If there are two signatures to Indonesian horror, they would be an overwhelming sense of relentless dread, and poisonous centipedes.
The Queen of Black Magic has plenty of both, and an enthralling supernatural siege story binding everything together so tight you ll barely be able to breathe.
This sinister monarch is actually a sort-of remake of the 1981 Indonesian horror of the same name, which was actually an unlicensed spin-off from
Black Magic and
Black Magic 2, the mid-Seventies hyper-gruesome horrors by Hong Kong action experts the Shaw Brothers. The script by Joko Anwar follows much the same broad approach as he did with his own revolutionary remake of groundbreaking 1981 shocker
Directed by Kimo Stamboel.
Starring Ario Bayu, Hannah Al Rashid, Adhisty Zara, Ade Firman Hakim, Sheila Dara Aisha, Tanta Ginting, Salvita Decorte, Imelda Therinne, Miller Khan and Shenina Cinnamon.
SYNOPSIS:
When a group of friends reunite at the orphanage where they grew up, they discover that they may have been brought together by some sort of sinister dark sorcery.
Indonesia is currently on something of a high when it comes to horror movies. In fact, the country’s entry for the Best International Feature Film award at the upcoming Oscars is the grotesque and unsettling
Impetigore, which was released via spooky streamer Shudder. The same service is responsible for Kimo Stamboel’s blood-soaked new movie