Definition of "pepla" []

• Plural form of peplum. (noun)

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• "I award extra credit to any movie with a Hell sequence and this one's pretty good, populated as it is with vampires (that's Tom Poston's daughter above, doing the "Time Warp"... er, I mean "The Apple") and dog-faced muscle men and dancers galore in what seems to be a nod to the inferno scenes of HERCULES IN THE HAUNTED WORLD (1964) and other like-minded pepla."
• "The script -- written by a half-dozen old hands at Italian pepla including Ennio De Concini, Sergio Leone, Duccio Tessari and Sergio Corbucci -- plays less like an adaptation of Edward Bulwer-Lytton's novel than a "greatest clichés of the sword-and-sandal genre.""
• "One fact that has particularly been driven home by my little retrospective: while Steve Reeves is certainly the once-and-still-reigning icon of the Italian pepla, almost supernaturally handsome and proportioned and with a wooden style of acting that could almost reflect the otherness of a Greek demigod, the finest actor of all the musclebound myth-makers was Gordon Scott."