Lady Terminator

Lady Terminator (Pembalasan Ratu Pantai Selatan) (1989)

Runtime: The version I saw was 82 minutes long

Directed by: H. Tjut Djalil

Starring: Barbara Ann Constable, Christopher J. Hart, Claudia Angelique Rademaker, Joseph P. McGlynn, ADAM STARDUST

From: This is from Indonesia, explaining how outrageous it is

What I say below is no April Fool joke, none of it: 

NOTE: My high rating is the same as me giving good marks to something like Miami Connection or Samurai Cop... it's for sheer entertainment value and chuzpah, it's not due to legitimate good filmmaking, as there isn't a lot of that in this motion picture.

For at least a few years now I've known of the existence of this film. Last night I finally tracked it down, nevermind how. I heard it was pretty outrageous, and those comments were correct. I am not surprised as it's from a country fertile for such lunacy, that being Indonesia. After all, the plot is that an evil spirit that has sex with men, only for an eel to come out of her hoo-ha and bite off their Johnsons... and she's defeated by a dude, only for her to make the oddly specific decree that she'll return in 100 years to kill his great-granddaughter and from there the rest of the film is the spirit going into the body of a random American woman and she becomes as indestructible as a T-800... this plot is no April Fool's Day joke. Neither is this great-granddaughter being a rising pop star.

It was obvious what they were ripping off; the woman's first appearance after she's possessed, she is completely nude and kills some punks. There are massacres at both a nightclub and the city's police station. Yet the added beats to the story make things crazy... the whole “vagina eel” thing, how can you come up with such a thing? There is plenty of gunfire and explosions for the action fans. This movie is more for them than horror buffs.

To be blunt, several of the main players in the cast are white; obviously they must have tried to make something that would also sell better in the Western market. This includes the lead guy, lead girl... and an amazing dude whose only acting credit was this. He called himself ADAM STARDUST, which made me love him already. He had a small role as one of the weapons expert friends that the lead guy has. The character's name was SNAKE and he was a hilarious-looking dude, with a giant mullet. Best of all, Snake sounds and speaks like he was Jeff Spicoli! Snake going “Awwww, right!” as he thinks he incapacitates the titular Lady Terminator: awesome. I love Snake.

This is another one of those movies better seen than described. You should know already if this will be for you or not.