An attractive American anthropology student is in Indonesia writing her thesis on the native legend of the South Sea Queen, an evil demon who lived in a castle by the sea, seducing and killing the local men. While at the library she meets a mysterious man who gives her a book on where to find the ruins of the castle, but warns her to stay away for her own good. Naturally, she does not listen, and it is not long before she is possessed by the spirit of the South Sea Queen, becoming an indestructible monster with a thirst for mass murder. Helmed by schlockmeister H. Tjut Djalil (listed here as Jalil Jackson), known for his wild and weird horror movies like Mystics in Bali, Lady Terminator, while definitely not without a healthy dose of weirdness (during sex, an eel emerges from the Queen's vagina to bite off her partner's genitals), is more of a straightforward eighties action movie when compared to his other work. Despite being a bit more toned down in the weird department, Lady Terminator still delivers. The action is high octane, and definitely far more ridiculous and bombastic than what was being made in the States at the time, there is plenty of cheesy humor (including a stoner mercenary), numerous bizarre lapses in logic (why is American working for the Indonesian police?), hamstrung melodrama, musclebound mustachioed heroes, and generous nudity. It is a lot of fun, but not as fun as I had hoped. Maybe I have become a bit too desensitized to this kind of cinema.
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