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Evil Morak (Harrison Muller jr), a literal devil's spawn, wants to
usurp the legendary throne of fire, because ... well, not sure, because
Morak has no problems eliminating the current heir to the throne and gain
control over his Kingdom, but to sit on the throne, he has to be the
rightful heir, too (otherwise the throne would burn him to death - thus
throne of fire). Thus Morak figures he has to marry the old king's
daughter Valkari (Sabrina Siani), which is easier said than done, as
Valkari is hiding out somewhere, but if Morak doesn't manage to sit on the
throne exactly through the next solar eclipse, the throne will become,
erm, unsitable I suppose. Now eventually, Morak's man manage to track
down Valkari, but once faced with the chance to marry Morak, she turns out
to be rather on the reluctant side. Muscleman Siegfried (Peter McCoy)
comes to her rescue, but to be honest proves to be a bit on the useless
side, so he is soon thrown into the "Well of Madness", which he
not only survives though, he also finds his father there and gets the
gifts of temporary invisibility and invulnerability until touched by fire
from him. Siegried makes it to Valkari's quarters while invisible, but as
soon as Morak learns he's allergic to fire, he shoots Siegfried with a
burning arrow, then chains him into an inescapable death trap. Valkari
meanwhile proves she's by no means without means and makes good an escape
on her own ... upon which Morak gives Siegfried a chance to escape just to
lead him to her - it works, too. This time, with the solar eclipse
looming, Morak makes sure Valkari will marry him and hypnotizes her (why
he hasn't done so earlier is at anybody's guess, and puts Siegfried into
another death trap, which is bound to fail ... so ultimately, the wedding
is never finalized (also because the priest is a slowpoke), Siegfried
frees himself and bests Morak's men, then sits him down on the throne of
fire unmarried, and ... well the baddie and the throne go up in flames ... In
pretty much every way, The Throne of Fire is your typical Italian
sword and sorcery movie in the wake of Conan the Barbarian: The plot is
simplistic to the hilt and doesn't always make sense, it features a
musceleman in the lead, eye candy Sabrina Siani (no stranger to the genre)
wearing very little (though no actual nudity in this one), wooden acting
from all involved, and a general cheapness to it all. What's funny is
that this one is somehow based on the old Germanic legend of Siegfried
and the Nibelungen, but really touches only the utmost
surface of it - a hero in (supposedly) medieval times (just judging from
some of the locations and costumes here) with the powers of invisibility
and invulnerability, plus the name of the heroine Valkaria sounds a little
like Valkyrie ... but that's pretty much where the similarities end. In
all, by no means a good movie no matter what the definition, but you might
get a decent kick out of it if you're into trashy 1980's style barbarian
entertainment, in a so-bad-it's-good-way - though there are worse/better
movies of its ilk out there ...
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