Record number: 1625
Title: Dragonslayer (1981)
Medium: Movie
Actress: Yolande Palfrey, Chloe Salaman
Description: The king has made a bargain with a dragon; he'll provide virgins if the dragon leaves his kingdom alone. In the picture's opening sequense, the Victim (Palfrey) has her wrists chained overhead to a stake. After a desperate struggle, the Victim slips out of the manacles (the bloody wounds on her wrist are frightenly realistic) and flees, but Vermithrax Pejorative (that's the dragon) tracks her down and turns her into a crispy critter (off screen). Near the end of the movie, Princess Elspeth (Salaman) volunteers to be the next dragon-victim. Her wrists are chained overhead to a stake; she passively awaits her doom. When the hero (Peter McNichol) comes to her rescue and slices her chains, she walks into the dragon's lair and is slain by baby dragons (off screen, thank goodness).
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