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The Warriors of the Wasteland (I Nuovi barbari) (1982)

modified American public domain version

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Two mercenaries help wandering caravans fight off an evil and aimless band of white-clad bikers after the nuclear holocaust.


This movie is part of the collection: Feature Films

Audio/Visual: sound, color
Keywords: Enzo G. Castellari; Science Fiction; Sci-Fi; Thriller; Action; Post Apocalyptic; Homosexuality; Italy

Creative Commons license: Public Domain

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Reviewer: SonOfChaos - - July 14, 2009
Subject: Wut?
*This encoding has serious audio video sync issues.

The title of this review entitles my first reaction after fully understanding the message of this film.

Basically, 2019, Nuclear Apocalypse. Various pockets of humanity survive and seek 'civilization' by following radio signals. These nice civilization seeking people only have one obstacle preventing peace, happiness and repopulation. Homosexuals!

Yes, those damn homosexuals, or as they are called in this film 'Knights Templar' clearly hate the god-loving procreative behavior of religious loving organizations like their shared communal prostitute.

After slaughtering a group of innocent people the Templars are certain to tear up and tread upon a bible while blaming reading for the apocalypse, WOW! Their atheist too!

Enter the protagonist 'Scorpion', an ex-Templar(I think, things are kinda hazy)who wishes to kill and slaughter all Templars cause he wants to live. His Templar status was not the only thing that confused me, after rescuing a beautiful girl once her male companion is killed, he scares her by trying to examine her wounded soldier, she *thinks* he is trying to rape her, luckily, he was just checking her shoulder for injury so she realizes he is an okay guy and has sex with him. Or did she? It is kinda hard to follow with them having sex on the space walk from Revenge of the Nerds, while being intercut with their sitting in the car. CLARITY is not this films strong suit. *Note to film makers. When you have a beautiful female actress(especially Italian, Jewish or Asian!)have a hot naked sex scene, at LEAST take the time to get some good IN FOCUS shots, beautiful naked flesh can make even the worst films more tolerable, unless Abba is involved, then just forget about it.

To sum it up, if you are offended by all homosexuals being portrayed as a group trying to wipe out all humanity with their 'evil' ways, religious caravan's who save humanity with their designated hooker to service all men in the camp, a child who slaughters homo's with his mighty slingshot at a rate that would make Rambo blush, or Zod conducting a ceremonial anal rape of a captured prisoner on a custom wheelie system for maximum access(KNEEL BEFORE ZOD!!!! during that scene), you might me offended by this movie.

If you are not offended by ANY of this and are nodding along please send an email to the FBI stating how wonderful this picture is and include your address, they will send you a free movie just like this one!

If you don't believe any of this but are not offended you are probably a fan of polemical exploitation cinema and just plain weird stuff like myself.

2 stars.

Reviewer: themaki19 - - July 13, 2009
Subject: great fun
great fun movie like its superior prequels bronx warriors 1 and 2. sadly this one is missing Trash, and is absolutely nothing to do with bronx warriors 1 and 2 but is apparently part of the trilogy,
well you got people blowing up , heads being cut off, shootings stabings and lots of death and mutants we like mutants, i dont know what is modified in this version i didnt notice anything. apart from the sound being way out. best thing to do put it on windows movie maker find the bit where it messes up and insert a 7 second insert so the sound will be back to normal. oh yeah km player will let you rip the audio from the video

Reviewer: goldenband - - July 13, 2008
Subject: The sound for this is way, way out of sync
As others have pointed out, by the end of the movie the sound is more than seven seconds ahead of the picture! We ended up watching the movie by piping the audio into a digital delay unit, but we had to keep adjusting it as the lag grew worse throughout.

As for the movie itself, it's total schlock, but you probably knew that already. Fun schlock, though.

Reviewer: Fireball Steve Zodiac - - July 4, 2008
Subject: Chocolate and Vanilla sci-fi apocalyptic type.
The other reviewers are missing the message of this film, this is post nuclear death. Italian film makers like to be brutally honest about portraying reality, and visions of reality. As though to say, "Don't question what I am telling you." Call this a part of the spaghetti genre in part for its Italian machismo, but another part is dedication to truths that they do unfortunately sometimes over stereotype. Okay, I've stood behind it now here comes the critique.

Cheesy sci-fi flicks that don't spend ANY money on special effects are hateful, almost like the producers couldn't take themselves seriously enough to come up with a good fake and settled, and didn't care if it came out shineola. This movie paid for special effects. Some cheesy yes. I like it. Yes overdone testosterone levels and a potentially gay gang out to rule the contryside. In a way though, while it looks cheesy on film, this is a good interpretation of what is LIKELY in the aftermath of a nuclear destruction of Earth. Faction against faction to establish a uniformity of rule, and even dress. Yeh the Michael Jackson wingtips on the white uniforms is kinda over the top. Anyway the Elite will live in enclaves behind secure walls with advanced protection and clean sources for living. It'll be boring and safe. This film depicts the other people destined to be outcast by design of the Elite that caused the nukes to be launched and create such an outcome by design. And if I sound conspiracy theory-like right now that's by design. There are MANY conspiracy theory overtones in this flick, from the leads talking about the survival of the New Knights Templar, to decreeing they are going to feed Mother Earth with pagan ritual sacrifice. Do a search for "Esoteric Agenda" and buy it and watch it. The Italian title: I Nuovi barbari, means literally the New Barbarians. But the USA version is titled Warriors of the Wasteland. Misleading by design, probably not? Maybe CT, maybe not. Lots of thug mentality, and a scene just came on with some dude in a jockstrap on a clear table. Another declaring that the Templars shall hate and exterminate. Then they seemingly torture some dude in front of a burning parachute that he's tied near too. But I don't see what's torturing him, he just looks hot and uncomfortable. Sheesh, what do you say to that? Then everyone walks over to the new Winnebago RV. Uh YUP. Not too gay.

