Red Sonja

If someone wants to learn how film franchise can be destroyed, few examples are as telling as the way Italian producer Dino De Laurentiis handled series which had begun with 1982 sword and sorcery epic *Conan the Barbarian*. While the vastly inferior and disappointing 1984 sequel *Conan the Destroyer* was decent in its own right, the last chapter of the original Conan film saga came a year later, in the form of spin…