Lady Terminator (1989)

Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

A film with more than the usual spoiler issues. Talking about it in any detail feels akin to handing you a gift-wrapped present and saying, "I hope you like it -- It's a thriller about a diabolical secret experiment."

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

Although this film surely belongs to the realm of "Worst Pictures ever made", it can't really compete with narcolepsy inducing classics such as "Pink Flamingos" or "Eraserhead". Even Ed Woods' creations do a better job of making me feel that hours of my life have been stolen from me. (It certainly feels like hours!) Actually, there are noticeable merits to the film. All the principal actors seem to know how to use firearms! At least they aren't afraid of them. They hold the weapons properly and don't blink when the blanks discharge. Arnold can't even do that. Ditto for all the other major action stars except Steven Segal. Of course, Segal is an actual martial arts master.The dialog is strange, but isn't really funny. It's rather what you might expect from a film which has been dubbed from Indonesian. Subtitles would likely have been a lot funnier. (Subtitles are necessarily shorter - so you have to guess what was left out.) As for the "it's so bad; it's good" - it isn't that bad. So, it's really bad. Even a laugh track couldn't save this film. You've been warned!

okay, the brilliant and talented Ms Judi Faye and I, plus our dogs of TV fame, are watching this piece of crap right now. We agree that the best line in the film is "I'm not a lady! I'm an anthropologist!" We also confirm that Barbara Constable is HOT HOT HOT. Why she isn't in more films when she is so HOT HOT HOT is a complete mystery. She is exceptionally photogenic, despite her peculiar voice (or is she dubbed?) she could have had a wonderful career in film....right now she is about to seduce room service. I hope he can satisfy her, or his tool is toast. Joe, Snake and Tom are the backup cops who rush to the aid of Max as he does his best to defend a pop star hopeful from death at the hands of Ms Constable, now possessed by the evil spirit of the South Sea queen (who, in case you are unaware, has an eel living inside her female reproductive canal, and it bites off the sex organs of the men with whom she has sex, unless they satisfy her, which, 99.9 percent of the time, they don't.)

Well, maybe the Addams Family. Completely, utterly whacked-out combination of cheese, sleaze, gore, sex, blood, explosions, shootouts, hot Asian chicks, mullet-headed stoners driving armored cars, inane dialog, brainless disco songs, guns that never run out of ammunition--all the things that make life worthwhile. Not as polished as your average Hong Kong martial arts / vampire / sorcerer flick, but with just as much if not more energy and sense of fun, intentional or otherwise. An Indonesian evil spirit called the South Seas Queen possesses the body (and not a bad one at that, judging by her frequent and, thankfully, gratuitous nudity) of an attractive Caucasian anthropologist in order to carry out a curse she placed on the great-granddaughter of one of her lovers from 100 years previously, and the possessed hottie, "The Lady Terminator", wipes out half of Jakarta to get at her. No one in their right mind watches movies like this for their story, acting, or comments on the human condition. You watch them to see a lot of shootouts, hot chicks, explosions, hot chicks, gore, hot naked chicks, stupid dialog and hot chicks who get naked while reciting stupid dialog, and this movie delivers all that in spades. "Good" and "bad" don't apply to films like this; they're beyond that kind of simplistic labeling. What they should be judged on is, do they deliver what they promise? And "Lady Terminator" certainly does that and more. You gotta see this one.

This is way fun a lot, I mean a lot of action this is a way cool rip off of the terminator. Now this is a CULT movie so over the top the story the acting and the best part is the violence if you are a fan of campy 80s action movies then check out you will like it.I was so happy with it the DVD is good to also the tagline RULZZ SHE MATES....THEN SHE TERMINATS LOL!!!!!This one needs to go down as a cult classic!!!Also she never runs out of bullets its so aubsurd and she cant die!!she is possessed by the south sea queen?the story is so simple man its just non stop action and the body count is so so high and the last 30 of the film is the best!!Go find this and yes buy its very worth it!!!