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* BillingDisplacement: Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger is featured more prominently in the posters and the like, despite playing a secondary character. In the French and Italian dubs, ''Kalidor'' is even the movie's title instead of ''Red Sonja''.
* BoxOfficeBomb: Budget, $17.9 million. Box office, $6,948,633. It was released on the same day as ''Film/BackToTheFuture1'', to add insult to injury.
* CastTheRunnerUp: Sandahl Bergman, aka Valeria from ''Film/{{Conan The Barbarian|1982}}'', was initially cast as Sonja, but she decided to play Gedren instead.[[note]]Ironically enough, in the Japanese dub of the film, Creator/KeikoToda voiced both Sonja in this film and Valeria in the dub of ''Film/{{Conan The Barbarian|1982}}''.[[/note]]
* CompletelyDifferentTitle: Known in France as ''Kalidor, la légende du talisman'' ("Kalidor, the Legend of the Talisman"), and as ''Yado'' in Italy (Kalidor's name in this version).
* CreatorKiller: The people who wrote the movie's screenplay, George [=MacDonald=] Fraser and Clive Exton, saw their cinematic careers get liquidated by ''Red Sonja's'' implosion. Fraser wrote one more film, but Exton never worked another film at all and returned to British television, and remained there for the rest of his life. As for director Richard Fleischer, he directed just one more film himself then retired.
* CreatorBacklash: Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger has called this the ''worst'' movie he has ever been in, and joked that he disciplined his children by threatening to make them watch it ten times as punishment if they ever misbehaved, and that it must have worked because his kids never gave him any problems.
* CrossDressingVoices: In the French dub, Prince Tarn is voiced by Belgian voice actress Creator/JackieBerger.
* DivorcedInstallment: Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger was supposed to be playing Conan, as he had appeared in Red Sonja's comic debut. The film however did not have the rights to the name, so he was renamed Kalidor.
* ExecutiveMeddling: Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger was originally supposed to have nothing more than a cameo role, but the producers lost confidence in Creator/BrigitteNielsen to hold the movie solely on her shoulders. Arnold ended up spending several weeks doing what was intended to be a one-week shoot, and later learned that, through clever camera angles and multiple takes, he had been portrayed as the movie's co-star, much to his irritation. [[note]]It has been suggested by some though that the producers had intended to do this from the start as they had originally tried to make a third Conan movie but couldn't get the rights, and that Arnold was actually tricked[[/note]]
* GenreKiller: This movie, along with ''Film/ConanTheDestroyer'', was widely credited with killing the SwordAndSorcery genre in media for quite some time. ''Dragon'' magazine commented, "''Conan the Destroyer'' may have killed the franchise, but this movie put a stake through its heart and stuffed its mouth with garlic."
** Within just a few years after its release, the claim of it killing anything was proven to be completely untrue. SwordAndSorcery movies were being made well into the early 90s en masse and then simply drifted into different themes without much issue. ''Conan The Destroyer'' has been meanwhile rehabilitated and ''Red Sonja'' is simply considered to be a bad, but unoffensive movie.
* MissingTrailerScene: The trailer contains scenes from the prologue that are only briefly seen in flashback; Sonja being left to die in her burning home, getting saved by her dying brother and Gedren speaking to her soldiers and slaves before her disfigurement.
* RomanceOnTheSet: Arnie and Creator/BrigitteNielsen have admitted that during production, they had a very heated affair, which even inspired her to divorce her then-husband, though they opted not to continue once they returned to America, where Arnie had already begun dating Maria Shriver. Nielsen would then meet and marry Creator/SylvesterStallone a few months after the movie's release.
* ScrewedByTheLawyers: Michael Moorcock had his lawyers prevent his famous evil weapon Stormbringer from appearing in the film unauthorised.
* StarDerailingRole: Creator/BrigitteNielsen's critically panned performance, along with her turn in ''Film/RockyIV'' (which led to her getting a Worst New Star award at the Razzies) stalled Hollywood's attempts to launch the model as a film star. She would however enjoy more success in Italy.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Creator/EileenDavidson (then of ''Film/TheHouseOnSororityRow'' and ''Series/TheYoungAndTheRestless'' fame) was the runner-up to play the title role.
* BoxOfficeBomb: Budget, $17.9 million. Box office, $6,948,633. It was released on the same day as ''Film/BackToTheFuture1'', to add insult to injury.
