“Ghost in the Cell” Poster
There was a time during the 2010’s when Indonesia got tagged with the much bandied about label of action cinemas next big hope. However here in 2026, it’s become increasingly apparent that the hope which has been realised doesn’t belong to action cinema, but rather the Asian horror genre. A genre that Japan and its slew of long black-haired ghosts seemed to dominate in the early 21st century, it’s taken Indonesia for it to be taken in a direction which feels fresh and new. From the Mo Brothers genre blending efforts like Killers, to Timo Tjahjanto’s solo outings mixing horror and martial arts in the form of The Night Comes for Us, to Joko Anwar’s reimagining of Indonesian horror classics with Satan’s Slaves. The combination of deep-rooted superstitions, and a willingness to embrace the gorier side, has seen Indonesia’s horror output deliver some much-needed originality to a genre that’s never gone out of fashion.
The latest dose of horror also comes courtesy of Joko Anwar, who after making his debut with the well-received “everything that can go wrong will go wrong” 2005 comedy Joni’s Promise, gradually made his horror leanings more and more apparent in the succeeding years. Anwar really came on the radar internationally though in the later half of the 2010’s, first with the previously mentioned remake of Satan’s Slaves in 2017, and going on to cement his horror credentials with the likes of 2019’s Impetigore, and a Satan’s Slaves sequel in 2022. For his latest, the humorously titled Ghost in the Cell, Anwar has opted Continue reading
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