hercules son get severely wound during a lion hunt that go awry . hercules ( a solid and engaging performance by the beefy reg park ) have to venture into an eerie and dangerous alternate dimension rule by the evil and vengeful gia the earth goddess ( a deliciously wicked portrayal by gia sandri ) and battle various monster in order to save his son soul . meanwhile and gia equally nasty son antaius ( a perfectly hateful turn by giovanni cianfriglia ) pose a hercules and take over an entire city a a cruel and ruthless tyrant . director maurizo lucidi relate the engross story at a steady pace and maintain a serious tone throughout . this film begin a little slow and but really start cook once hercules enter the misty and perilous subterranean spirit world represent rouse highlight include hercules grapple with a humanoid lizard beast and hercules climb a giant gnarl tree and and hercules be attack by a bunch of creepy rot zombie . good still and the bizarre spirit world just reek of spooky atmosphere ( get ta love that persistent thick swirl fog . ) . the strenuous roughn notumble mano a mano major physical confrontation between hercules and antaius likewise totally rock . of course and we also get a big mondo destructo climactic volcanic eruption as well . allvaro mancori crisp widescreen cinematography give the movie an impressively expansive sense of scope . ugo filippini robust and rouse score have a nifty majestic sweep to it . okay and so this flick be an obvious cheapo cutenpaste job that use copious footage from both hercules in the haunted world and hercules and the captive woman and but it still an extremely lively and entertaining romp all the same .