So, have I mentioned that I love Lady Terminator? LOVE it. It’s dialog is ludicrous. It’s action is frenetic, and also ludicrous. It’s gore is gratuitous to the point of being… well, ludicrous. Everything about it is so much more than it needs to be that it takes one past the point of feeling satisfied to feeling engorged. So generous is its bounty that to merely sing its praises seems like inadequate thanks. Like the Queen of the South Seas, it should be worshiped, with palms upturned to the heavens and mouth agape. We should give our bodies to it, and let it make of us soulless meat puppets for the purpose of whatever unholy errands it sees fit. In short, Lady Terminator is just a really, really awesome movie.
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Looks like a wild ride. If there’s anything that I learned from “Asian Cult Cinema”, is that Indonesia was just as capable as Hong Kong in making over-the-top exploitation cinema.
It seems to me that the more oppressive/repressive a culture/government, the more batshit insane the underground is in the rare moments in which they get to express themselves. That’s why, I think, Japan has produced such consistently insane crap. Insane cult cinema in an Islamic (or predominantly Islamic) country seems to follow the pattern as well…unless you find the cinema of Turkey and Pakistan to be sane in any way.
Indeed. A while back, I watched Daughters of Eve, an incredibly grim and depressing Tagalog-language art-smut film from the mid-1980’s, and decided after I was done that it was coming from too completely foreign and bizarre a cultural context for me to review it to my satisfaction. I’m hoping that the extras on the recently released DVD edition (the version I saw was a bootleg of unknown provenance that had been first dubbed into English and then subtitled in Greek!) will yield some useful information whenever I get around to calling for a rematch.
I don’t know if “liked” is quite the word, but I found Daughters of Eve to be really powerful and very difficult to get out of my mind. And, like you, I didn’t feel properly equipped to write it up at the time. So instead I wrote a review of a Filipino movie about a lady who dresses up like a nun and shoots people with a shotgun, and then somehow managed to devote a couple of lines within it to Daughters of Eve. Look forward to hearing your take on it when you work your way around to it.
#1 by blake on April 19, 2010 - 6:39 pm
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Looks like a wild ride. If there’s anything that I learned from “Asian Cult Cinema”, is that Indonesia was just as capable as Hong Kong in making over-the-top exploitation cinema.
#2 by KeithA on April 20, 2010 - 9:38 am
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It seems to me that the more oppressive/repressive a culture/government, the more batshit insane the underground is in the rare moments in which they get to express themselves. That’s why, I think, Japan has produced such consistently insane crap. Insane cult cinema in an Islamic (or predominantly Islamic) country seems to follow the pattern as well…unless you find the cinema of Turkey and Pakistan to be sane in any way.
#3 by Todd on April 20, 2010 - 11:21 am
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But lest we forget to give Catholicism it’s fair due as a driving force behind absolutely bonkers exploitation cinema, I give you the Philippines.
#4 by El Santo on April 20, 2010 - 12:51 pm
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Indeed. A while back, I watched Daughters of Eve, an incredibly grim and depressing Tagalog-language art-smut film from the mid-1980’s, and decided after I was done that it was coming from too completely foreign and bizarre a cultural context for me to review it to my satisfaction. I’m hoping that the extras on the recently released DVD edition (the version I saw was a bootleg of unknown provenance that had been first dubbed into English and then subtitled in Greek!) will yield some useful information whenever I get around to calling for a rematch.
#5 by Todd on April 20, 2010 - 2:51 pm
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I don’t know if “liked” is quite the word, but I found Daughters of Eve to be really powerful and very difficult to get out of my mind. And, like you, I didn’t feel properly equipped to write it up at the time. So instead I wrote a review of a Filipino movie about a lady who dresses up like a nun and shoots people with a shotgun, and then somehow managed to devote a couple of lines within it to Daughters of Eve. Look forward to hearing your take on it when you work your way around to it.
#6 by Gerry on April 20, 2010 - 6:55 pm
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Just a bit of kibitzing but that is not an Uzi she is holding. It’s a Mac-10. Kinda the crappier cousin of the Uzi.
#7 by Todd on April 20, 2010 - 8:28 pm
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As would be appropriate.
#8 by supersonic on April 21, 2010 - 4:08 pm
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Also known as “the Canseco”.
(Huh, I thought Mac-10s were smaller than that.)
#9 by El Santo on April 21, 2010 - 6:23 pm
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They come in at least two sizes, one that fires a 9mm round and another that fires a bigger, .45 caliber bullet.