
The son of Torren learns of his heritage, goes to avenge the deaths of his fellow villagers, and rescue his sister/love interest from the evil Dakkar and his spider cult. Ator battles giant spiders, swordsmen cloaked in shadow, re-animated dead warriors, and horribly hideous witches.... (Full plot summary below)
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The son of Torren learns of his heritage, goes to avenge the deaths of his fellow villagers, and rescue his sister/love interest from the evil Dakkar and his spider cult. Ator battles giant spiders, swordsmen cloaked in shadow, re-animated dead warriors, and horribly hideous witches.
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| User ReviewErik LAtor brings to the screen a magic not often seen in modern cinema. The cast has a chemistry that can only be described as "sweaty", but don't worry. It's sweaty in a good way. The goose-hat wearing villian creates an environment of primal fear for our heroes to battle their way through. Invisible warriors, giant snakes, and physics as it is applied to the theory of flight are no match for our heroes! Battle on, Thong! |
| User ReviewShawn WAtor is the son of Torren and destined to end the 1,000 year reign of the Spider dynasty. Ator is a fine warrior but he's not the sharpest guy in the land as he openly wonders why he cannot marry his sister. Sabrina Siani again proves to be a value add. |
| User ReviewPrivate UI was forced to watch this by my BF and, despite my initial protests, was somewhat amused by gratuitous use of fringe and incredibly off key acting. It is definitely better than its sequel but is still one of those movies that is much better when you are too drunk to care that there is no plot. |
| User ReviewKris VDull and uninspired fantasy fare from Joe D'Amato under one of his many pseudonyms. How they managed to make this simple story nigh incomprehensible is beyond me, but I'm still rating two stars: one for Miles O'Keefe's wondrous hair, and one for the incredible talented little bear cub which follows Ator around during his quest. |
| User ReviewMichael TSomewhere out there, there is someone who feels this movie is a classic for the ages. I am not that person. The movie starts with a disembodied voice spouting, rubbish, biblical style prose that give you the impression that our title character was conceived through pollination. This sets the tone for the rest of the movie. We are then subjected to bad acting, bad costumes, bad continuity, bad directing, terrible editing and pointless scenes. Of the pointless scenes, by favourite is when the army of the walking dead suddenly disappears, without having done anything, in the arboretum. |
| User ReviewEric RLet me tell you the days of high adventure! back in 1982 a little sword and sorcery flick called "Conan the Barbarian" opened the flood gates of imitators from all over the world. If you are familiar with cult films and cheap cash-ins then you should know that Italy is the king of imitators and none more blatant of a knock-off than the Joe D'Amato's "Ator the Fighting Eagle", which copies it's American counterpart so closely that it is derogatorily referred to film lovers as "Italian Conan". After having his parents slaughtered, a small baby survives and is given to a peasant family to raise by a warrior to as the child is prophesized to defeat the sadistic and iron fisted ruler known as the "Spider King". When the boy grows to manhood, the day of his wedding to his sister (don't ask!) gets interrupted by the Spider King's warriors who kidnap his bride. Now Ator must rescue is sister.. err... wife and defeat the Spider King while completing little side quests along the way. Being knick-named "Italian Conan" it is safe to assume there are many parallels one can draw between the two films... and there is. Our hero Ator teams up with a sexy blond thief, gets seduced by a witch and his main quest is to rescue a young woman from a cult leader that worships spiders as opposed to snakes. Hell the Spider King is even dubbed by a James Earl Jones sound-a-like! Even with all the blatantly stolen plot points, Ator still has some differences. First is the underdeveloped character of Ator, who is rather naive child compared to the brutal raising of Conan. He is not a thief or a gladiator... he's just a simple peasant trying to rescue his wife that just happens to be his sister... again don't ask. His sidekick is replaced by a bear cub and there are plenty of new side quests in which Ator must battle blind warriors, amazons and even reclaim a magical mirror shield. Like most cheap foreign knock-offs, what hurts the film most is the miniscule budget which affects every aspect of the film. The special effects are deplorable (including a giant spider complete with visible strings lifting it's legs), the costume designs are downright laughable (Miles O'Keeffe and Edmund Purdom sport the fakest wigs this side of Jamie Lee Curtis in "Halloween II") and the cinematography is none existent. Don't get me started on Joe D'Amato's lack of directing (hiding under the pseudonym David Hills) as he proves again with "Ator the Fighting Eagle" that he defines the word 'hack'. "Ator the Fighting Eagle" is not surprisingly an awful "Conan" rip-off but like most Italian imitators it entertains due to unintentional laughter. The un-special effects, dialogue and even the James Bond "For Your Eyes Only" sound-alike song playing over the end credits are sure to get a chuckle out of any B-movie connoisseur. In an amazing turn "Ator" did well enough to inspire even more sequels than the character that 'inspired' it with a total of three: "The Blade Master", "Iron Warrior" and "The Quest for the Might Sword" all of which are far worse than the original which may not seem possible. |
| User ReviewMichael WOne of the worst Fantasy/S&S movies in the history of the planet. It may not give "Plan 9 from Outer Space" a run for its money, but it has its own so-bad-it's-good charm. Miles O'Keeffe plays Atar--as Michael Keaton said in "Night Shift": "Barney Rubble, what an actor." |
| User ReviewCraig CI saw this at a packed dollar theater on a Saturday night and the audience riffed it gloriously, a full decade before MST3K. Not for the comically impaired. |
| User ReviewRichard LThe first of the Ator series. Ator: The Fighting Eagle is a cheesy Italian sword and sorcery film about a young man who bears the mark of the Taurus who is destined to fight of the evil forces in a tribal world. One of the worst fantasy films I've ever seen, it is no wonder the sequels scored an even lower rating. |
| User ReviewDoctor SIncredibly cheap sword & sandal flick where they couldn't even afford the sandal. Nor could they find anyone who could act. Schwarzenegger's Conan the Barbarian came out in May of 1982 and it took Joe D'Amato less than five months to assemble this ripoff trash. |