What do you call a Bad film with no sorceress in it? What else? Sorceress. Producer Roger Corman took a list of potential titles to a local high school and polled the students on which they preferred. Sorceress got the nod, and that was that. Lack of sorceress be damned.

So, the plot: Traigon is an evil sorcerer who promised his Evil Goddess his firstborn in return for ultimate power, ruling the world, etc. He knocks up a peasant chick, but...twin girls?! Which one was first? GAK! Traigon is killed by the girls' mother, but no matter. He's got three lives, see. He'll be back.

Meanwhile, the good wizard Krona zaps the girls with his powers and gives them to a peasant couple to raise as boys (to throw Traigon off the trail). Twenty years pass. Traigon returns. He seeks The Two Who Are One.

Now, with the help of D&D-esque companions Baldar (Dwarven Warrior?), Erlick (hunky but somehow weak Barbarian prince with at least a few levels in Rogue), and Pando (a literal satyr), the twins must defeat Traigon...who is their father!

This is all complicated when Traigon captures the firstborn twin and mind-controls her and Erlick to sacrifice themselves to the evil goddess! Can the rest of the party save them in time...and the world?

The film was this close to being directed by Allen Smithee, because director Jack Hill was so disappointed in the final result he didn't want his name on it. Also, Hill claims that Dino De Laurentiis, who was filming Dune in the same studio, stole the movie's lighting equipment for his own production. Makes sense, since De Laurentiis also wanted HIS name removed from his movie, too. (The airline cut of Dune was directed by Alan Smithee.)

Other weirdness: Most of the music was stolen from James Horner's score for 1980's Battle Beyond the Stars. And during production, two days' worth of footage was destroyed by a mysterious explosion in the studio's film vault. A time traveler trying to spare us, perhaps?

The Bad Movie icing on this Bad Movie cake? The film was edited into a completely different Bad Movie: Wizards of the Lost Kingdom. No, there were no wizards or lost kingdom, either, unless you count Traigon.