Time Barbarians

written and directed by Joseph John Barmettler

Release: circa 1990
Format: Feature Film
Genre: Fantasy
Audience: Adults
Content: Definite Time Travel
Original Language: English

In an ancient world of swords, sorcery, loin cloths, and bejeweled bikinis, an evil thief kills King Deran’s queen before escaping to modern-day Los Angeles. Since the thief also took a magic amulet with him, a loinclothless wizardess sends Deran after him to retrieve the amulet and avenge the queen’s brutal death.

— Michael Main

The man you seek is in this world no longer. You must travel to another time to find him.

DEBUT

Time Barbarians (direct-to-video, USA, circa 1990).

VARIANTS

2 English variants

TAGS(SPOILERS!)

Time Periods

Stone Age (3.4 Ma to 3000 BC: Paleo/Epipaleo/Meso/Neo/Chalcolithic): Could be a secondary sword-and-sorcery world, but the wizardess says it’s “another time.”
Circa AD 1970 to 1999: Los Angeles, circa 1990.

Time Travel Methods

Magic Time Travel

Themes

Chases through Time

TIME TRAVEL ITINERARY: We haven’t yet mapped out the time travel itinerary.

INDEXER NOTES (SPOILERS!)

Date of 1990 from the copyright in the video. However, the <a href='https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0100788%2Freleaseinfo'>IMDb</a> lists a first video release in September 1991 [West Germany].