* CastTheRunnerUp: Sandahl Bergman, aka Valeria from ''Film/{{Conan The Barbarian|1982}}'', was initially cast as Sonja, but she decided to play Gedren instead.[[note]]Ironically enough, in the Japanese dub of the film, Creator/KeikoToda voiced both Sonja in this film and Valeria in the dub of ''Film/{{Conan The Barbarian|1982}}''.[[/note]]
* CompletelyDifferentTitle: Known in France as ''Kalidor, la légende du talisman'' ("Kalidor, the Legend of the Talisman"), and as ''Yado'' in Italy (Kalidor's name in this version).
* CreatorKiller: The people who wrote the movie's screenplay, George [=MacDonald=] Fraser and Clive Exton, saw their cinematic careers get liquidated by ''Red Sonja's'' implosion. Fraser wrote one more film, but Exton never worked another film at all and returned to British television, and remained there for the rest of his life. As for director Richard Fleischer, he directed just one more film himself then retired.
* CreatorBacklash: Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger has called this the ''worst'' movie he has ever been in, and joked that he disciplined his children by threatening to make them watch it ten times as punishment if they ever misbehaved, and that it must have worked because his kids never gave him any problems.
* CrossDressingVoices: In the French dub, Prince Tarn is voiced by Belgian voice actress Creator/JackieBerger.
* DivorcedInstallment: Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger was supposed to be playing Conan, as he had appeared in Red Sonja's comic debut. The film however did not have the rights to the name, so he was renamed Kalidor.
* ExecutiveMeddling: Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger was originally supposed to have nothing more than a cameo role, but the producers lost confidence in Creator/BrigitteNielsen to hold the movie solely on her shoulders. Arnold ended up spending several weeks doing what was intended to be a one-week shoot, and later learned that, through clever camera angles and multiple takes, he had been portrayed as the movie's co-star, much to his irritation. [[note]]It has been suggested by some though that the producers had intended to do this from the start as they had originally tried to make a third Conan movie but couldn't get the rights, and that Arnold was actually tricked[[/note]]
* GenreKiller: This movie, along with ''Film/ConanTheDestroyer'', was widely credited with killing the SwordAndSorcery genre in media for quite some time. ''Dragon'' magazine commented, "''Conan the Destroyer'' may have killed the franchise, but this movie put a stake through its heart and stuffed its mouth with garlic."
** Within just a few years after its release, the claim of it killing anything was proven to be completely untrue. SwordAndSorcery movies were being made well into the early 90s en masse and then simply drifted into different themes without much issue. ''Conan The Destroyer'' has been meanwhile rehabilitated and ''Red Sonja'' is simply considered to be a bad, but unoffensive movie.
* MissingTrailerScene: The trailer contains scenes from the prologue that are only briefly seen in flashback; Sonja being left to die in her burning home, getting saved by her dying brother and Gedren speaking to her soldiers and slaves before her disfigurement.
* RomanceOnTheSet: Arnie and Creator/BrigitteNielsen have admitted that during production, they had a very heated affair, which even inspired her to divorce her then-husband, though they opted not to continue once they returned to America, where Arnie had already begun dating Maria Shriver. Nielsen would then meet and marry Creator/SylvesterStallone a few months after the movie's release.
* ScrewedByTheLawyers: Michael Moorcock had his lawyers prevent his famous evil weapon Stormbringer from appearing in the film unauthorised.
* StarDerailingRole: Creator/BrigitteNielsen's critically panned performance, along with her turn in ''Film/RockyIV'' (which led to her getting a Worst New Star award at the Razzies) stalled Hollywood's attempts to launch the model as a film star. She would however enjoy more success in Italy.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Creator/EileenDavidson (then of ''Film/TheHouseOnSororityRow'' and ''Series/TheYoungAndTheRestless'' fame) was the runner-up to play the title role.
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* BillingDisplacement: Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger is featured more prominently in the posters and the like, despite playing a secondary character. In the French and Italian dubs, ''Kalidor'' is even the movie's title instead of ''Red Sonja''.
* BoxOfficeBomb: Budget, $17.9 million. Box office, $6,948,633. It was released on the same day as ''Film/BackToTheFuture1'', to add insult to injury.
* CastTheRunnerUp: Sandahl Bergman, aka Valeria from ''Film/{{Conan The Barbarian|1982}}'', was initially cast as Sonja, but she decided to play Gedren instead.[[note]]Ironically enough, in the Japanese dub of the film, Creator/KeikoToda voiced both Sonja in this film and Valeria in the dub of ''Film/{{Conan The Barbarian|1982}}''.[[/note]]
* CompletelyDifferentTitle: Known in France as ''Kalidor, la légende du talisman'' ("Kalidor, the Legend of the Talisman"), and as ''Yado'' in Italy (Kalidor's name in this version).
