Sinbad of the Seven Seas (1989)

User Rating:

3.4/10   

Directors:

Enzo G. Castellari
Tim Kincaid (co-director)

Writers:

Luigi Cozzi (story)
Tito Carpi (screenplay) ...

Genre:

Fantasy

Tagline:

He must conquer evil on land and at sea!

Plot:

Sinbad and his shipmates aid a young prince, who must battle an evil wizard to gain the hand of a beautiful princess.

Plot Keywords:

Sinbad | Princess | Sailor | Magician | Zombie

Cast

Lou Ferrigno	...	Sinbad
John Steiner	...	Jaffar
Roland Wybenga	...	Alì
Ennio Girolami	...	Viking
Hal Yamanouchi	...	Samurai (as Haruhiko Yamanouchi)
Yehuda Efroni	...	Ahmed
Alessandra Martines	...	Alina
Teagan Clive	...	Soukra (as Teagan)
Leo Gullotta	...	Nadir
Stefania Girolami Goodwin	...	Kyra (as Stefania Girolami)
Donald Hodson	...	Calif
Melonee Rodgers	...	Queen Farida
Cork Hubbert	...	Midget
Romano Puppo	...	Captain
Attilio Cesare Lo Pinto	...	Zombie King (as Attilio Lo Pinto)

Also Known As:

Sinbad

Runtime:

93 min

Country:

Italy | USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Telecolor)

Certification:

USA:PG-13

Company:

Cannon Films

Trivia:

The character wearing a skull mask and called The Great and Wise Oracle is actually a stock footage insert of the leader of the Moon Men taken from Maciste e la regina di Samar (1964), slightly modified by voiceover and light effects. In the movie's next scene battles a stone man on Skull Island. This can be understood as an homage to above-mentioned peplum, in which similarly fashioned stone men play an important role as well.

Quotes:

Jaffar: I'm warning you! You are forcing me to carry out my most devastating act of magical madness!

The Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made

No, really. Sinbad is easily more entertaining than Plan 9 from Outer Space, which is more commonly considered the best bad movie ever.

I won't give away all the details that make this movie so laughably awful, but I'll mention a few that I hope will convince you to find and watch this film. (You can read a more comprehensive review at www.rinkworks.com/badmovie/m/sinbad.of.the.seven.seas.1989.shtml)

John Steiner hammimg up the role of Jaffar, the villain. In particular, he exclaims one two-letter word that must be heard to be believed. You'll know which one I mean when you hear it.

All the music is done by one guy on a synthesizer, a total of about five different sound effects are used in all the fight scenes, and all the lines are DUBBED OVER. It seems the filmmakers didn't have the ability to record live sound on the set.

All action scenes are done in slow motion, and this is made painfully obvious by Lou Ferrigno's flapping, overgrown, oiled man-pecs.

However, all these shortcomings pale in comparison to the dialogue. I'll conclude with a snippet:

Sinbad: Wait a minute. There's nobody here.

Poochie the Dwarf: There's nobody here.

Sinbad: I just said that. That's the point.