Amazons is a 1986 Argentine-American fantasy adventure film directed by Alejandro Sessa and starring Penelope Reed, Danitza Kingsley, Joseph Whipp, Ty Randolph, and Jacques Arndt.

[2] The short story is included as part of the series Dossouye, about the real-life female warriors of the West African Kingdom of Dahomey, gathered together in a novel published by Saunders in 2008.

Amazons is an epic story that follows a legendary tribe of warrior women from a mythical time, whose spirits are tied to magical trees.

The amazons are currently being attacked by an army led by the evil king Kalungo, whose magic powers are given by the Weird Ways and the demonic being Balgore.

Not trusting Tshingi not to turn on him, Kalungo tasks his shape-shifting servant Akam to trail the two warriors, make sure they reach the sword, and then kill them.

In the meantime, the amazons mount an attack on Kalungo's castle, but he has the upper hand due to his magic, which the High Priest can only repel for a while with the aid of the Soul Stone.

Pic has bypassed theatrical release [in the US], going straight to video... Story is harder to follow than it should be, with not much dramatic impetus to maintain viewer interest.

Filmmakers, while intent on lining up the most attractive actresses they can, strain credibility by casting two thesps of same approximate age as mother and daughter.