It's the big fish, Will and Chase's white whale. It's Arnold Schwarzenegger and James Earl Jones (in a wig). It's the definitive cinematic adaptation of Robert E. Howard's genre-defining literary world. It's the one that started it all and it's all right here, on the Sorta Sorcery podcast.

When evil legions stalk the land, a hero must wield a mighty sword and battle against the... is all of this starting to sound familiar? It was probably less played out in 1980 when this film was released. Join the boys for incensed discussion of bus routes, The Wheel of Time and the effects of misogyny on heroic fantasy. There is also occasional discussion of this week's film, Hawk the Slayer.

This week the boys just couldn't help themselves and skipped to Ator 4, the conclusion of the Ator series. This film answers the question: what if the dad from "Good Luck Charlie," (Eric Allan Kramer) played a version of Ator who is raised by a hobgoblin after his father (also named Ator and played by Eric Allen Kramer), who was the prince of a race of said hobgoblins, is promptly killed by a goblin god. What if indeed. This love letter to the sword and sorcery genre contains frequent homages to "Die Nibelungen" and is our last foray into the catalog of Italian fantasy and erotic film director Joe D'Amato.