‘La guerra del ferro’ aka ‘Iron Master’ (1983) - Umberto Lenzi.
A
mercurial movie metallurgist of no small repute, the maniacal minister of blood-thirsty
B-Movie mayhem, Umberto Lenzi lends his singularly sinister skill set to
temper the steel-thewed, furry-arsed, sabre-toothed majesty of this hysterically
unhistorical primordial romp, ‘La guerra del ferro’ aka ‘Iron Master’ (1983). Set during our
planet’s most unflinchingly savage and blood-thirstiest chapter, where we bear
uncomfortable witness in gruesome, Technicolor detail primitive man’s brutal
ascent to dominance, a ceaselessly cruel and violent rite of passage, wherein monstrous,
mammoth-sized beasts laid constant siege upon an unforgiving land, where the
terrible rigours of day-to-day survival fashioned fierce men and women of an uncommonly
robust mettle, but in order to rise victorious and finally become king, it
would take one no less vaunted than an Iron Master! - ‘Iron-willed Warrior Kings
are not weaned on milk and honey in gilded, cloistered halls of privilege; they
are forged in the ferociously distempered furnace of total war!’
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