First she mates… then she terminates! The spirit of an ancient goddess possesses the body of a young anthropologist, who then goes on a murderous rampage. The film is a cocktail of violence and not too graphic sleaze with a strange mixture of Indonesian culture - the legend of the South Seas Queen - and inspiration from James Cameron’s hit The Terminator. From the 1970s through the early 1990s Indonesia experienced an economic boom leading to a relaxation of censorship in popular entertainment, resulting in an explosion of low budget exploitation flicks, some made with foreign distribution in mind. Imitating trends then prevalent in Hollywood yet fashioned with themes and motifs unique to their own culture, Indonesian filmmakers created some undeniably strange movies of which Lady Terminator is perhaps the best known.
