Not just one of the best fantasy movies of the 1980s, not just one of the first films to make Arnold Schwarzenegger a household name, and not just a movie with great nudity, Conan the Barbarian is all of those things together and so much more! It spawned loads of merchandise, a less-than-stellar sequel, and a disappointing 2011 remake, but still nothing tops the jaw-dropping original.
Released on May 14, 1982, the epic tale of a muscle-bound warrior on a quest for revenge against the evil necromancer who destroyed his village and killed his parents hit theaters and became a blockbuster hit. This was definitely thanks in part to nude scenes from a trio of busty, barbaric babes! The bewitching Casandra Gava goes fully nude before she’s thrown into a fire, Leslie Foldvary is stripped down to just a thong loincloth before being sacrificed to a giant snake, and Sandahl Bergman flaunts her funbags while rolling around in bed with the Conan-nator. There’s enough skin here to make one forget it was marketed as a kids’ movie!
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As the titular hero, Arnold doesn’t have any lines within the first 24 minutes the film, not until he’s asked the now legendary question “What is best in life?” Well, we all know what our answer would be!
