Lady Terminator (1989) ** 1/2 (out of 4)Indonesian rip-off of the James Cameron has a sea goddess using her "female parts" to cut off "male parts" but one brave man stands up to her, pulls the snake out of her vagina, which then turns into a knife and kills her. She swears vengeance on his great, great granddaughter. Flash-forward one hundred years and the unstoppable killing machine will stop at nothing to get the woman.LADY TERMINATOR is a really, really awful movie on so many levels but thankfully it's so incredibly nuts that you can't help but have a great time with it. If you're looking for a more quality type of film then this here certainly isn't going to be your cup of tea because everything here is pretty bad from some insane dialogue to the laughable story and lets not even get into some of the various issues with the actual ripping off of the Cameron movie.It's interesting to note just how much here is actually ripped off. I mean, not only do we get lines like "Come with me if you want to live" but entire sequences are ripped off from the Cameron movie. It's clear that the filmmakers here didn't care and that their end result seemed to be just making sure this movie was more violent than Cameron's. The action scenes here contain all sorts of gunfire and explosions but the amount of blood on display is just great fun for those who enjoy such things. One simple bullet leads to a gallon of blood being sprayed. Not only that but we get some of the weirdest sex scenes that lead to various men's body parts being removed.If you're looking for great performances then you had better look elsewhere. With that said, Barbara Anne Constable plays the villain and she's actually quite good in the part. Not to mention she offers up a lot of nude scenes to add to the exploitation and we all know that this here is never a bad thing. The dialogue itself is beyond awful and it too gets a lot of laughs. LADY TERMINATOR isn't a movie that was made to win Oscars. It's a crazy, non-stop violent and downright silly rip-off that manages to be quite entertaining.

***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!

As the title suggests, Lady Terminator takes influence from the eighties classic 'The Terminator'. Successful American films often get cheap rip off versions made, but what is surprising about this one is just how much it shamelessly steals from James Cameron's famous film. It's not just the central premise - the thievery even goes down to whole scenes being taken and even certain mannerisms of the leading character! Still...considering the quality of this film, I can't see James Cameron caring too much about it! Lady Terminator really is a terrible film; but it's also great fun for all the same reasons. The build up to the Terminator-style plot takes influence from any number of films in which powerful people come back to haunt later generations of a certain family. In this case it's the Sea Queen; a woman who uses an eel to brutally kill any man who can't satisfy her. When one man thwarts her, she swears vengeance on his great granddaughter. Enter Tania Wilson: an Anthropology student who stumbles on the old lair of the Sea Queen while doing research and comes back as an unstoppable female in a leather jacket! Lady Terminator really is pure trash, but at least its entertaining trash and there's certainly no shortage of gun fights, car chases and gory deaths. Pretty much everything in the film comes off as being stupid; nothing more so than Barbara Anne Constable in the lead role. She looks quite cool walking round in her leather jacket and trousers; but the image of her with a machine gun blasting everyone Arnie style is hard not to giggle at. There's some great dialogue in the film, and every now and again there's a little exchange or event that is sure to make the right kind of people erupt with laughter. There's also a fair amount of sex thrown into the mix too; though it seems to be clear that the director wanted to focus more on the action. It won't be hard to guess where the plot is going for anyone who has seen The Terminator; but that's not a big problem as where the plot is going isn't half as important as how it's getting there. The final ten minutes are a real blast, and the last thing that Lady Terminator rips off The Terminator is the best! Overall, this is definitely stupid crap - but its awesome stupid crap and comes recommended to the right kind of people!

Okay, the plot of this movie is silly. Essentially, there was a South Seas Queen who laid a curse on the only guy who gave her good sex, that in a hundred years, she would hunt down his great granddaughter.Flash forward to present day, an American Anthropologist babe with a squeaky voice has a cursed eel crawl up... well, you just have to see it to believe it. The eel turns her into a sexy killing machine impervious to bullets and plot logic. She hunts down the descendant of her enemy, a hot babe rock star.What follows are a bunch of scenes that directly copy the original Terminator movie, including 1) A shootout at a disco, 2) A car chase 3) a shootout at a police station 4) another car chase 5) A scene where the terminator removes her own eye with an exacto knife 6)a sex scene between the hero and the heroine and 7) a big shootout finale where the terminator is "killed", only to arise from the burning wreck. The action scenes are beyond ludicrous, on a couple of occasions they are clearly blowing up model planes and trucks.The dialog is incredibly bad, leaving one to the conclusion that the writers didn't speak English very well, and none of the actors involved cared enough to correct them when babbling this nonsense.Not to say this movie is without its redeeming values. There are a lot of gratuitous rated R sex scenes and the thing is so corny you have to laugh at it. The opening credits are unintentionally funny.