Tanya has barely stepped off her boat when she finds herself magically whisked away to the Queen’s haunted palace and tied spread-eagled to a bed. Here we have Tanya, a college cutie who unwisely journeys to the lair of the evil SSQ, an eighteenth century monarch who’s vowed to wreak vengeance on the offspring of an unfaithful lover. The film is based on the true-life legend of the South Sea Queen, which has inspired quite a few Indonesian exploitation films. Furthermore, a special “video editor” is listed in the opening credits, inviting speculation that LT was re-edited for stateside distribution (which it was, from PEMBALASAN RATU PENTAI SELATAN, or THE REVENGE OF THE SOUTH SEA QUEEN). Yet somehow LADY TERMINATOR slipped through the cracks and wound up with a US video release in 1989, but went out of print almost immediately (I wonder if THE TERMINATOR’S distributors had anything to do with that, seeing as how it’s a blatant rip-off)-it appeared on DVD, however, in 2004. With its gratuitous violence, graphic sex and the fact that it ignores any and all copyright laws, it’s the type of thing domestic distributors nowadays tend to avoid like the clap. The biggest surprise associated with LADY TERMINATOR is that this Indonesian obscurity made it to the US at all. Containing wall-to-wall sex and violence, 1988’s LADY TERMINATOR is a briskly made B-movie perfect for viewers wanting to give their brains a ninety-minute rest.
TERMINATOR BITING THE BULLET MOVIE
A new bad movie classic! What starts out as a fairly typical Eastern sorcery n’ magic yarn somehow mutates into a scene for scene rip-off of THE TERMINATOR.
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