YMMV / Barbarian Queen

• Accidental Innuendo: When the torturer attempts to rape Amethea, it is clear in the unrated cut that she is squeezing his lower body between her muscular thighs. The R-rated cut eliminates all the shots below the waist depicting this, causing it to look like Amethea is crushing the torturer's penis with her super-strong vagina.
• Broken Base: Opinion is divided on whether or not this can be considered a feminist film. On the one hand, there are a lot of rapes depicted on-screen and quite a lot of male-gaze Fanservice. On the other hand, the whole movie is a subversion of the usual Heroic Fantasy tropes and The Hero is never made out to be a weak figure, even when she's strapped naked to a rack!
• Complete Monster:
  • First film: Lord Arrakur and his army wipe out Amethea's village, along with at least one other village over the course of several days' raiding. He abducts the young men, forcing them to be gladiators in his arena ,and takes the women, including Amethea's younger sister, to be sex slaves. Arrakur allows his men to torture, rape and murder as they please. He captures Amethea and tortures her for information on the whereabouts of the rebels and tries to have her broken in anticipation of making her an obedient sex slave.
  • The Empress Strikes Back: Hofrax is King Arkanis's misogynistic right-hand man. Assisting his master in keeping an iron grip over the land, Hofrax allows his men to harm the villagers as they please. In charge of Arkanis's slave trade, Hofrax has many farmers captured and sold off across the land. After getting captured and humiliated by Princess Athalia, Hofrax masterminds a plan to lure her by executing innocent peasants in the town square. Once she's in his grasp, he humiliates her by binding her to a torture rack and stripping her completely naked. He then proceeds to stretch her nude body on the rack, slowly torturing her to death. He cackles sadistically at her cries of agony, promising her that she will die slowly and painfully, but not before her rebel army is completely destroyed by his hand. Athalia, consumed by agony and utterly helpless at the villain’s hands, gasps that someday someone will come and avenge her.
• Cult Classic: The film has a following, for several reasons, although probably the biggest one is its infamous torture rack scene, which remains popular to this day among BDSM enthusiasts. And given how much of the sequel is spent on the buxom blond heroine bare-breasted on the rack (perhaps 10% of the film’s run time), you wouldn’t be wrong in thinking the entire reason they even made a sequel was to capitalize on the popularity of the original’s rack scenes.