The Phantom Empire (1988)
Producer / director / all round genius, Fred Olen Ray throws the kitchen sink at us in this tale of diamond prospecting in the California desert. We get cannibals, Robbie the Robot, a lost underground world, sexy women in animal skins (Say hi to Michelle Bauer, folks), as well as stop motion dinosaurs from another film.
A decent cast - including Russ Tamblyn, Robert Quarry, Ross Hagen (In Indiana Jones mode), Jeffrey Combs (also in heroic Indiana Jones mode) and Sybil Danning as the buxom queen of the underground kingdom, - try and keep a straight face
Yes it's dumb, but Olen Ray keeps things very lively and it's a lot of fun for a special* audience.
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