A Nymphoid Barbarian in Dinosaur Hell

I think it would be fair to give a life-sized dinosaur model to anyone who, while watching this film, can understand what it's about. Without reading the notes, of course.

A Nymphoid Barbarian in Dinosaur Hell, a 1990 film by Brett Piper, is simply a huge mess. And to this mess, Troma adds its touch, turning an already illogical story into absolute chaos.

Brett Piper said that an actor he had worked with on a previous film asked him to make a movie with him if he could find funding. Piper accepted, and the two began working on an old script the director had written but never produced. The film was initially titled The Dark Fortress.

Admiring the great Ray Harryhausen (I think), Piper decided to make a movie filled with animated monsters, costumes, adventures, and—why not—boobs. He vaguely achieved his goals, though maybe he should have added more boobs, created better effects, and managed the story better. But hey, you can't have everything, right?

A distributor then told him to use as few dialogues as possible to ensure better success abroad. So he did. However, the distributor later decided they wanted nothing to do with it.

Then came Troma, interested in distributing the film. After long and exhausting negotiations, they bought it, changed the title to A Nymphoid Barbarian in Dinosaur Hell, added a new opening scene, and a voice-over explaining the situation. Result: they made it worse, giving us an incomprehensible B-movie that could have even had a sequel if Piper had gone to Kaufman with the money.

So, if you’ve made it this far without going crazy, it's fair to talk about the film itself. In the first few minutes, we learn that after a nuclear explosion in Tromaville, the world has regressed, and dinosaurs have returned. For no apparent reason.

But we also don't know who the so-called "Nymphoid" of the title is, since she simply doesn’t exist. The protagonist, Lea, is indeed a woman, but she has no particularly sexual urges. All she does is try to survive in this post-nuke world filled with dinosaurs and some nasty villains trying to take her down. And then she finds love, basically through gestures since, as mentioned, there is little to no dialogue.