* CreatorKiller: The people who wrote the movie's screenplay, George [=MacDonald=] Fraser and Clive Exton, saw their cinematic careers get liquidated by ''Red Sonja's'' implosion. Fraser wrote one more film, but Exton never worked another film at all and returned to British television, and remained there for the rest of his life. As for director Richard Fleischer, he directed just one more film himself then retired.
* CreatorBacklash: Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger has called this the ''worst'' movie he has ever been in, and joked that he disciplined his children by threatening to make them watch it ten times as punishment if they ever misbehaved, and that it must have worked because his kids never gave him any problems.
* CrossDressingVoices: In the French dub, Prince Tarn is voiced by Belgian voice actress Creator/JackieBerger.
* DivorcedInstallment: Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger was supposed to be playing Conan, as he had appeared in Red Sonja's comic debut. The film however did not have the rights to the name, so he was renamed Kalidor.
* ExecutiveMeddling: Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger was originally supposed to have nothing more than a cameo role, but the producers lost confidence in Creator/BrigitteNielsen to hold the movie solely on her shoulders. Arnold ended up spending several weeks doing what was intended to be a one-week shoot, and later learned that, through clever camera angles and multiple takes, he had been portrayed as the movie's co-star, much to his irritation. [[note]]It has been suggested by some though that the producers had intended to do this from the start as they had originally tried to make a third Conan movie but couldn't get the rights, and that Arnold was actually tricked[[/note]]
* GenreKiller: This movie, along with ''Film/ConanTheDestroyer'', was widely credited with killing the SwordAndSorcery genre in media for quite some time. ''Dragon'' magazine commented, "''Conan the Destroyer'' may have killed the franchise, but this movie put a stake through its heart and stuffed its mouth with garlic."
** Within just a few years after its release, the claim of it killing anything was proven to be completely untrue. SwordAndSorcery movies were being made well into the early 90s en masse and then simply drifted into different themes without much issue. ''Conan The Destroyer'' has been meanwhile rehabilitated and ''Red Sonja'' is simply considered to be a bad, but unoffensive movie.
* MissingTrailerScene: The trailer contains scenes from the prologue that are only briefly seen in flashback; Sonja being left to die in her burning home, getting saved by her dying brother and Gedren speaking to her soldiers and slaves before her disfigurement.
* RomanceOnTheSet: Arnie and Creator/BrigitteNielsen have admitted that during production, they had a very heated affair, which even inspired her to divorce her then-husband, though they opted not to continue once they returned to America, where Arnie had already begun dating Maria Shriver. Nielsen would then meet and marry Creator/SylvesterStallone a few months after the movie's release.
* ScrewedByTheLawyers: Michael Moorcock had his lawyers prevent his famous evil weapon Stormbringer from appearing in the film unauthorised.
* StarDerailingRole: Creator/BrigitteNielsen's critically panned performance, along with her turn in ''Film/RockyIV'' (which led to her getting a Worst New Star award at the Razzies) stalled Hollywood's attempts to launch the model as a film star. She would however enjoy more success in Italy.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Creator/EileenDavidson (then of ''Film/TheHouseOnSororityRow'' and ''Series/TheYoungAndTheRestless'' fame) was the runner-up to play the title role.See [[Trivia/RedSonja1985 here]].
* BoxOfficeBomb: Budget, $17.9 million. Box office, $6,948,633. It was released on the same day as ''Film/BackToTheFuture1'', to add insult to injury.
* CastTheRunnerUp: Sandahl Bergman, aka Valeria from ''Film/{{Conan The Barbarian|1982}}'', was initially cast as Sonja, but she decided to play Gedren instead.[[note]]Ironically enough, in the Japanese dub of the film, Creator/KeikoToda voiced both Sonja in this film and Valeria in the dub of ''Film/{{Conan The Barbarian|1982}}''.[[/note]]
* CompletelyDifferentTitle: Known in France as ''Kalidor, la légende du talisman'' ("Kalidor, the Legend of the Talisman"), and as ''Yado'' in Italy (Kalidor's name in this version).
* CreatorKiller: The people who wrote the movie's screenplay, George [=MacDonald=] Fraser and Clive Exton, saw their cinematic careers get liquidated by ''Red Sonja's'' implosion. Fraser wrote one more film, but Exton never worked another film at all and returned to British television, and remained there for the rest of his life. As for director Richard Fleischer, he directed just one more film himself then retired.
