FAME READS / SCREEN NOTES
Conan the Barbarian
Scores
- Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer67%as of 2024-08-02
- Rotten Tomatoes average6.5/10as of 2021-10-05
- Metacritic43/100as of 2025-07-14
What it is
Conan the Barbarian is a 1982 American sword-and-sorcery film directed by John Milius from a screenplay he co-wrote with Oliver Stone. Based on Robert E. Howard's Conan, the epic film stars Arnold Schwarzenegger and James Earl Jones, and tells the story of a barbarian named Conan (Schwarzenegger) who seeks to avenge his parents' deaths at the hands of Thulsa Doom (Jones), the leader of a snake cult.
At a glance
- Genres
- Action / Fantasy / Adventure
- Original language
- English
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