SLAVE GIRLS (aka PREHISTORIC WOMEN) is undoubtedly one of the worst of all the Hammer Films productions; it's a cheap, cheerful, inordinately cheesy outing that sees a rugged adventurer hero captured by a tribe of savage warrior women who proceed to torture him until he manages to lead a slave revolt against them.
I was most surprised to find out that this is the film that CARRY ON UP THE JUNGLE spoofs so well, memorably featuring Valerie Leon in much the same role as Martine Beswick here. The spoof is much funnier than this supposedly serious original. SLAVE GIRLS suffers from endless padding in terms of choreographed dance routines and native chanting, plus some absolutely awful special effects, from rubbery jungle plantation to a rhino attack at the climax which sees the rhino rolling along on a trolley.
Sure, the film boasts plenty of attractive starlets in their fur bikinis (in a bid to attract male attention after the success of Raquel Welch in ONE MILLION YEARS B.C., no doubt) but the acting is very poor and the script even worse. You do have to wonder what they were thinking; this feels more like a cheap Monogram programmer of the 1940s than a colourful Hammer romp as it should have been.
I was most surprised to find out that this is the film that CARRY ON UP THE JUNGLE spoofs so well, memorably featuring Valerie Leon in much the same role as Martine Beswick here. The spoof is much funnier than this supposedly serious original. SLAVE GIRLS suffers from endless padding in terms of choreographed dance routines and native chanting, plus some absolutely awful special effects, from rubbery jungle plantation to a rhino attack at the climax which sees the rhino rolling along on a trolley.
Sure, the film boasts plenty of attractive starlets in their fur bikinis (in a bid to attract male attention after the success of Raquel Welch in ONE MILLION YEARS B.C., no doubt) but the acting is very poor and the script even worse. You do have to wonder what they were thinking; this feels more like a cheap Monogram programmer of the 1940s than a colourful Hammer romp as it should have been.