The Adventures of Hercules

The Adventures of Hercules Italian Le avventure dellincredibile Ercole, also known as Hercules II, is the 1985 sequel to the 1983 film Hercules. It was written and directed by Luigi Cozzi credited as Lewis Coates in the American release who also directed the previous film, and had Lou Ferrigno reprising his role as the title character. Pino Donaggios music for the first film is reused here in lieu of an original score.

The plot begins with a story about the story of Zeus Seven Mighty Thunderbolts that kept peace. One day, other vengeful gods Aphrodite, Hera, Poseidon, Flora stole these lightning bolts to create chaos. The lack of these thunderbolts has rendered Zeus powerless and sent the Moon on a collision course with the Earth. As the humans on Earth begin to suffer, two sisters named Urania and Glaucia speaks to the Little People and learns that only Hercules can save them now. After hesitation, Zeus finally decides to send Hercules back from the stars to Earth to aid the humans, but the vengeful gods resurrect their own warrior King Minos. They believe that King Minos, with the help of Dedalos Daedalus in the first film, see below, can defeat Zeus with science. Thus begins Hercules quest to find the Seven Mighty Thunderbolts, which are hidden inside monsters across the Universe. Firstly, Hercules fights and defeats an apelike creature and retrieves the first thunderbolt. Meanwhile, the four gods bring King Minos back to life with some help, Hercules also teams up with Glaucia and rescues her sister Urania from hideous monsters called the Slime People. They are overwhelmed by their huge numbers and they flee into a cave where they meet Euryale. The cave is full of stone statues and Hercules and the sisters battle some more monsters, while Euryale walks away and reveals herself to be a snakehaired, halfwoman, halfscorpion Gorgon. Using his shield as a mirror, Hercules avoids getting turned into stone and manages to decapitate Euryale, and retrieves the second thunderbolt. Hercules and the two sisters sail to an island and enter an old, haunted forest with strange human dolls hanging from the trees. He is then attacked by a demonic sorcerer knight but Hercules overwhelms the knight and impales him onto a poison thorn branch, revealing the third thunderbolt. Glaucia is captured by a high priests soldiers to be sacrificed to a deadly fire monster, Urania then rescues her while He

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