From the desk of Shayne

Finally made it through the copy of Lady Terminator that I picked up at the flea market a week or so ago. I’ve got a short attention span / lack of large chunks of spare time, so it usually takes a few sittings for me to make it through any movie or long TV show, but I finally got this one finished up. That was 83 minutes very well spent.

I’m not even going to bother explaining the plot as that is secondary to the main allure, the absolutely appalling quality and sheer ridiculousness of the film. What I thought was just going to be a lousy action film with a few laughable moments ended up being WAY over the top, with really bad production quality to sweeten the deal. It is seriously like if Ed Wood made an ’80s Asian grindcore film. An Indonesian Plan 9 From Outer Space. Yeah, it’s like that! Classic re-use of clips, low-budge special effects, the whole deal. Granted, it is a bit above Plan 9 as far as quality goes, but they came a lot further than THAT in 30 years. This is actually an Indonesian film from 1988 called “Pembalasan ratu pantai selatan,” and I found a trailer where it is also titled Nasty Hunter.

Here’s a clip from YouTube (note the segment where she’s walking with the gun on her shoulder, it is used over and over again):

The fine folks at Mondo Macabro have released Lady Terminator on DVD, so you too can check out a copy for yourself. I’m sure Quentin Tarantino had to have watched this at least a dozen times while preparing Death Proof. Believe me, you’ll see why.