A follow-on film, Barbarian Queen II: The Empress Strikes Back was billed as a sequel, when in actuality neither the plot nor the characters had anything to do with the original Barbarian Queen film, other than casting Lana Clarkson in the title role, and having a scene where her character is stretched out naked on a rack and slowly tortured to death.
It was billed as a sequel to the 1985 cult classic film Barbarian Queen, which also starred Clarkson, although the plot and characters bear no relation to the earlier film.
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Whereas this film's predecessor Barbarian Queen was able to benefit from the publicity of the successful big-budget Conan film and get some play in discount movie theaters, Barbarian Queen II: The Empress Strikes Back was not so fortunate.
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Whereas this film's predecessor Barbarian Queen was able to benefit from the publicity of the successful big-budget film Conan the Barbarian, and was released to some discount movie theaters, Barbarian Queen II: The Empress Strikes Back was released straight to video and DVD.
Released on a low budget on DVD at a time when home DVD players were first coming to the market and people were building libraries from the few films available, this title reached audiences that might otherwise have passed it up for more mainstream options, much like Lana Clarkson's Barbarian Queen and David Carradine's Death Race 2000.
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