#The New Barbarians

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Lookin' Pretty Sharp At The End of The World: Anna Kanakis and Fred Williamson sporting the hottest Spaghetti Apocalypse fashions in 1983's "Warriors of The Apocalypse."

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E. Sciotti, The New Barbarians.

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The New Barbarians / I nuovi barbari (1983) Directed by Enzo G. Castellari

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The New Barbarians tour , 1979 photos by Janet Macoska

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𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔑𝔢𝔴 𝔅𝔞𝔯𝔟𝔞𝔯𝔦𝔞𝔫𝔰 𝔭𝔬𝔰𝔱𝔢𝔯 յգՑՅ, 𝔞𝔯𝔱 𝔟𝔶 𝔈𝔫𝔷𝔬 𝔖𝔠𝔦𝔬𝔱𝔱𝔦

[rolloroberson]

Happiest of birthdays to a great guitarist who’s been a seminal part of rock history…Ronnie Wood. Ronnie’s career has gone from the Roosters, Jeff Beck Group, Small Faces, the Faces, The Rolling Stones and his own solo efforts. Happy 76th!!

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Please do a moodboard for Ronnie Wood?🎸❤️

Classic rock guitarist moodboard:

Ronnie Wood

A little Ronnie for you, enjoy :) 🧡

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Put On Your Raincoats | The New Barbarians (Pachard, 1990)

I'd been watching a bunch of '80s sword and sandal movies recently, and while the quality of them has certainly varied, they've been consistent enough in delivering a handful of pleasures, namely charmingly low rent sets, crude violence and a reliable amount of nudity. I'd had this one on my Letterboxd watchlist for quite some time, and figured, while I'm watching the mainstream versions of these things, I might as well get around to the pornographic take on the same material. I figured that the sets would be cheaper, the violence less graphic, and the sex more so. You've got a veteran director, a number of stars who I've enjoyed elsewhere, and looking at the listed runtime of around eighty minutes, I figured this would be a breezy enough watch. Unfortunately, as I neared the end of those eighty minutes, I'd realized that we were in for a cliffhanger ending, and this was a two-parter with a total runtime of over two and a half hours. The maximum ninety minute runtimes of the Golden Age were a thing of the past. We are firmly in the video era, when these things started getting longer and longer, and runtimes that would steer one away even with a mainstream movie were becoming the norm.

So by the end of this, I was maybe a bit over it, in large part because it ended up being twice the time commitment I was expecting. But I must note that the runtime isn't purely driven by extending the sex scenes, but actual plot. Despite the pornographic elements, this actually commits to the sword and sandal fantasy story and treats it with a straight face. There is comic relief (chiefly from Joey Silvera and Nina Hartley as two modern day characters transported to barbarian times, the former of whom loses his pants and the latter of whom teaches a barbarian to play the drums), but not such that it undermines the premise. It also helps that in Sharon Kane and Randies West and Spears, you have some pretty good actors who treat the material with a certain amount of commitment and help prop up the shakier performance of Victoria Paris in the lead role. (Spears is especially enjoyable as the teeth gnashing villain, who marvels that "there's magic all around us!", referring of course to Magic Johnson as he watches a basketball game on TV.) While I can't say this makes a case for her as a great actress, she is likable, and her deer in the headlights, mouth agape look serves her character well (and emphasizes her rather fetching overbite). Between them, as well as an empathetic turn from Sabrina Dawn, they try to wring some emotional resonance out of the material, even if I found it didn't quite square up given the patience-testing runtime. It's the thought that counts.

Now, this is a video era production, and the standards of craft have certainly deteriorated from the Golden Age when these things were shot on film and probably with better skilled and staffed crews. I will however say that the sword and sandal genre makes it less of an issue given that the average budget of these things is already pretty low (and this one has enough for costumes, sets and horses), and this movie further sidesteps the problem by shifting the action to present day through a time travel plot. (Silvera remarks: "Shit, man, out of all the periods in history, this one sucks the most.") There is even some attempted style, namely an early scene where the movie cuts between a character being slain and two others having sex, building the intensity of the sequence with some well deployed tribal drumbeats. And as a porno, while your enjoyment will largely depend on your affinity for big-haired babes in loincloths, they do gain a certain energy from the use of music, and the more primitive of the female barbarians are in appealingly feral form, despite going through standard porn choreography.

[chaoticdesertdweller]

"Ronnie Wood about to take off on a small plane during the New Barbarians tour in 1979. Since I'm outside the plane, I must have ridden the bus on this leg."- Henry Diltz via Facebook

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like a house on fire 🔥

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