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Dir. Godfrey Ho

Godfrey Ho is an infamous cinematic criminal; a director who butchered the medium of film mercilessly throughout the 70’s, 80’s and into the mid-90’s. If you’ve ever watched an incomprehensible martial arts film with white guys in ludicrous ninja outfits (and sometimes sporting massive moustaches) that seems to be constructed from two or more unrelated films, you’ve watched a Godfrey Ho picture.

Ninja Terminator is one of his many, many films that are vaguely related to ninjas. It has a plot of some form, muddled in among some waffling about ninja statues, about a detective who is investigating… something. The film is, as are all that Godfrey Ho directed, a total mess thanks to their production. They were produced by acquiring old Hong Kong action films, spending two weeks filming entirely different footage, and then slicing and dubbing them into a new film. The result is always insane and always hilarious in how terrible it is.

The most fantastic things can appear in a Godfrey Ho feature such as a wonderful outfit for a villain, a deadly messenger robot, a high-class phone or even an innovative way to deal with loose crabs. It’s these insane things, these unintentional hilarities that keep people watching these films. I myself have seen three Godfrey Ho films, each had its own bizarre, ham-fisted production and each was nearly impossible to stop laughing at from start to finish.

It would take much too long to list all the faults in Ninja Terminator, it’s an absolute cavalcade of failure; from the shots that mistakenly have no-one in frame to continuity errors so large the dead keep coming back to life. Suffice to say it’s not a film you watch to enjoy on a normal level it’s firmly for the ‘so bad it’s good’ crowd (of which I am a member) and when viewed that way, it’s a masterpiece of trash.