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 Lady Terminator (DVD)
Description: Genre: Action & Adventure / Theatrical Release: 1989 / Director: H. Tjut Djalil. / Actors: Barbara Anne Constable, ... more  Lady Terminator (DVD) ... Christopher J. Hart ... / DVD released 28 September, 2004 at Mondo Macabro / Features of the DVD: Colour, DVD-Video, Widescreen, PALNewest Review: ... a hundred years, Tania, an American anthropologist (we know this because she keeps on telling us that’s what she is) is ... more ... researching the legend of the South Sea Queen. In spite of being warned off by everyone, she persists, and soon enough finds herself possessed. (In all the Indonesian exploitation movies I’ve seen, the person who becomes possessed by the forces of darkness is an American woman, which probably means something.) Now indestructible, she sets off in search of the great-granddaughter, acquiring an Arnie style leather outfit and a whole bunch of guns along the way. She also, for no reason at all, stops off to have sex with...more |
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Lady Terminator (DVD): Beware of the South Sea Queen! (1253 words)
by hogsflesh - written on 03.03.07 (Very useful, 239 readings)
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(This is a review of just the film. There is a region free DVD available from Mondo Macabro which is easy to get hold of, but it doesn’t have a BBFC certificate, so you’ll have to import it.) Terminator’s pretty cool. Couldn’t really be improved on, could it? One of the seminal sci-fi films of the 80s, and the one that really launched Arnold Schwarzenegger as a star. It couldn’t possibly have been done differently, right? Well hang on a minute. What if, instead of Arnie, the terminator was played by a woman? And what if, instead of an unstoppable killing machine from the future, the Terminator was the reincarnation of an evil Indonesian sea ...
