Sequel and Cancelled Project
A follow-on film, Barbarian Queen II: The Empress Strikes Back was billed as a sequel, when in actuality neither the plot nor the characters has anything to do with the original Barbarian Queen, other than casting Lana Clarkson in the title role and having multiple scenes in which she is bound naked to a rack and tortured, in a nod to the original film's impact scene.
Because there was no other big-ticket "sword and sandal" film to create buzz for the genre, Barbarian Queen II went straight to video. Despite grass-roots pressure to produce a third installment, the film would not be made due to a lack of financial backing and the untimely death of Lana Clarkson due to a fatal gunshot to the head in the home of Phil Spector, who was convicted of murder.
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