I have a really fun one for you today. Let's talk about the deranged Indonesian Terminator rip-off known as Lady Terminator from 1989. It's kind of a low budget foreign version of the original movie but with an unstoppable stoic female killer instead of a huge android and instead of a science fiction concept we have some esoteric black magic as part of the plot.
The story revolves around an anthropologist, Tania, who goes to Indonesia in order to find a book, she's investigating an ancient sex goddess known as The Queen of the South Sea. While an old man warns her about the dangers of such relics and the consequences of handling them, she doesn't listen. Tania is soon possessed by the spirit of the goddess and searches for the descendant of the man who defeated her a long time ago.
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| The evil goddess doing her thing. |
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| Pre-possesion Tania. |
This unleashes lot's of shootouts and violent gory murders on her part. Always chasing after her prey with unrelenting conviction and a cold expression on her face.
The rest is the stuff action girls were made for, the shootout sequences are plentiful, high on energy, entertaining and brutal. Most seem to be taken from The Terminator, such as the club shooting and the one in the police station but oddly enough it stands on its own against the original, just with an even lower budget.
Regarding the theme of the blog, I would have been more satisfied if there was some kind of female hero that could balance things out but the hero in this is actually some generic white guy that saves the girl in danger. He was possibly added for market value and to get a wider audience. The "Sarah Connor'' Indonesian girl isn't a bad character but much like Sarah she doesn't get to do much, other than stand around and get saved by the male lead, at least until the end, but this girl never gets to become an action girl like Sarah did in her second entry. The guy and the damsel in distress have a really soapy and pathetic love sequence that's just there to rip off the original.
Just look at the villainess in this bizarre flick, that long curly hair and badass leather outfit really give you the 80's action vibes that you want to get. Also, things get very sexual quite frequently in this picture, heck, the first scene is a sex scene that introduces the powers of the goddess and what she does with men, which is kind of nasty, you have to see it. Anyway, once things get going as a proper Terminator knock off Tania is seen kicking ass frequently and in very solidly choreographed action. I think most action movie fans will enjoy it very much.
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