Lady Terminator (1989)

Why so much hype?

hyped garbage

Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast

This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

A hilariously awful Indonesian film which sloppily mixes together a plot involving the old Indonesian legend of the "South Seas Queen" with a scene-for-scene rip-off of THE TERMINATOR, focusing on the violent action aspects of the tale but without any imagination or skill that James Cameron brought to the original movie. I always get a kick out of watching these films produced in countries where no copyright laws exist, and NASTY HUNTER is one of the most explicit, no-holds-barred rip-offs of all time. Just about every memorable sequence in THE TERMINATOR is ripped off here with few or little changes.However, the film begins at first in typical Indonesian bizarre territory. Set one hundred years ago, we watch incredulously as the South Seas Queen is satisfied by her 100th lover, who then proceeds to rip an eel out of her privates (!). The eel, it is revealed, is her source of black magic power and destroying it banishes her to the depths of the ocean. Of course, in present times she returns, possessing a woman with the same eel (an act shown in typically graphic detail), and goes around castrating men in lots of gratuitously violent scenes with spurting blood all over. The police, of course, are at a loss, blaming "a small animal" for the deaths! Now, this alone would be enough plot for your average foreign B-movie, but then the film suddenly becomes a TERMINATOR rip-off and the real fun begins.The first scene sees the naked killer rising from the ocean to attack, kill and strip a couple of drunks for their clothes. She then proceeds to enter a nightclub and massacre most of the patrons in a sequence which copies THE TERMINATOR scene-for-scene (the action, the characters, the blasting through a window, even the twitching fingers are all there). One character even says "come with me if you want to live"! From then on, the various car chases and shootings are all the same, plus a hilarious rehash of the police station massacre except this time it takes place at an army base instead (?). The over-the-top finale replaces the expensive metal skeleton that Arnie turned into with a hideous zombie creature which shoots red laser beams from its eyes to kill people, and is finally destroyed with a glowing blue dagger which causes it to be electrocuted. No, I had no idea about that either, but it sure is fun to watch.Of course, the production values are rock bottom, the editing sloppy, and the dubbing appalling. The acting is non-existent, just wooden, with the lead actress also doubling as the make-up artist! But with so much insanity going on you just can't help but love this movie. Other ingredients that I forgot to mention include: lashings of gore and sex; plenty of nudity; thousands of rounds being fired in the action sequences but the characters rarely having to reload; about a dozen large explosions of vehicles and scenery; a helicopter firing missiles at a car but failing to destroy it; a tidal wave inexplicably destroying a sailing boat; bizarre slow-motion deaths; a mystic with a glowing green power ball; a scene where the killer cuts out her eyeball, washes it under a tap and then replaces it (!); a tank called in to destroy the menace; and more cheesy special effects and makeups than you can shake a stick at. NASTY HUNTER may be an appalling rip-off, but it offers up more entertainment value than a hundred cheap, boring, western-made B-movies, and has to be seen to be believed.

Lady Terminator (1989) ** 1/2 (out of 4)Indonesian rip-off of the James Cameron has a sea goddess using her "female parts" to cut off "male parts" but one brave man stands up to her, pulls the snake out of her vagina, which then turns into a knife and kills her. She swears vengeance on his great, great granddaughter. Flash-forward one hundred years and the unstoppable killing machine will stop at nothing to get the woman.LADY TERMINATOR is a really, really awful movie on so many levels but thankfully it's so incredibly nuts that you can't help but have a great time with it. If you're looking for a more quality type of film then this here certainly isn't going to be your cup of tea because everything here is pretty bad from some insane dialogue to the laughable story and lets not even get into some of the various issues with the actual ripping off of the Cameron movie.It's interesting to note just how much here is actually ripped off. I mean, not only do we get lines like "Come with me if you want to live" but entire sequences are ripped off from the Cameron movie. It's clear that the filmmakers here didn't care and that their end result seemed to be just making sure this movie was more violent than Cameron's. The action scenes here contain all sorts of gunfire and explosions but the amount of blood on display is just great fun for those who enjoy such things. One simple bullet leads to a gallon of blood being sprayed. Not only that but we get some of the weirdest sex scenes that lead to various men's body parts being removed.If you're looking for great performances then you had better look elsewhere. With that said, Barbara Anne Constable plays the villain and she's actually quite good in the part. Not to mention she offers up a lot of nude scenes to add to the exploitation and we all know that this here is never a bad thing. The dialogue itself is beyond awful and it too gets a lot of laughs. LADY TERMINATOR isn't a movie that was made to win Oscars. It's a crazy, non-stop violent and downright silly rip-off that manages to be quite entertaining.

Lady Terminator is one of those movies that are so bad you find them great after watching it. The film is full of goofs, nonsense dialogs, bloody shoot outs, crazy car chases, 80's music & fashion, mythology, explicit sex, nudity....I saw it at the International Sitges Film Festival in 2004 and the whole cinema went nuts with Lady Terminator clapping and making fun of the scenes. If you want to have a really good time watch it with friends and make it a double program along Virgins From Hell (another flick gem from Indonesia).

lady Terminator is only about and hour of film recycled and put into a movie. They really did not even effectively copy terminator, and they had this part where she cuts her eye out, washes it, and puts it back in just to copy the scharzenager blockbuster. the editing on this film is the worst I have ever seen and makes me very sad.