History Monster / Maciste

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[[caption-width-right:350:"I know of only one thing worse than physical pain. And that's waiting to be killed."]]

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* ''Fire Monsters Against the Son of Hercules'' (1962): The brutal Fuwan leads the cave people to [[FinalSolution massacre the Sun People in a near genocide]], kidnapping their women to take amongst themselves, and [[HumanSacrifice sacrifice]] to the moon goddess. After the mass murder and the liberation of the hostages, Fuwan enlists a group of [[ImAHumanitarian cannibals]] as soldiers, promising them his tribe's own women, while plotting to betray and [[ManOnFire burn them alive]] in their forests before attempting to complete the extermination of the Sun People.

* ''Hercules Against the Mongols'' (1963): [[SiblingsInCrime Sayan, Susdal and Kariyan "Kin" Khan]], defying [[UsefulNotes/GenghisKhan their father]]'s desires for peace with Europe, launch a bloody war of conquest with the Mongol hordes that sees [[RapePillageAndBurn entire cities razed to nothing]], with countless innocents massacred and enslaved. Subjecting their prisoners to [[ColdBloodedTorture torture]], with the women taken to be [[SexSlave concubines]], the brothers conspire with a traitor to usurp the next kingdom to wipe it out, even murdering Kariyan's wife when she attempts to help the fallen princess Bianca.

-->--'''Kenamon''', about '''Queen Smedes''' and her '''vizier''', ''Son of Samson''

* ''Son of Samson'' (1960): [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Queen Smedes of Egypt]], and her royal vizier [[BigBadDuumvirate partner]], are a pair of Persian sympathizers looking to maintain control over Egypt. Murdering the goodhearted pharaoh and brainwashing his son Kenamon, Smedes and her vizier put the people of Egypt under a terrifying, despotic reign of torture, slavery and massacres, with one luckless rebel taken and [[ColdBloodedTorture burnt with hot pokers]] until the vizier simply tortures him to death. Smedes also has women taken to be sold into slavery, targeting Kenamon's beloved Nofret, intending on control of Egypt [[DespotismJustifiesTheMeans without caring how many she has to slaughter]].
* ''Goliath and the Vampires'' (1961): [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Kobrak]] is the vampiric master of the kingdom of Salmanak, ruling through its [[PuppetKing Sultan]]. Seeking world domination, Kobrak has entire villages burned to the ground, with survivors taken to be made into his [[SlaveMooks robotic slave army]], while women are [[SexSlave forced into harems]]. After the Sultan defies him by allowing Goliath and his love Guja to escape, Kobrak murders him and later has Goliath and Guja captured himself, attempting to destroy Goliath's brain through sound waves to make him his mindless slave. When Goliath escapes, Kobrak assumes his form and infiltrates the cave of the rebel Blue Men to attempt to kill them all, fatally impaling his former slave Astra when she warns them.

[[Film/{{Maciste}} The strongest man of Italy]]--if not [[WorldsStrongestMan the world]]--has been fighting evil since UsefulNotes/TheSilentAgeOfHollywood, and his enemies--whether they be evil [[EvilOverlord tyrants]], [[EvilSorcerer sorcerers]], or bandits--are often nothing less than [[CompleteMonster pure evil]].

[[Film/{{Maciste}} The strongest man of Italy]]--if not the [[WorldsStrongestMan world]]--has been fighting evil since UsefulNotes/TheSilentAgeOfHollywood, and his enemies--whether they be evil [[EvilOverlord tyrants]], [[EvilSorcerer sorcerers]], or bandits--are often nothing less than [[CompleteMonster pure evil]].

[[Film/{{Maciste}} Italy's strongest man]]--if not the [[WorldsStrongestMan world's]]--has been fighting evil since UsefulNotes/TheSilentAgeOfHollywood, and his enemies--whether they be evil [[EvilOverlord tyrants]], [[EvilSorcerer sorcerers]], or bandits--are often nothing less than [[CompleteMonster pure evil]].