* CreatorBacklash: Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger has called this the ''worst'' movie he has ever been in, and joked that he disciplined his children by threatening to make them watch it ten times as punishment if they ever misbehaved, and that it must have worked because his kids never gave him any problems.
* CrossDressingVoices: In the French dub, Prince Tarn is voiced by Belgian voice actress Creator/JackieBerger.
* DivorcedInstallment: Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger was supposed to be playing Conan, as he had appeared in Red Sonja's comic debut. The film however did not have the rights to the name, so he was renamed Kalidor.
* ExecutiveMeddling: Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger was originally supposed to have nothing more than a cameo role, but the producers lost confidence in Creator/BrigitteNielsen to hold the movie solely on her shoulders. Arnold ended up spending several weeks doing what was intended to be a one-week shoot, and later learned that, through clever camera angles and multiple takes, he had been portrayed as the movie's co-star, much to his irritation. [[note]]It has been suggested by some though that the producers had intended to do this from the start as they had originally tried to make a third Conan movie but couldn't get the rights, and that Arnold was actually tricked[[/note]]
* GenreKiller: This movie, along with ''Film/ConanTheDestroyer'', was widely credited with killing the SwordAndSorcery genre in media for quite some time. ''Dragon'' magazine commented, "''Conan the Destroyer'' may have killed the franchise, but this movie put a stake through its heart and stuffed its mouth with garlic."
** Within just a few years after its release, the claim of it killing anything was proven to be completely untrue. SwordAndSorcery movies were being made well into the early 90s en masse and then simply drifted into different themes without much issue. ''Conan The Destroyer'' has been meanwhile rehabilitated and ''Red Sonja'' is simply considered to be a bad, but unoffensive movie.
* MissingTrailerScene: The trailer contains scenes from the prologue that are only briefly seen in flashback; Sonja being left to die in her burning home, getting saved by her dying brother and Gedren speaking to her soldiers and slaves before her disfigurement.
* RomanceOnTheSet: Arnie and Creator/BrigitteNielsen have admitted that during production, they had a very heated affair, which even inspired her to divorce her then-husband, though they opted not to continue once they returned to America, where Arnie had already begun dating Maria Shriver. Nielsen would then meet and marry Creator/SylvesterStallone a few months after the movie's release.
* ScrewedByTheLawyers: Michael Moorcock had his lawyers prevent his famous evil weapon Stormbringer from appearing in the film unauthorised.
* StarDerailingRole: Creator/BrigitteNielsen's critically panned performance, along with her turn in ''Film/RockyIV'' (which led to her getting a Worst New Star award at the Razzies) stalled Hollywood's attempts to launch the model as a film star. She would however enjoy more success in Italy.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Creator/EileenDavidson (then of ''Film/TheHouseOnSororityRow'' and ''Series/TheYoungAndTheRestless'' fame) was the runner-up to play the title role.
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* OldShame: Neither Arnie or Creator/BrigitteNielsen find pride in this film. Arnold once claimed he punished his children for misbehaving by making them watch this movie repeatedly.
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* BoxOfficeBomb: Budget, $17.9 million. Box office, $6,948,633. It was released on the same day as ''Film/BackToTheFuture'', to add insult to injury.
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* BoxOfficeBomb: Budget, $17.9 million. Box office, $6,948,633. It was released on the same day as ''Film/BackToTheFuture'', ''Film/BackToTheFuture1'', to add insult to injury.
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* BillingDisplacement: Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger is featured more prominently in the posters and the like, despite playing a secondary character. In the French and Italian dubs, he's even in the movie's title instead of Sonja.
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* BillingDisplacement: Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger is featured more prominently in the posters and the like, despite playing a secondary character. In the French and Italian dubs, he's ''Kalidor'' is even in the movie's title instead of Sonja.''Red Sonja''.
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* CrossDressingVoices: In the French dub, Prince Tarn is voiced by Belgian voice actress Creator/JackieBerger.
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* CreatorsFavorite: Roy Thomas has expressed this about Red Sonja, which is impressive given his involvement in the creation of everyone from Wolverine to Captain Marvel.
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* AuthorsSavingThrow: Roy Thomas claims in an introduction in the first novel that Sonja's vow to only make love to a man who could defeat her but otherwise be chaste is a "conscious, willed thing. It is Sonja who sets the standard, and who will mate with the man who can best her with sword or axe. No rape here, just a set of standards strange to our modern eyes."
* CreatorsFavorite: Roy Thomas has expressed this about RedSonja, which is impressive given his involvement in the creation of everyone from Wolverine to Captain Marvel.Sonja.
* CreatorsFavorite: Roy Thomas has expressed this about Red
