A middle eastern female terrorist is captured by the CIA in Greece, after an attack on a marketplace. Transported back to the USA, the terrorist undergoes an operation where she is transformed into a cybernetic killing machine. Now the CIA have a secret weapon to send back to the Middle East, but how long can they control her?
Practical Effects
Gloriously cheap cyborg costume that looks like spray-painted motorcycle gear.
Score
Throbbing synth soundtrack doing heavy lifting the script can't manage.
Acting
Sandahl Bergman commits to dead-eyed robot stare with genuine conviction.
Director
Allan Holzman
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Allan Holzman also edited Battle Beyond the Stars for Roger Corman, and this bears the same 'fast and cheap' fingerprints. It was reportedly shot in ten days.
This is essentially a gender-swapped, politically tone-deaf Terminator rip-off released two years after Cameron's film, capitalizing on both cyborg fever and Reagan-era Middle East anxiety.
US
