Slave Girls (1967)

The plot of Prehistoric Women (AKA Slave Girls. AKA Scream of the Haunted Ferret) is mighty strange as it encompasses an English hero discovering a lost world of warring women, strangely masked men who constantly lurk in the trees, not one but two rebellious uprisings, a conclusion that I could not begin to adequately explain, and a timewarp lark that ups the weirdness scale in what is already a weird tale. Oh, and there are many, many dance numbers (complete with ensemble choral chanting) throughout the film. Indeed, there is dancing and chanting aplenty. Thus, as one may surmise from this overview, at one level the film is total rubbish, a factor exacerbated by its setting within the confines of a most unconvincing jungle, but it is still amusingly compelling, a factor 100% the result of Martine Bestwick, who is nothing short of glorious. Of the latter point, I did wonder why the stoic hero, David, was so resistant to her carnal demands! So, Prehistoric Women (AKA Slave Girls. AKA Scream of the Haunted Ferret) is a 1960s Hammer curio for sure, but it is worth catching, if only to witness the majestic Kari, before her tussle with a wheeled fibreglass member of the rhinocerotidae family, of course.

A lot of scantily clad women showing off their pulchritude and doing some exotic dance moves is the best reason I can think of to watch Prehistoric Women. If you find others let me know.Michael Latimer white safari guide in 19th century Africa gets caught by a nasty tribe who's been that way for several centuries ever since someone took their white rhinoceros god away. Latimer goes into some She like fire and emerges back in time when the social pecking order was brunette amazons rule with blond slaves and an even lower caste, men.But Queen Martine Beswick is getting a booty call and she thinks the newcomer Latimer is the best who can scratch that itch. But Latimer has decided to throw in with the blonds and overthrow the social order.That's it folks, about as dumb a plot as you'll ever find in a film. I'm sure even the great rhinoceros didn't approve of this sacrilege to his name.As for the ending, all I can say is that someone was reading Mark Twain or seeing the Bing Crosby classic, A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court. You do better to see that.

Michael Carreras directed this campy prehistoric film that stars Michael Latimer as African big game hunter David Marchant who is captured by a hostile tribe and taken to a temple guarded by a white rhino. A lightning bolt hits the temple, splitting a wall, which David runs through and into the past, where two rival, warring(and beautiful!) all-female tribes(one blonde, the other brunette) vie for his attentions, though the brunette Queen Kari(played by Martine Beswick) is particularly ruthless, and will stop at nothing to either possess David, or kill him... Silly film is nonetheless semi-watchable, and almost works as a guilty pleasure, though not a minute of it rings true!

This film makes it perfectly clear that blondes do not have more fun! The evil brunettes of the ruling tribe in some unamed African country (on the back lot) take all the blondes in the country as slaves as well as all the available men. Leading this group of nasties is the wonderful Martine Beswick, a staple in Hammer films who has a beauty that resembles that of the even more wonderful Barbara Steele. Queen Martine periodically makes human sacrifices of the unfortunate blondes and generally rules with an iron fist(and a whip which she cracks with menace).Into this happy kingdom stumbles a white hunter who immediately falls in love with one of the blonde slave girls and decides to put a stop to all the nonsense. He does so with dispatch and Queen Martine goes to the happy hunting ground on the horn of the white rhino of the alternate title of this film (Slave Girls of the White Rhinoceros).The symbolism in this film is hilarious......the Queen stroking the rhino horn, the cracking whip....it smacks of bondage and domination. It just adds another dimension to an already insane film. It is so much fun that I had to give it a higher rating than it deserves.