15 Mindless Action Films You Must See Before You Die

The late, great Roddy Piper is Sam Hell, a post-nuke protagonist in the Mad Max mould (and one of the world’s last fertile men) who gets conned into participating in an unusual search and rescue mission.

A group of fertile women have been kidnapped and are being held to ransom in Frogtown, a section of wasteland that only a frog-headed mutant would call home. “We’re gonna get ‘em out,” Dr Sandahl Bergman informs him, “and you’re gonna get ‘em pregnant.”

Throw in some chainsaw-wielding frogs, add a few zingers (“Eat lead, froggies!”), mix with “The dance of the three snakes” (which has to be seen to be believed) and you have an amusing b-movie tailor made for beer o’clock. It’s just a shame that the sequels, which include the brilliantly titled The Toad Warrior, aren’t up to much.