Gunan, King of the Barbarians

Gunan, King of the Barbarians (Italian: Gunan il guerriero) is a 1982 film directed by Franco Prosperi.[1]

Gunan, King of the Barbarians
Directed byFranco Prosperi
Produced byPino Buricchi[1]
Screenplay byPiero Regnoli[1]
Story byPiero Regnoli[1]
Starring
Music byRoberto Pregadio[1]
CinematographyPasquale Fanetti[1]
Production
company
Leader Films[1]
Release date
  • 9 September 1982 (1982-09-09) (Italy)
Running time
80 minutes[1]

Production

Gunan, King of the Barbarians uses footage from One Million Years B.C..[1]

Release

Gunan, King of the Barbarians was released in Italy on 9 September 1982.[1] The film has also been released as The Invincible Barbarian.[2]

As of 2016 the only available copies of Gunan, King of the Barbarians were home made DVDs sold on eBay that are sourced from pan-and-scan transfers from VHS tapes.[3]

Reception

Colin Greenland reviewed The Invincible Barbarian for Imagine magazine, and stated that "What makes this Invincible Barbarian invincible? Probably the fact that everybody he comes up against is even more stupid than he is. See how long you can watch this one without giggling."[4]

From retrospective reviews, the German book Lexicon des Fantasy-Films referred to the film as a rip-off of Conan the Barbarian but "only dumber".[5]

References

Footnotes
  1. Kinnard & Crnkovich 2017, p. 201.
  2. Rushing 2016, p. 186.
  3. Rushing 2016, p. 112.
  4. Greenland, Colin (May 1984). "Fantasy Media". Imagine (review). TSR Hobbies (UK), Ltd. (14): 45.
  5. Hahn, Ronald M.; Jansen, Volker; Stresau, Norbert (1986). Lexikon des Fantasy-Films. München. p. 201.

Sources
  • Kinnard, Roy; Crnkovich, Tony (2017). Italian Sword and Sandal Films, 1908-1990. McFarland. ISBN 1476662916.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  • Rushing, Robert A. (2016). Descended from Hercules: Biopolitics and the Muscled Male Body on Screen. McFarland. ISBN 0253022584.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)


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