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This capsule review was originally written and published (in an actual newspaper - remember those?) in August, 1993, when this film was released/dumped on home video in Canada by Astral Video:

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George Segal must've been on vacation (or lost) in Russia when he made this hooter-heavy exercise in medieval nonsense. As the only cast member not dubbed, Segal plays this widower who protects his neighbourhood mystic (Tamara Tana) from a bunch of barbaric villagers convinced she murdered a virgin at the annual Summer Moon Sex Picnic. Though the box sells it like a family-save adventure movie, The Clearing earns an R-rating for some serious skin and violence. That said, it's still kinda neat.