Even by the standards of movie producer Roger Corman this exploitation film is very poor stuff. Sorceress was directed by B movie director Jack Hill. Clearly the intention was to make a cheapo version of the John Milius film, Conan The Barbarian. According to Hill the producer Roger Corman stepped in after filming and did a lot of reediting ruining Hill's film. Hill's comments are kind of laughable since this was the guy who directed, The Big Doll House, The Big Bird Cage and The Swinging Cheerleaders, hardly award winning stuff.
Sorceress is a typical Roger Corman production with sex, violence and nudity but when it comes to female nudity in a Roger Corman show, it's nothing below the waist. Corman was strangely prudish about female nudity in his films while still managing to exploit his female cast. In this film the nudity is kind of ineptly photographed.
Corman has recently passed away as of this writing and has been getting a lot of accolades about his career mostly I think because he was a survivor of the B movie Hollywood film scene which has been surpassed by the crap that now shows up on streaming channels. A lot has been written about Corman giving opportunities to filmmakers like Bogdanovich and Scorsese at the beginning of their careers but the bottom line was that it was all about turning a profit for Corman.
Sorceress is sort of a cult film mostly because it is so ineptly made and poorly acted and I'm not even going to get into the dialog. I suppose there are a few chuckles to be had with some of the ridiculous scenes and characters, a guy in a Viking costume shows up for no particular reason and the climatic special effects at the end of the film are hilariously poor. Well you get the picture.
The film has a writing credit for Jim Wynorski although Jack Hill claims he actually wrote the script probably something he shouldn't be talking about. The running time is 83 minutes.
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