If you think you’ve seen it all, “Lady Terminator” (originally Pembalasan Ratu Laut Selatan or Revenge of the South Sea Queen) is here to rearrange your brain chemistry. On paper, it’s a beat-for-beat tribute to James Cameron’s 1984 classic, a film famously rooted in the DNA of Harlan Ellison’s “Demon with a Glass Hand” and “Soldier.” But in the hands of Indonesian visionary H. Tjut Djalil (operating under the pseudonym Jalil Jackson), the cold, metallic logic of Skynet is replaced by ancient, saltwater sorcery. While this may not have been the first film in which mankind battled Nyi Roro Kidul, the Queen of the South Sea, it is definitely the only time that she repeatedly shoots men in the penis with an M16.

Djalil is no stranger to the bizarre; this is the same director who gave us the floating-head-and-entrails nightmare of Mystics In Bali. As Ed Glaser points out in How the World Remade Hollywood, Djalil had a knack for remaking Western hits like A Nightmare on Elm Street through a regional lens. Here, he trades the T-800’s endoskeleton for the wrath of Nyi Roro Kidul, the Queen of the South Sea. The result? Instead of a robot from the future, we get a mystical cycle of vengeance that begins with a legendary sex-and-death sequence involving a literal vagina dentata snake that is eventually forged into a dagger. It’s a mythology that puts the cold efficiency of a microchip to shame.

Barbara Anne Constable plays Tania Wilson, an anthropologist whose investigation into the tomb of the queen leads to being impregnated by a snake and then possessed by Nyi Roro Kidul herself, who we’ve already met via an opening that shows her repeatedly making love to men and killing them when they can’t satisfy her needs until one man is able to pull the snake from her womb, transform it into a dagger and make her cycle of death end for a hundred years.

The queen has a target, pop singer Erica (Claudia Angelique Rademaker), whom she chases for the entire film before she’s saved by NY cop Max McNeil (Christopher J. Hart), a police officer who somehow found himself in Indonesia just in time to shout, “Come with me if you want to live.”

Constable was told that this movie would be for Indonesia only, but it’s played all over the world. A dancer whose leg injury led her to arrive in Hong Kong to pursue a career in modeling and fashion reporting — she was also a Pet of the Month for the Australian Penthouse — she performed her own stunts in this film. At one point, her ankle was skewered by a large shard of glass, and the filmmakers paid her for an entire month while she relearned how to walk.

There’s a morgue scene in this where numerous men are under sheets with blood all over where their privates are, and they discuss if a serial killer is cutting off their wangs. It’s amazing and so much more memorable than any movie I’ll see for the next year. This is the kind of movie I make people watch when they come to my house, a mindblowing assault on the senses, a film where instead of a robot eye the Lady Terminator simply takes out her own, but every other scene is nearly shot-for-shot taken from the American film, but mystic instead of technological, which I can more than get behind.

I want ten sequels to this.