There was a time, long ago, when fantasy movies didn’t look like Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy. That’s not to say that there’s anything wrong with those excellent movies, but they’ve dominated our cultural idea of fantasy fiction for more than two decades now, and it’s important to remember that genres aren’t locked into just one aesthetic. So it’s a good thing that Netflix just added Conan the Destroyer, the second movie in the Conan series, a throwback and distinctly un-Tolkien version of fantasy that feels pulled directly from the pages of Heavy Metal magazine.
While Netflix only has the second movie at the moment, it’s well worth catching up on both entries of Conan’s cinematic adventures. Conan the Barbarian tells the mythical story of the barbarian king, played by Arnold Schwarzenegger, whose family is murdered in front of him by the raving snake-cult hordes of Thulsa Doom, played
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