Satan's Slaves
dir. Joko Anwar · 2017
Rini's family is on the brink of collapse, living in a decaying house near a cemetery, where the death of her mother unleashes a series of supernatural events. As Rini grapples with the haunting legacy of her mother's past, the film envelops viewers in a suffocating atmosphere of dread and uncertainty, where every creak of the floorboards and flicker of the lights heightens the tension.
The family of Rini is financially broken and she lives with her father, her mother that is ill, her grandmother that is crippled, and her brothers Tony, Bondi and the mute six year-old Ian in an old house in the countryside nearby a cemetery. Her mother, who was a successful singer, is dying from a mysterious disease and her father does not have money to support the family. When her mother dies, her father needs to travel to the city to sell the house and weird things happen in the house. The skeptical Rini befriends Hendra, son of the religious Ustadz, and they learn that her mother was infertile and joined a cult that worships Satan to have children. And now, when Ian will be seven, they will take the boy with them. What can they do to protect Ian?
