Among the most popular myths in Indonesian folklore, the rampaging spirit of a sundelbolong has persisted in the country's history and culture for many years. Essentially taking the term as ‘Ghost with Hole' for the being's physical appearance as a young, dark-haired woman who was a prostitute in life who died while pregnant, the hole refers to the spot in the person's back where the fetus emerged from her body as the rest of the woman looks as she was when she was alive. The arrival of this film in the early 1980s in the middle of the country's exploitation and horror explosion served it's star Suzzanna as a genre icon in her home country as “Sundelbolong” was an unmitigated smash, terrifying generations and serving as a forerunner for numerous Asian horror films to come following its release.
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- 10/31/2023
- by Don Anelli
- AsianMoviePulse
The 1981 Indonesian movie Srigala is by no means known by the masses, but those in the loop about vintage and obscure Southeast Asian horror are aware of its existence for one reason. The director of the original Satan’s Slaves, once a steady provider of Indonesia’s homegrown horrors, joined the legion of eager filmmakers who set out to make their own slasher after watching the first Friday the 13th. However, Sisworo Gautama Putra did more than just borrow a concept — he lifted an entire ending.
Before Srigala (or “Wolf” in English) gets on with some of the most blatant copycatting in horror, Putra delivers a different movie for the first fifty minutes. The opening kill shows an unsuspecting scuba diver being gutted by an unseen assailant once he comes up to examine the small trinket he plucked from a large lake. Later, three fortune hunters arrive at the same doomed location,...
Before Srigala (or “Wolf” in English) gets on with some of the most blatant copycatting in horror, Putra delivers a different movie for the first fifty minutes. The opening kill shows an unsuspecting scuba diver being gutted by an unseen assailant once he comes up to examine the small trinket he plucked from a large lake. Later, three fortune hunters arrive at the same doomed location,...
- 1/13/2023
- by Paul Lê
- bloody-disgusting.com
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