Lady Terminator
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{{Infobox film
| name = Lady Terminator
| image = File:Lady Terminator (1989) VHS cover.jpg
| caption = VHS cover
| director = Tjut Djalil
(as Jalil Jackson)
| producer = Ram Soraya
| writer = Karr Kruinowz
| starring = {{Plainlist|
- Barbara Anne Constable
- Christopher J. Hart
- Claudia A. Rademaker
- Fortunella
- Ikang Fawzi
- Adam Stardust
}}
| music = Ricky Brothers
| cinematography = Chu Chu Suteja
| studio = {{Plainlist|
- 108 Sound Studio
- Soraya Intercine Film PT
}}
| distributor = Studio Entertainment Distribution
| released = {{Film date|1988}}
| runtime = {{Plainlist|
}}
| country = Indonesia
| language = English
| budget =
}}
Lady Terminator ({{langx|id|Pembalasan Ratu Pantai Selatan|lit=Revenge of the South Sea Queen}}) is a 1988 Indonesian horror-fantasy action film directed by Tjut Djalil,{{cite web|url=https://filmschoolrejects.com/movie-houses-of-worship-the-indiana-university-cinema-a325ff48064a/|title=Movie Houses of Worship: The Indiana University Cinema|date=15 September 2013|author=Landon Palmer|website=Film School Rejects|access-date=25 June 2017}} also credited under the pseudonym of Jalil Jackson. The film stars Barbara Anne Constable, Christopher J. Hart, and Claudia Angelique Rademaker, and is considered to be a mockbuster of the 1984 American film The Terminator.{{cite web|url=https://www.horrorsociety.com/2013/05/19/lady-terminator-review/|title=Lady Terminator (Review)|date=19 May 2013|website=HorrorSociety|access-date=25 June 2017}}{{cite web|url=http://nerdist.com/schlock-awe-lady-terminator/|title=Schlock & Awe: LADY TERMINATOR|website=Nerdist|date=1 July 2015|author=Kyle Anderson|access-date=25 June 2017|archive-date=25 June 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180625105301/https://nerdist.com/schlock-awe-lady-terminator/|url-status=dead}}
Plot
The Queen of the South Sea, an ancient sex goddess, seduces men before using a serpent that resides in her vagina to devour their penises. One man manages to grab the serpent, which turns into a dagger. Enraged, the Queen curses the man's would-be great granddaughter. In 1989, an anthropologist named Tania is investigating the legend of the Queen of the South Sea, which results in her diving to the Queen's resting place, being bound to a bed, her hands and legs spread wide apart and a serpent penetrating in her vagina, which allows the Queen to take control of her.
Tania goes on a rampage, massacring civilians in a nightclub and pursuing the descendant of the man, an aspiring pop star named Erica. A New York detective named Max McNeil investigates the murders and meets Erica. Tania attacks the police headquarters, shooting and killing numerous officers. After escaping the grip of Tania, McNeil and Erica have sex in a forest. Tania tracks them down and is eventually burned in a car explosion. She continues to pursue Erica, who eventually stabs her with the dagger her great-grandfather passed down to her, destroying Tania for good.
Cast
- Barbara Anne Constable as Tania Wilson/Lady Terminator
- Christopher J. Hart as Max McNeil
- Claudia Angelique Rademaker as Erica
- Ikang Fawzi as Tom
Release
The film was released in Indonesia in 1988 and in the United States on June 10, 1989. In recent years, the film was screened at the Toronto Underground Film Festival in 2010, the Belfast Film Festival in Ireland in 2014, and at the Offscreen Film Festival in Belgium in 2017.{{cite web|url=https://damnthatojeda.wordpress.com/2010/06/23/lady-terminator-speaks-the-first-ever-interview-with-barbara-anne-constable/|title="Lady Terminator" Speaks! The First-Ever Interview with Barbara Anne Constable|date=23 June 2010|website=Damn That Ojeda!|access-date=25 June 2017}}{{cite web|url=https://belfastfilmfestival.org/films/lady-terminator|title=Lady Terminator|website=Belfast Film Festival|access-date=25 June 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170625214628/https://belfastfilmfestival.org/films/lady-terminator|archive-date=25 June 2017}}{{cite web|url=http://www.offscreen.be/en/offscreen-film-festival-2017/indonesian-action-cinema/lady-terminator|title=Lady Terminator|website=Offscreen Film Festival|access-date=25 June 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170625214912/http://www.offscreen.be/en/offscreen-film-festival-2017/indonesian-action-cinema/lady-terminator|archive-date=25 June 2017}}
Critical reception
From contemporary reviews, "Lor." of Variety declared that the film "provides mainly camp and novelty value in its mixture of grotesque situations and laughable dialogue" while noting that "action scenes are okay, but visual effects are subpar."{{sfn|Lor.|1991}} Cliff Doerksen of The Chicago Reader called the film "the kind of movie best randomly discovered on cable at 4 AM, but if you dig guys with mullets, director H. Tjut Djalil has some serious treats in store for you".{{cite web|url=https://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/lady-terminator/Film?oid=1057456|title=Lady Terminator|author=Cliff Doerksen|website=Chicago Reader|access-date=25 June 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170625214054/https://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/lady-terminator/Film?oid=1057456|archive-date=25 June 2017}}
Kyle Anderson of Nerdist wrote that the "movie isn’t good, but it’s totally worth watching because of how baffling it is".
Home media
The film was originally released on VHS in 1989. The film was released on DVD in 2004 by Mondo Macabro.{{cite web|url=http://mondomacabro.bigcartel.com/product/lady-terminator|title=Mondo Macabro - Lady Terminator|website=Mondo Macabro|access-date=25 June 2017}}
References
{{reflist}}
=Sources=
- {{cite book|title=Variety's Film Reviews 1989-1990|volume=21|publisher=R. R. Bowker|isbn=0-8352-3089-9|year=1991|at=There are no page numbers in this book. This entry is found under the header "June 14, 1989"|author=Lor.}}
External links
- {{IMDb title|0095483}}
- [https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/lady_terminator/ Lady Terminator] on Rotten Tomatoes
{{Tjut Djalil}}
Category:English-language Indonesian films
Category:1980s Indonesian-language films
Category:Films shot in Indonesia
Category:Indonesian horror films
Category:1980s English-language films
Category:English-language horror films
Category:English-language action thriller films