Impetigore (Perempuan Tanah Jahanam) first published by VODzilla.co “Are you Rahayu?” asks the creepy man who for days has been passing – and ogling – Maya (Tara Basro) at the toll booth where she makes her meagre living. “Are you from Harjosari Village in Mandiraja?… Is your father’s name Ki Donowongso?” These questions about 25-year-old…
Satan’s Slaves first published by SciFiNow There is a scene near the beginning of Joko Anwar’s Satan’s Slaves where 22-year-old Rini (Tara Basro), responding to the ringing of a bell, enters a bedroom and walks past a mirror to her ailing mother Mawarni (Ayu Laksmi) whom she is surprised to see out of bed and on…
Halfworlds Season 1 first published by VODzilla.co At the very head of the first (and every other) episode of Halfworlds, the clunking sound of television static can be heard starting up. It’s the familiar sonic ident to any production from HBO, except that this time the text onscreen instead reads ‘HBO Asia Originals’, heralding a hybrid…
Ritual first published by Little White Lies, as the ninth part of my Cinema Psychotronicum column Despite the birdsong and insect chirps amplified into a heady, almost hallucinatory soundscape, Ritual (2012; aka Modus Anomali) opens with a sylvan idyll marked mostly by tranquility – until, that is, this natural Eden is disrupted by the sudden emergence of…