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Somewhere in fantasy land: Evil witch Phaedra (Elisabeth Kaza) kidnaps young Trogar (Conrad Borg), twin brother of Ator (Malcolm Borg), and even when threatened with 18 years of imprisonment she refuses to return the boy. During her 18 years locked away, the realm thrives under its rightful king (Tim Lane), but once released, she shows up at Princess Janna (Savina Gersak) birthday party to kill the royal family with the help of Trogar (now played by Franco Daddi), whom she has trained into an iron-masked killing machine, and take over the realm. Only Princess Janna manages to escape with the help of Ator (now played by Miles O'Keeffe), and telepathically led by benign Deeva (Iris Peynado), they learn how to defeat Phaedra, which has to do with a magic chest, the quest for which leads them through half the realm and has them face many threats, including several run-ins with Trogar. But ultimately they find the chest - but unfortunately, Phaedra has one more ace up her sleeve ...

Obviously a cash-in on the by then already waning sword-and-sorcery wave of movies, and especially on Joe D'Amato's Ator movies - even if the film has nothing to do with them narratively - Iron Warrior in a way is everything you'd expect from a movie of its ilk, and from the low budget end of things: The scale of the story is never matched by what's put on film, the action scenes are not as excitingly executed as they should be, the story's simplistic, the characters paper-thin, the acting at best uneven (though Elisabeth Kaza does a pretty good job as the main villain), and the props and costumes too often clearly look like plastic.

And all that said, Iron Warrior is actually a quite unusual sword and sorcery movie, as it for the most part looks pretty good, also thanks to the impressive Maltese locations, including many breath-taking ruins, director Alfonso Brescia goes for an often minimalist style to go in line with the movie's moderate budget, and there's a definite existentialist vibe to the film not usually found in movies of its kind. Now all of this doesn't make Iron Warrior an especially great movie, but a very interesting and unfortunately under-appreciated footnote to the genre.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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