Il mondo di Yor

Italian director Antonio Margheriti never missed any exploitative subgenre that could be invented. Nor was he shy about combining several of them together. So why not use costumes and props from older sci-fi and post-apocalyptic films in a prehistoric adventure film. This amusingly nonsensical cross between Conan and Flash Gordon is a 90-minute version of an originally four-hour Italian-Turkish miniseries. Apparently because of this, it literally rockets along at a breakneck pace and there's hardly a dead spot in it. It's so packed to bursting with wonderfully absurd moments, featuring barbarians with blown-out wigs, papier-mâché dinosaurs in every conceivable guise, villains in furry monkey costumes, mummies, androids, spaceships and, of course, the flawlessly stupid Golden Raspberry Award-winning disco theme song. (2015.01.16)