The Slave and the Torturer, a sequel to Hex Studios’ sword-and-sorcery picture The Slave and the Sorcerer, has been announced, with Miss Megan Tremethick, Mr. Chris Black and Mr. Stephen Kerr returning to the principal company.
The new production continues the earlier film’s excursion into the heroic fantasy associated with the cinema of the nineteen-eighties: a world of rival kingdoms, dark sorcery and creatures whose intentions are seldom benevolent.
A publicity photograph shows Miss Tremethick once more as Nemain, the sorceress. Mr. Black is to return as Tyrol the Slave, with Mr. Kerr, also seen in Spoiling You, resuming the part of Ryhn Grey, a thief whose resourcefulness is not invariably accompanied by scruple. Mr. Richard Pate will again appear as King Gerind.
The Chronicle has previously reported upon Miss Tremethick’s growing audience and screen identity. Nemain affords her a further role within the company’s expanding range of fantastic pictures.
Returning Players and New Adversaries
According to the production announcement supplied to our sister publication, Amicus Horror, Mr. Nick Ford will play a new villain. Mr. Ford also appears in Amicus Productions’ In the Grip of Terror, whose return of the Amicus name to British cinema screens has been reported in these pages.
Mr. Laurence R. Harvey, familiar to audiences of The Human Centipede films, joins the cast alongside other members of the wider British Horror Studio company.
The title invites speculation concerning Arlo the Torturer, played in the original picture by Mr. Lawrie Brewster. The character’s return has not been confirmed. A suggestive title is not, in itself, a cast announcement, though admirers of the first film will doubtless draw their own conclusions.
Support for the Earlier Picture
The original The Slave and the Sorcerer found substantial support through crowdfunding. Its 2023 Kickstarter campaign raised £78,751 from 803 backers.
That response offers some indication of the continuing audience for independently produced heroic fantasy. For comparison, Mr. Steven Kostanski’s Deathstalker campaign raised $95,457 from 592 backers. The campaigns were conducted at different times and in different currencies; the figures should not be treated as a direct financial ranking.
The association between sword-and-sorcery and horror is longstanding. Robert E. Howard, the creator of Conan, corresponded with H. P. Lovecraft, and the two traditions share an interest in ancient powers intruding upon the affairs of men. Hex Studios’ first adventure drew upon that territory as well as upon the more exuberant conventions of eighties fantasy cinema.
A Further Campaign Planned
A Kickstarter campaign for The Slave and the Torturer is currently expected in November 2026. Plans include Blu-ray editions and collectors’ rewards, with particulars to be announced when the campaign opens.
Readers may visit the official Kickstarter pre-launch page for The Slave and the Torturer and select “Notify me on launch” without making a financial pledge.
For the present, the returning cast and the new photograph provide the first indication of the proposed sequel. Its further development will be of interest to those who supported the original and to an audience for whom the sword-and-sorcery picture remains an undiminished pleasure.
Our sister publication, Amicus Horror, also carries Mr. Guthrie’s report on The Slave and the Torturer and its returning players. For further reading, it examines Mr. Brewster’s defence of Deathstalker and the sword-and-sorcery tradition.
Mr. Robert Guthrie
Arts Correspondent to The British Horror Chronicle
