Tag: indonesian cinema

Celluloid Screams 2023: Lady Terminator

Posted on by Darren Gaskell

Are we sitting comfortably? Then I’ll begin. Lady Terminator opens with The Queen Of The South Sea, an all-powerful sex goddess, luring some poor unfortunate into her boudoir and devouring the bloke’s penis with her vagina dwelling serpent – just out of shot – in a slice of horror erotica that’s neither horrific nor erotic. […]

The Queen of Black Magic (2019)

Posted on by Keri O'Shea

The Indonesian genre cinema which I know best is decades old now, but it certainly tends toward the unforgettable; during the country’s 1980s cinema boom, its genre film was clearly in love with the opportunities afforded by SFX (however rudimentary), leading to some incredibly lurid, overblown pieces of work, heavy with folkloric influences. In some […]