Editing Ator (section)

=== ''Iron Warrior'' ===
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Joe D'Amato dropped ''Ator'' in 1986, around the same time when it became public knowledge that there were no plans to make a third ''Conan'' film. Instead, in 1987, a new director, Alfonso Brescia, wrote and directed the third ''Ator'' film, ''Iron Warrior'', which follows the same loose plot as ''Ator 2 – L'invincibile Orion''. The film abandons the continuity of the first two films (even so far as to completely contradict Ator's established back-story of having been adopted as a baby, instead opening with him playing as a child with a twin brother). Brescia turns the film into an [[art film|art house]] picture, utilizing a variety of cinematic techniques and camera tricks to act as symbols or give deeper meaning to the film. Ator's character is also drastically changed: here, he has black hair in a ponytail, and speaks roughly 50 words in the entire film.

The film pays homage to a number of popular films from the time, including the first ''[[Superman (1978 film)|Superman]]'' film, ''[[Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom]]'', ''[[Excalibur (film)|Excalibur]]'', and ''[[Raiders of the Lost Ark]]''. The film's score is, as with the first of the series, provided by Carlo Maria Cordio - one of his themes for the film is a simple reworking of a very similar cue heard throughout Joe D'Amato's 1981 film [[Absurd (film)|''Absurd'']] (also scored by Cordio).