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Flying entrails, crawling insects, skin bubbling as it boils away at the behest of a supernatural reckoning: The Queen of Black Magic has it all, and the craft of its filmmaking has only grown more visible with age.
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After a treacherous ex-lover enlists his loyal friends to throw her off a cliff, Suzzanna’s titular Murni learns witchcraft in order to return and exact revenge convincingly portraying her character’s chilling turn toward empowerment, the actress at times appears spellbound by some mystical force, but her obsidian eyes are full of fire. With Stamboel’s remake burning up Shudder, there’s no better time to catch up on Liliek Sudjio’s original, distinguished by the impressively all-in performance of its lead actress, known only as Suzzanna. The Queen of Black Magic ( Ratu Ilmu Hitam) (1979) It captures through its festering dread and allegorical density some sense of the political currents from whence it was birthed.Ģ.
In an Indonesia still coming to terms with the costs of its 32-year brush with authoritarian rule under president Suharto, Satan’s Slaves explores the tensions of a new generation asked to atone for the ways they’re the products of their elders’ sins. No mere jump-scare generator, though, Satan’s Slaves is also a rich and emotionally devastating narrative about guilt, grief and the weight of a dark inheritance.
Ghosts, demons, zombies and sinister cultists also factor in, as they are wont to do. Anwar delivers on those, employing all manner of jangling bells, shadow-soaked hallways, and creaking floorboards to enliven his story of children cursed by their late mother’s pact with the devil.
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A remake of Sisworo Gautama Putra’s also excellent movie of the same name, it broke box-office records in Indonesia, was embraced internationally, and now thrives-especially on Shudder, where it’s become a flagship film for the service-as a particularly potent gateway drug for English-speaking horror hounds in search of superior, subtitled scares. Satan’s Slaves ( Pengabdi Setan) (2017)Īt the forefront of the recent Indonesian horror boom is Joko Anwar’s masterfully terrifying Satan’s Slaves. Especially in more recent years, muddling elements of the New French Extremity’s no-holds-barred brutality, J-horror’s spectral mystique, and Hollywood’s decadence together with Indonesian filmmakers’ own inimitable sensibilities, the country’s horror has represented a uniquely exciting voice in the cinema of fear.īefore checking out The Queen of Black Magic on Shudder (as this writer strongly suggests doing), here’s a quick introduction-or a beginner’s guide-to the distinctly diabolical, often delirious pleasures of Indonesian horror, as represented by six of its finest outings.ġ.
More widely regarded classics, like 1979’s The Queen of Black Magic and 1980’s Satan’s Slave, have already been remade by the generation that grew up with them. In 1981, Leák ( Mystics in Bali) told of an American woman introduced to black magic by a Balinese witch it terrified with its central image of a flying, fanged head with vital organs dangling from its neck (a mythological figure known as a le-ak). 1971’s Beranak Dalam Kubur ( Birth in the Grave) focused on a struggle between two sisters, one good and the other evil. The quality of Indonesian horror is by no means new worthy genre offerings have been coming out of the country for decades.
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