventure. The story and dialogue are minimal; the film is slow and often boring, but the stop-motion animation effects for the various monsters, although dated, still have a nostalgic charm (I'd take them over the clumsy CGI of contemporary B-movies any day of the week), and Linda Corwin is very sexy as the not-so-nymphoid barbarian - she has the lean, muscular physique of a track athlete (perhaps she was one), and she can fight too: in the movie's best scene, she chokes a mutant to death. Shortly after that, there is a fight between a deformed "good guy" and the main villain which is surprisingly long and exhausting. My total grade for this film is 4 stars + 2 extra stars for Linda Corwin = 6 out of 10.