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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