Barbarian Queen 1985

On the eve of a royal wedding, Queen Amethea, Lana Clarkson, looks forward to a union with Prince Argan, Frank Zagarino. The celebration is cut short when Arrakur’s forces launch a brutal raid on the peaceful village. In the chaos, Amethea’s younger sister, Taramis Dawn Dunlap, is assaulted, and Argan and Taramis are carried off along with several others, while the rest of the villagers are slain. The three women who manage to survive—the queen herself, her handmaiden Estrild, Katt Shea, and the fearless fighter Tiniara Susana Traverso—resolve to infiltrate Arrakur’s city, free the captives, and strike back against tyranny, no matter the cost.

As the trio travels toward danger, they stumble upon a small outpost of Arrakur’s forces. The women eliminate the sentinels and discover Taramis held prisoner in the camp, seemingly traumatized by what she has endured. The mood shifts from pursuit to rescue as they recognize the scale of the task ahead and the price of failure. In parallel, they meet parts of an underground resistance that agrees to help them slip past the city gates, though it refuses to join an open rebellion against Arrakur’s rule. Inside Arrakur’s domain, Amethea discovers that Argan and the other men from her village are being forced to fight as gladiators in the central arena, a cruel form of control designed to crush every spark of resistance. Taramis keeps close to Arrakur, following him into the palace, while Amethea and Tiniara—still determined—work to reunite with Estrild and complete their mission.

Estrild’s fate takes a dark turn as she becomes part of the arena’s brutal hierarchy, a defiant thread of hope within a harsh system. Amethea and Tiniara are separately interrogated; Estrild fights to stay alive and to keep faith with the plan to liberate them all. Amethea endures a brutal dungeon ordeal, left stripped and bound, but she remains steadfast, plotting her next move while the castle tightens around them. In a tense moment, Arrakur and Taramis—who poses as a consenting participant in the palace’s power games—press for information about the rebels who helped Amethea. The ventilation of secrets is a dangerous game, and time is running out.

Meanwhile, Argan, the other gladiators, and Estrild rally beneath the surface, preparing an uprising from within the arena. The plan comes to a head when the rebels, now blending with the gladiators, strike during the climactic melee. Amethea faces Arrakur in a one-on-one duel, a brutal test of skill and nerve. Though she is eventually momentarily disarmed, the fight reaches a turning point when Taramis—driven by loyalty and a willingness to act—stabs Arrakur in the back, ending his tyranny. In the aftermath, Amethea and Argan are finally reunited, and the city erupts in celebration as the oppressor’s grip is shattered and a new dawn begins for the liberated community.