Help identifying a film

[ChocolateFrog]

My brother and I were reminiscing about a film we had on tape as kids. We can only remember one scene. It will have been from the late 70's or more likely the 80's. A sci-fi or dystopian fantasy.

The scene is a woman (99% sure) and a man handcuffed together with a chain connecting them. They're sword fighting. The woman wins and chops off the hand of the opponent which is left hanging in the handcuff. 'She' then swings it round above her head covering those watching in blood spatter.

That's all we can remember.

Currently ruled out:

Kill Bill (too recent but the right vibe)
Running Man
Cyborg
Red Sonja (really thought we had it with that one)

It could be some really obscure B movie and we'll never know. Seem to remember it being set in space on another world but that could be a red herring.

[spikeyhead]

Mad Max?

[ChocolateFrog]

I don't think so, wasn't one I remember in our collection but I'll check because it's driving us nuts.

[Halmyre]

There's a 1975 Yul Brynner film, The Ultimate Warrior, he loses a hand in that but can't remember the exact circumstances.

[littlebasher]

The Salute of the Jugger ?

[ChocolateFrog]

Not ringing any bells.

[emperorburger]

The Humanoid?

[snuffy]

I spent years trying to find out the name of a film I'd watched in the mid 90s and finally found the answer at the start of this year.

I tried endlessly sticking plot lines into Google, IMDB, film based website etc until finally out it popped.

I know it now, but I will be impressed if anyone can work it out from what I remembered (bearing in mind that my recollection might not be 100% accurate):

Starts off with black plantation slaves being branded and then running into the sea. Then they re-appeared in a dystopian future ghetto which is ultra violent. One scene involved a pregnant women being kicked in the stomach until she miscarried. And at the end of the film, the characters re-emerge from the sea, as if they have never been away.

And I've still not managed to watch it yet, having taken around 25 years to finally find out what it's called !

[Radec]

snuffy said:

I spent years trying to find out the name of a film I'd watched in the mid 90s and finally found the answer at the start of this year.

I tried endlessly sticking plot lines into Google, IMDB, film based website etc until finally out it popped.

I know it now, but I will be impressed if anyone can work it out from what I remembered (bearing in mind that my recollection might not be 100% accurate):

Starts off with black plantation slaves being branded and then running into the sea. Then they re-appeared in a dystopian future ghetto which is ultra violent. One scene involved a pregnant women being kicked in the stomach until she miscarried. And at the end of the film, the characters re-emerge from the sea, as if they have never been away.

And I've still not managed to watch it yet, having taken around 25 years to finally find out what it's called !

Sounds like Welcome to the Terrordome

[snuffy]

Radec said:

snuffy said:

I spent years trying to find out the name of a film I'd watched in the mid 90s and finally found the answer at the start of this year.

I tried endlessly sticking plot lines into Google, IMDB, film based website etc until finally out it popped.

I know it now, but I will be impressed if anyone can work it out from what I remembered (bearing in mind that my recollection might not be 100% accurate):

Starts off with black plantation slaves being branded and then running into the sea. Then they re-appeared in a dystopian future ghetto which is ultra violent. One scene involved a pregnant women being kicked in the stomach until she miscarried. And at the end of the film, the characters re-emerge from the sea, as if they have never been away.

And I've still not managed to watch it yet, having taken around 25 years to finally find out what it's called !

Sounds like Welcome to the Terrordome

Bloody hell - you are right !

[dudleybloke]

Ice pirates.