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Lady Terminator
Lady Terminator
	VHS cover
Directed by	Tjut Djalil; (as Jalil Jackson)
Written by	Karr Kruinowz
Produced by	Ram Soraya
Starring	Barbara Anne Constable; Christopher J. Hart; Claudia A. Rademaker; Fortunella; Ikang Fawzi; Adam Stardust;
Cinematography	Chu Chu Suteja
Music by	Ricky Brothers
Production; companies	108 Sound Studio; Soraya Intercine Film PT;
Distributed by	Studio Entertainment Distribution
Release date	1988;
Running time	84 minutes; (original cut); 80 or 82 minutes; (edited cut);
Country	Indonesia
Language	English

Lady Terminator (Indonesian: Pembalasan Ratu Pantai Selatan, lit. 'Revenge of the South Sea Queen') is a 1988 Indonesian horror-fantasy action film directed by Tjut Djalil,^[3] 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.^[4]^[1]

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.^[5]^[6]^[2]

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."^[7] 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".^[8]

Kyle Anderson of Nerdist wrote that the "movie isn’t good, but it’s totally worth watching because of how baffling it is".^[1]

Home media

The film was originally released on VHS in 1989. The film was released on DVD in 2004 by Mondo Macabro.^[4]^[9]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Kyle Anderson (1 July 2015). "Schlock & Awe: LADY TERMINATOR". Nerdist. Archived from the original on 25 June 2018. Retrieved 25 June 2017.
^ ^a ^b "Lady Terminator". Offscreen Film Festival. Archived from the original on 25 June 2017. Retrieved 25 June 2017.
^ Landon Palmer (15 September 2013). "Movie Houses of Worship: The Indiana University Cinema". Film School Rejects. Retrieved 25 June 2017.
^ ^a ^b "Lady Terminator (Review)". HorrorSociety. 19 May 2013. Retrieved 25 June 2017.
^ ""Lady Terminator" Speaks! The First-Ever Interview with Barbara Anne Constable". Damn That Ojeda!. 23 June 2010. Retrieved 25 June 2017.
^ "Lady Terminator". Belfast Film Festival. Archived from the original on 25 June 2017. Retrieved 25 June 2017.
^ Lor. 1991.
^ Cliff Doerksen. "Lady Terminator". Chicago Reader. Archived from the original on 25 June 2017. Retrieved 25 June 2017.
^ "Mondo Macabro - Lady Terminator". Mondo Macabro. Retrieved 25 June 2017.

Sources

Lor. (1991). Variety's Film Reviews 1989-1990. Vol. 21. R. R. Bowker. There are no page numbers in this book. This entry is found under the header "June 14, 1989". ISBN 0-8352-3089-9.