[[Film/{{Maciste}} Italy's strongest man]] has been fighting evil since UsefulNotes/TheSilentAgeOfHollywood, and his enemies--whether they be evil [[EvilOverlord tyrants]], [[EvilSorcerer sorcerers]], or bandits--are often nothing less than [[CompleteMonster pure evil]].

* ''The Terror of Rome Against the Son of Hercules'' (1964): Cunning and envious Zefatius is the DragonInChief to Emperor Caesar. Through his Praetorians, Zefatius is responsible for the arrest, slaughter and torture of countless Christians, knowing full well that they're a peaceful people. Those who survive his purges end up meeting their fate at the hands of hungry lions or Caesar's bloody gladiator games. When Maciste gains favor with Caesar, Zefatius begins undermining him out of jealousy, promising to hurl a Christian woman that Maciste has fallen for into the arena naked to die for the entertainment of thousands. Zefatius even cuts the throat his own ally Olympia for helping Maciste, spitefully leaving her corpse in bed for Maciste to find.

* ''The Terror of Rome Against the Son of Hercules'' (1964): (Scraggle)

* ''Mole Men vs the Son of Hercules'' (1961): Kahab, HighPriest of the mole men, is TheManInFrontOfTheMan to the queen Halis Morab. Kahab stole Halis Morab from the surface world as an infant, raised her as a tyrant, and lied to Morab her entire life that she, like the mole people, would die in the sunlight. All the thousands upon thousands of people the mole men have slaughtered and enslaved ultimately go back to Kahab, and when Halis Morab repents, Kahab orders her assassinated and the rebelling slaves all killed. Independent of his role of the Queen's "[[EvilChancellor advisor]]", Kahab [[BadBoss kills his own men]] and has Maciste [[ColdBloodedTorture tortured with a red-hot poker]].

* ''Samson and the Seven Miracles of the World'' (1961): Garak is the Great Khan of the Mongols during their conquest of China in the thirteenth century. Under his rule, the rightful Emperor is assassinated, his son the Prince arranged to die in a hunting accident, and thousands are put to grueling slavery while hundreds more are either publicly executed, tortured for months or massacred in retribution for rebellion. When noble Maciste proves his exceptional strength to him, Garak forces Maciste to prevent a carriage of horses from trampling his rebel friends. Garak has no issue torturing his own soldiers, and when his co-conspirator betrays him, Garak has her flogged before rubbing saltwater into her wounds with vile relish.
* ''Mole Men vs the Son of Hercules'' (1961): Kahab, HighPriest of the mole men, is TheManInFrontOfTheMan to the queen Halis Morab. Kahab stole Halis Morab from the surface world as an infant, raised her as tyrant and lied to Morab her entire life that she, like the mole people, would die in the sunlight. All the thousands upon thousands of people the mole men have slaughtered and enslaved ultimately go back to Kahab, and when Halis Morab repents, Kahab orders her assassinated and the rebelling slaves all killed. Independent of his role of the Queen's "advisor," Kahab kills his own men and has Maciste's tortured with a red hot poker.

* ''Film/HerculesAgainstTheMoonMen'': [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Queen Samara]], allying with the evil Moon Men and their leader Redolphis, plots to help them destroy most of the world for her own benefit. Sending countless innocents to the Mountain of Doom to be [[HumanSacrifice sacrificed]], Samara gathers up numerous [[WouldHurtAChild children]] to be sacrificed in hopes someone's special blood can revive the queen of the Moon Men, coupled with [[BadBoss having even loyal soldiers killed]], even if they survive a battle with Maciste.

* ''Mole Men vs the Son of Hercules'' (1961): Kahab, HighPriest of the mole men, is TheManInFrontOfTheMan to the queen Halis Morab. Kahab stole Halis Morab from the surface world as an infant, raised her as tyrant and lied to Morab her entire life that she, like the mole people, would die in the sunlight. All the thousands upon thousands of people the mole men have slaughtered ultimately go back to Kahab, and when Halis Morab repents, Kahab orders her assassinated and the rebelling slaves all killed. Independent of his role of the Queen's "advisor," Kahab kills his own men and has Maciste's tortured with a red hot poker.