On Monday, I spotlighted one of the best films that play at this year's Ohio 24 Hour Science Fiction Marathon. Today, I give you one of the worst, the schlocktastic Indonesian thriller Lady Terminator. As the title implies, the movie is a low-rent ripoff of the Terminator franchise- one character even says "come with me if you want to live", fer chrissakes. But awful though it is, it's a true cult classic, with plenty of bad dialogue, worse dubbing, explosions, vehicular mayhem. There's also a good amount of T&A, though not as much as a previous Marathon favorite, Lifeforce, which by my recollection is still the benchmark for recent Marathon nudity. Movies like Lady Terminator are the real reason I go to the Marathon- sure, stuff like The Day the Earth Stood Still might be better, but they're good no matter where you watch them, while Lady Terminator will never be as much fun without a huge crowd of SF fans lobbing snarky comments all the way through it. Needless to say, we ate it up.
