Last year, Indonesia's largest cinema operator XXI recorded five of its top 10 movies as horror films, drawing 27.8 million ticket sales. Indonesia's first horror film was made in 1971 under the rule ...

EXCLUSIVE: Los Angeles-based sales, production, and finance company EST N8 has acquired Indonesian horror film Pabrik Gula (Sugar Mill) for North America release. Pabrik Gula is directed by Awi ...

Drawing from Indonesian folklore, “Pabrik Gula” has emerged as 2025’s biggest local horror success, attracting over 4.7 million local moviegoers. The MD Pictures production combines period horror ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Crunching popcorn and screaming, Indonesians are flocking to watch homegrown horror films in cinemas that draw on the country's penchant for ghost and monster stories. The genre now dominates ...