I like the cars...they are stupid looking. Take offs on the California funny car movement from the 60s and 70s but with lots of twirling head cutting off things and ejecting lances and compression over drive torgue wrench declarative electric toothbrushes. There are an awful lot of lilly white things in this flick. If this was shot in New Mexico or elsewhere in the Southwest believe me everything would have dirt on it. And someone definitely has the keys to the gas tank. Lots of gas fires and blow torching and petroleum based smokes.

The dialogue is better than most flicks of this type. The female leads' makeup is post Playboy late 70s, early 80s period makeup, she looks like Gloria Steinem did when she was a Playboy bunny. And everyone in "leisure" wear is in that plasticene covering stuff that only looks good on Star Wars imperial soldiers and Darth Vader, but his is black.

Fred Williams is good. A reprise of the black on white love scene from Mandingo just went by. Did I just say that?

The one white lead sucks, the other is okay.

I love the bubble headed Pontiac GTO. Except that GTOs were real muscle and macho cars, not gay parade float wannabees. Rockets firing out of its rear trunk, that could have a sexual overtone read into it. Guys on dirt bikes staying on their bikes because the guy driving the car they are chasing doesn't swerve and take them out. Which all leads to a show down between 2 of the lead characters. The one, instead of shooting his enemy, he shoots his enemy's car.

If we ever get off our petroleum diet this could be historic insightful future thinking footage. I'd love to shoot a car.

The characters are 2 dimensional, even when they're getting flat. The American version probably got cut to make a PG rating, which BTW was known as GP, which threw a lot of parents into fits when they thought it meant General Public. And their poor kids saw something awful as a result. QED.

Its really about one political faction trying to oust the other with a mysterious Morse Code signal intertwined for interest and intrigue which lures each faction to each other, and so yes they spend a lot of time riding around blowing up things. Isn't that what our government is doing? We should think that's stupid too.

The movie ends the same way as our government did in Iraq, with someone thinking they have won.

Also the movie starts out with gunpowder type cartridge firing guns using a synth sound effect for the sound of the gunshot. Someone must have wised someone up that it wasn't cutting it in the dailies. They get back to reality eventually.

And about 11.5 minutes into the online version the audio goes out of synch.

The beginning theme music and the ending music are cool. Not disco at all like it was in the heartbeat 80s.

3 Stars, cheese, beefcake, dorks and all.

Reviewer: RevRoach - - June 22, 2008
Subject: Is it worth it?
I bought this film on one of those $1 DVDs and I have to say I paid about $10 more then I should have.
Download this and email the producer to let them know that they owe you cash!
This is 5000% Crap!

If you want to know how to NEVER make a film watch this!

Reviewer: DirectedBy - - June 21, 2008
Subject: Mascara, styled hair and them damn goofy shoulder pads!
OKOKOK -- call me a nitpicker .... but ... how is it in this 'wasteland' the women-folk (and men) have blow-dried coiffed hair-do's ...?

Or -- how's about them Flying Nun width shoulder pads ...?

Or -- most of all, perfect makeup jobs to include a thick gob of MASCARA ..??

Beyond that, all I recall of the film was them driving around the same scrub-brush area ... lots of explosions ... and them lily-white on white frocks.

As a filmmaker -- I oft times find it rude to call out another filmmaker's shortcomings as he or she put lots of work in the 'soup to nuts' (scripting to shooting to editing to release, etc.) .... BUT ---- oy vey! One must occasionally ask one's self on the set if they are logical? This extends from the stars (main characters) to the extras (background players non-speaking / stunts).

It's like say, if we see someone clean-shaven in say the remake of 'FLIGHT OF THE PHOENIX' -- Dennis Quaid's character is seen shaving (albeit a pocket-electric one) ... and hence, a logical thing / motivation about the character.

I would think in WARRIORS OF THE WASTELAND -- that in a perfect script, it woulda-shoulda-coulda been seen that they have the access to clean water / goods from the pre-nuke days and hence, washing machines and dryers and steam irons for clothing that is whiter than Karl Rove's conscience ... and piles and piles of goodies to glean a more perfect hairdo and made up face.

If anything ... one must always remember that movies tend to work when it is related to from the human heart and not the wham-bamm pornography of the boom-boom explosions for explosions sake.

So there and arrivederci!

DB

ps: I'll give the film 2 'Stars' simply because some people gave a hoot to show up and accomplished the aforementioned 'soup to nuts' ...

Reviewer: slugs and urchins - - June 21, 2008
Subject: lots of guns and cars, where do they get the fuel?
there's no filling stations in this film but plenty of car crashes and shootings, too much testosterone but no Testarossas. This film makes the Mad Max look like a really great film!