I'll take Flesh+Blood over The Princess Bride, Excalibur or Krull any day of the week. What it lacks in fantasy, it makes up for in savage exploitation.

If you're going into a Paul Verhoeven film expecting romance, you're barking up the wrong tree because what you're going to get in its place is: the plague, corpses dripping fluids on lovers eating mandrake root underneath them, and a band of ferocious lunatics led by Rutger Hauer.

Joining Rutger Hauer are the likes of Brion James, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Susan Tyrrell. None of them are likable, in fact, they're so loathsome that they're difficult to watch...and I wouldn't have it any other way.

Flesh+Blood came out in the heart of the…