Lady Terminator

why is describing a movie as dreamlike or using dream logic always some lynchian phantasmy surrealistic horror its nice to see a movie thats dreamlike but its the coolest dream ever

pd187

It's impossible to overstate how satisfying this is as an example of trash cinema. Justly revered as an all-time facemelter.

matt lynch

*man answers phone* "Hello?" LADY TERMINATOR walks into the room and riddles him with bullets. ME: This is cinema.

Justin Decloux

I've heard of poptimism, but just how many people have to die so that one moderately talented new wave singer can live??

Liz

H. Tjut Djalil's best movie and also *in my opinion* the pinnacle of Indonesian exploitation cinema. It takes most of its cues from the James Cameron classic, gives it a regional spin (with nods to South Asian folklore) and amps up the silliness by a factor of 4. Wildly…

Lou (rhymes with wow!)

I've written extensively about why I love knock-off movies. The great ones are like great cover songs: they reveal what the essence of the original is, maybe by hyper-focusing on it, maybe by exaggerating it. Then there's the differences: they tell you about who the…

laird

I always have a great time watching this weirdo Indonesian riff on The Terminator, but tonight I got to introduce it to first-timers Aiah and Adrian and that made it even more awesome.

Lou (rhymes with wow!)

I too wish I could emerge from the sea in the nude with a perfect smokey eye

Liz

"I've heard of the ultimate blowjob but this... this is too much." Terminator fans are way cooler than Ghostbusters fans because no one threw a hissy fit when this came out.

Carlo Vanstiphout