Indonesians are flocking to watch homegrown horror films in cinemas that draw on the country's penchant for ghost and monster stories - Copyright AFP BAY ISMOYO ...

JOKO ANWAR had a bleak childhood growing up in a slum in North Sumatra in Indonesia. “I was worried I might get kidnapped by Wewe Gombel,” he says, referring to a female ghost in Javanese mythology ...

Towards the end of The Elixir, Bambang, Rahman, and Kennes fire crackers at the police station where they are trapped. This ...

Netflix's Indonesian horror film "The Elixir" has surged to the top of the streamer's worldwide rankings for non-English language titles, drawing more than 11 million viewers in the first several days ...

Indonesians are flocking to theaters to shiver in front of local horror films, the popularity of which has exploded in recent years. The genre dominates Indonesian screens with a majority of ...

Director-producer-writer Katrina Irawati Graham and producer Ana Tiwary are presenting supernatural horror project “Raesita Grey” at the first JAFF Market, running alongside Jogja-Netpac Asian Film ...

EXCLUSIVE: Mike Wiluan‘s upcoming Indonesian supernatural horror Melati: Revenge in Blood has been boarded by London-based SC Films International for worldwide sales rights (excluding Southeast Asia, ...

Netflix's latest Indonesian horror film The Elixir will not only give the audience jump scares all throughout but also glue ...

Olga Artemyeva is a film critic, screenwriter and film curator based in NYC. She has a PhD in Art History and teaches Film Studies. Her dissertaion was dedicated to the evolution of horror, and it ...