Lady Exterminator [1983]

[Cross-posted on the Bad Movie Night Facebook page.]

Life in the quar is a little easier when we watch things that are available on YouTube and with a video title like "Lady Exterminator - Full Movie - The Most Misogynist POS I've Ever Seen-Indonesian Rape/Revenge Trash", we thought we knew what we were in for. Unfortunately in spite of that glowing endorsement right in the title, it was not a fun time. The strangest thing was that once we were over halfway through the movie we started to wonder if we were misinterpertating the title. We all expected a film where a lady got raped and then became a badass who gets revenge. Instead we had gotten plenty of rape but no revenge and we were thinking maybe instead of a lady exterminator we'd be getting an exterminator of ladies, which we really didn't want. It turns out we were right the first time but not until the literal last five minutes of the movie. That movie cover just barely not a lie.

The plot was so convulted that even Sarah could barely follow it. The problem was really a lack of transitions and the fact that everyone was dubbed with the same voice and had similar names (the two main men are named Roni and Rudi for instance). There are some drug lords with a gang of fighting ladies who don't ever really fight and they rape the pregnant wife of a rival who can only have sex with his wife if he's beating her up. Then the rival rapes the drug lord's sister as revenge. There's also some rape of random girls off the street. This movie is a lot of rape is what I'm saying and it is a horrifying chore to watch. Adam at one point bemoaned, "Can't these guys just be civiled and try to kill each other instead?" Then we get our final few minutes where the wife, who had a miscarriage from the rape and not from her husband beating her, appears to get some revenge but it was far too late by that point for us to care. The film ends strangely on a quote from revelations as if he was trying to have a moral.

In trying to look up the plot summary for this film because we were so confused it was actually really hard to find. Part of the reason is that it has a ton of different names. On IMDb it's "I Want To Get Even" and on this Wikipedia article its "Forbidden Items." Perhaps this movie should be more elusive. Perhaps it shouldn't be found.

Spoon Rating: 1.5