VividSimon Simply Perfect

Claysaba Excellent, Without a doubt!!

Tayyab Torres Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

Tymon Sutton The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

mark.waltz Absolutely silly from start to finish, the real problem with this female empowerment adventure is that it goes from episode to episode without really flowing from one plot element to the next. It is a badly written but often funny tale of a group of Viking women (lead by Abby Dalton of "Falcon Crest" and Susan Cabot) who decide to head out onto the Nordic seas to find their missing men and end up finding all sorts of other dangers, often going from one danger to the next without really believable explanation of how they got there. Pretty boy Bradford Jackson, who somehow didn't go off to battle with the Viking men, stows away on the Viking women's ship, and unless I blinked and missed it, went from hiding one moment to being amongst the girls in the next, having been discovered somewhere in between. They fight the winds, swirling sharks, a giant sea serpent who turns their ship over yet somehow they manage to all get to shore. There they come across a Barbaric tribe who place them in further danger, and along th way, Dalton and Jackson are threatened with being burnt to death, face another attack by the sea monster, yet somehow they never manage to look dirty or unshaven or with a hair out of place.Dalton, one of my favorite actors on the long running night time soap opera "Falcon Crest", seems far too modern to be clad in cave women dress, as do most of the other females around her. We are supposed to think that the dark haired men are barbarians simply because they are unshaven, yet they seem to have more of a civilized society than the Nordic looking Viking women and the men they are searching for. The sea serpent is appropriately scary looking, and the effects of its attack on their small but elegant Viking ship are actually pretty good. But the idiotic dialog and weak performances exposes this film for the type of drive-in junk it is where scantily clad females run around like some sort of Amazon women from the moon, but never seem to be really ready for the strenuous adventures they will face. I'm sure that real Viking women were closer to the comic strip character of Helga who was married to Viking Hagar, not the pin-up types presented here. This is worth spending 65 minutes simply for a few good laughs at the expense of the film, but like many early American International films, is quickly forgettable.

hrkepler Read the title, then, read it again - what sort of quality you'd expect from a movie with such title. 'Viking Women' is very low production even for Corman's standards and it ranks as one of his worst films he has ever directed. It is a bizarre adventure film and not without entertainment value, but the film is silly and feels and seems so rushed (even Corman himself regretted taking such a big scale project on such a shoestring budget) that it is not hard to pass that particular film, although the title might sound intriguing (the title itself is worthy of some award like - Longest and Hardest to Memorize Title Ever).A band of viking women are planning to take a voyage to search their men who went missing while on the sea. Willful and strong women (who are built like underwear models, and almost dressed as one) build a ship, but soon they get into trouble themselves when the storm rises and cheap looking rubber sea serpent crashes their ship. They are cast on the shore of a land ruled by vicious savages who take the women in as slaves.Somehow Corman managed to make it all work and build somewhat coherent movie around half naked viking women, who looked like sorority girls at viking themed costume party, and one lousy cheap looking monster. Still, the final film is ridiculous enough to bear more similarities with the works of Ed Wood rather than better efforts from Corman himself.

Aaron1375 Roger Corman has been in the movie industry for years. This movie was made in the 1950's and he is still making movies today! Typically, he does movies of lower quality and low budgets, I think his best time came in the late 70's and early 80's as during that time he made some of the coolest horror movies around. Chock full of gore and nudity, but he has not made as many of those films as of late. He was basically remaking his own films in the 90's and I cannot name anything he has done in the 2000's or beyond. During the 50's and 60's he made a wide range of films from cheap horror, to caper films and even westerns. Here he attempted a viking film and this one reminded me of those Italian Hercules films in that it features a band of warriors on a quest and then they promptly get captured and then most of the film is them trying to get away from said captors. It is not one of Corman's worst films, but definitely not his best either. A lot of the films he did during this time were full of padding, making a film that really did not have much to it and stretching it into a feature length film. Probably why he was so much better during the 80's because the padding got a lot more fun to watch in the form of nudity and such.The film features a band of viking women casting votes on whether they should head out to sea to find the missing viking guys. They end up going and they start the trip in glorious fashion losing the boats rudder right off the bat, though they could have simply turned the boat around and gone like 20ft to get it, they decide to try and proceed without it. A young man stows away with them, and soon starts flirting with one of the viking women. They end up attacked by the serpent of the title and soon they find themselves captured by a group with a leader draped in idiotic costumes who has a son that really does not seem like he belongs in the same film. They will discover their men have also been captured and are now these men's slaves! These vikings are also the most clean shaved vikings I have ever seen depicted on screen.I saw this film on Mystery Science Theater 3000, I am guessing that is how a lot of people would have seen it. That or on one of those packages of public domain films where you can get like 50 older flicks for cheap. It was a pretty good episode of the show, but not really great. Most of the good riffing came during the sea serpent attacks. I was surprised they missed a couple of jokes like the whole stowaway aspect as the boat was not a huge vessel and this guy managed to hide while one could literally see the entire boat without turning one's head.So, a typical Roger Corman film from this time period. I would not recommend watching it unless it was on MST3K as it just does not look like a film that is going to be bettered by seeing an unedited viewing. It was made in the 50's after all and Roger did not make the really cool stuff till the 70's so I think one gets a pretty good overview of this one by simply watching the episode of MST3K. The main thing that was noticeably missing was the discovery of the stowaway as one minute he is hiding under a rug and the next he is joking with the crew.

Michael_Elliott Viking Women and the Sea Serpent, The (1957) ** (out of 4) Some viking women head off to locate their missing mates when they're attacked by a sea serpent and thrown on shore where they are taken hostage by some dumb King. The viking women must then fight to save their men and return home before one more battle with the sea creature. This is another ultra low budget picture from AIP and director Roger Corman but it remains slightly fun throughout. The look of the "sea serpent" is actually pretty good and I'd say it's probably the best looking creature from any of Corman's low budget films. The cast including Abby Dalton, Susan Cabot, Brad Jackson and Jonathan Haze is charming as well. The original (and on screen) title of this is The Saga of the Viking Women and Their Voyage to the Waters of the Great Sea Serpent.