First she mates… then she terminates. Then we talk about it!

Maybe you can’t say LADY TERMINATOR is more than the sum of its parts (problematic depictions of women, poor editing, and a sometimes shot-for-shot ripoff of THE TERMINATOR (1984)), but it absolutely doesn’t need to be. Blending Indonesian folklore with ‘80s action tropes and a healthy dose of exploitation, it’s roughly about the curse of 100 generations coming to roost in the innocent young. But it’s so much a product of its time and place that you couldn’t imitate it if you wanted to – it’s too earnestly ridiculous, too confidently strange to repeat. We loved it.

Resources

- “On Lady Terminator: Interview with Barbara Anne Constable” by Andrew Leavold for Plaridel Journal: http://www.plarideljournal.org/article/on-lady-terminator-interview-with-barbara-anne-constable/

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Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Music: “Souls On Fire” from LADY TERMINATOR.

0:00 - Episode 130: LADY TERMINATOR (1988)

2:02 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary

5:05 - Jason’s thoughts

8:22 - Harry’s thoughts

12:45 - Aaron’s thoughts

25:01 - The inimitable fun of LADY TERMINATOR

27:57 - Aaron on “authentic” camp and why capitalizing on camp kills it

34:05 - Our favorite parts of the movie

41:38 - The appeal of unstoppable women