***SPOILERS*** "Lady Terminator" (aka. "Pembalasan ratu pantai selatan") of 1988 is a wonderful Trash flick that is both hilariously inept and outrageously entertaining and awesome. The film is basically the epitome of Trash-cinema - of what we love about trash-cinema, that is. "Lady Terminator" shamelessly plagiarizes whole parts of the 1984 classic "The Terminator" and it does not make the slightest attempt to hide this plagiarism. And it does so in a manner that is impossible not to love for a fan of cult-cinema. The film already begins oddly, with an odd quote, and a bizarre 'South Sea Queen' (a sort of evil deity/witch) who kills her lovers during sex in a quite... unorthodox manner. Her 100th husband, however, manages to break her spell by giving her an orgasm and pulling a snake (!) out of her vagina. The evil Queen then vows to take revenge on his great-great-granddaughter, before walking to the bottom of the sea for a hundred years... (Awesomely) Odd enough, and all this happens before the film even really begins. One hundred years later, a sexy anthropology student named Tania (Barbara Anne Constable) decides to travel to the place in the sea, where the South Sea Queen is supposed to reside - and is subsequently turned into an indestructible killing machine with the sole purpose of killing the great-great-granddaughter, who happens to be a sexy bar-singer...
The film's storyline is extremely odd, to say at least, and this oddity, as well as the absolutely delightful trashiness. The film is so obviously ripping off "The Terminator" that one could easily call it plagiarism - but so what? Which film would be a better model for rip-offs than the 1984 cult classic, and what would be a greater rip-off than this gem of trash-cinema. The film includes extreme bloodshed and everything else one would desire in a trash flick - sleaze, gore, odd dialogue, weird characters, delightfully inept performances and an enormous amount of camp cult material. Lady Terminator mows down hundreds of people with Machine Guns throughout the film. Funnily, the access to fully automatic weapons is quite easy in the film (in Indonesia Uzis seem to be the standard equipment of every hotel clerk. When not massacring people in places like malls or police stations, the lethal lady (Barbara Ann Constable) kills people by squashing their willies during sex, and does quite about everything that Arnold Schwarzenegger did in "Terminator" (including a self-inflicted eye-operation, and for no apparent reason). The actions taken by everybody else are completely illogical (in the beginning, for example, an elderly man gives Tanja a book that describes the way to the South Sea Queen's residence - even though he is aware of what will happen). Besides Barbara Ann Constable, Claudia Angelique Rademaker makes another nice female lead as the target Erica, the sexy bar singer. The terrible 80s hairstyles even increase the wonderfully trashy 80s flair. Among other odd characters, "Lady Terminator" also features a guy with the ugliest mullet ever caught on screen. Overall, "Lady Terminator" is positively one of the stupidest films ever - and one of the most immensely entertaining at the same time. No lover of Exploitation/Trash/Cult-cinema should miss this gem of camp extravaganza!
The film's storyline is extremely odd, to say at least, and this oddity, as well as the absolutely delightful trashiness. The film is so obviously ripping off "The Terminator" that one could easily call it plagiarism - but so what? Which film would be a better model for rip-offs than the 1984 cult classic, and what would be a greater rip-off than this gem of trash-cinema. The film includes extreme bloodshed and everything else one would desire in a trash flick - sleaze, gore, odd dialogue, weird characters, delightfully inept performances and an enormous amount of camp cult material. Lady Terminator mows down hundreds of people with Machine Guns throughout the film. Funnily, the access to fully automatic weapons is quite easy in the film (in Indonesia Uzis seem to be the standard equipment of every hotel clerk. When not massacring people in places like malls or police stations, the lethal lady (Barbara Ann Constable) kills people by squashing their willies during sex, and does quite about everything that Arnold Schwarzenegger did in "Terminator" (including a self-inflicted eye-operation, and for no apparent reason). The actions taken by everybody else are completely illogical (in the beginning, for example, an elderly man gives Tanja a book that describes the way to the South Sea Queen's residence - even though he is aware of what will happen). Besides Barbara Ann Constable, Claudia Angelique Rademaker makes another nice female lead as the target Erica, the sexy bar singer. The terrible 80s hairstyles even increase the wonderfully trashy 80s flair. Among other odd characters, "Lady Terminator" also features a guy with the ugliest mullet ever caught on screen. Overall, "Lady Terminator" is positively one of the stupidest films ever - and one of the most immensely entertaining at the same time. No lover of Exploitation/Trash/Cult-cinema should miss this gem of camp extravaganza!