Friday, August 28 7:30PM
\nSpectacles Theater
\n124 South 3rd St, Brooklyn, NY, 11249
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H. Tjut Djalil\u2019s LADY TERMINATOR is based on the Javanese legend of Nyai Roro Kidul or the South Sea Queen, an enchanting siren-like figure that was said to be not only a powerful courtesan to the sultans of the islands but also a naga spirit, a Southeast Asian snake nymph, imbued with powerful and deadly magic.<\/p>\n
Upon a research gathering assignment on a remote Indonesian island an American anthropological student becomes possessed by the spirit of the South Sea Queen, a long deceased witch with a powerful sexual endowment fatal to the men she seduces. Determined to rise again and seek revenge against the great grand-daughter of the man who stole her serpentine magic and return to her former power, the South Sea Queen seizes the body of this unsuspecting tourist in a strange land as her new host and begins wreaking chaos throughout the urban landscape of Jakarta. Leaving a trail of male bodies in her wake she is unstoppable until she meets local police detective Max McNeil.<\/p>\n
In Djalil\u2019s LADY TERMINATOR the classic myth of the South Sea Queen is brought into the context of the exploitation cinema genre\u2019s that animated cinema and filmmaking in 1980\u2019s Indonesia. Djalil\u2019s twisted mash-up of American action and adventure films, LADY TERMINATOR, Indonesian folktale and martial arts b-movie genres results in something familiar and yet altogether unique, wonderful and strange.<\/p>\n