The Lady Terminator looks so good in leather you’ll cheer out loud when she shoots men in the crotch! Great big stupid fun of the first order, this lurid Indonesian Terminator rip-off features a vengeful goddess who kills men with her snatch. Sometimes words cannot fully express how wonderfully batshit crazy and fun this film is. A trash film so strange and wonderful that you may laugh and cry at the fact that someone made a movie just for us! This is just the sort of crazy WTF movie that is perfect with a group of a couple hundred of your closest friends cracking wise.
“I am not a lady! I am an anthropologist!” says Tania (a very committed Barbara Ann Constable) or at least that’s the flimsy premise given this film. Soon after she becomes possessed by the spirit of the south sea goddess, when a poorly animated eel goes up her cooch! She becomes the incarnation of the South Sea Queen, riding a man until the eel in her vag bites off his dick, and he “comes” to a bloody end.
(I guess anthropologist terminator just didn’t have the same ring to it!) Tania becomes a killing machine, a Nasty Hunter (Film’s alternate title) who shoots at men’s junk. The power of the South sea Goddess makes her invincible, like a terminator, and she arrives naked, attacks a police station, even has a gratuitous eyeball removal scene, to name just a few of the similarities. But these shameless scene-by-scene rip-offs of the original Terminator do nothing but make an audience love this misbegotten bad puppy of a movie all the more.
Everything that you look for in a trash film is present here, in spades. Incredibly high body count, check. Ridiculous 80s fashion, and poofy poodle hair-dos, check. Unlikely Anglo characters in the middle of a foreign country, check. A disco scene, guns, blood, boobs, chase scenes, crashes, explosions, shoot-outs at the mall? Check check check check check check check check. On display is some jaw-droppingly bad amateur acting reinforced with slightly off dubbing. With a suitably cheesarific synth soundtrack and wonderful dramatic lighting with creepy green lights and a fog machine, it’s like some kind of 80s video gone horribly wrong.
It’s not nearly the only film of it’s type, but a sterling example. For the trash film fan, it’s as near a perfect product as is imaginable. It captures and celebrates a whole culture/ time/place that no longer exists, the early 80s Indonesian exploitation film industry. If you buy it or rent the DVD, check out the special features which document the brief heyday of Indonesian trash films. Mondo Macabro has done an excellent job, as usual.
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