Connect with us

Movies

Joko Anwar’s Horror Movie ‘Impetigore’ is Indonesia’s Submission for Next Year’s Academy Awards

Published

on

Fritzchen joko anwar

We learned last week that Jayro Bustamante’s La Llorona is Guatemala’s submission for the Academy Awards next year, and believe it or not it’s not the only Shudder Original horror movie that’s been submitted for potential Oscar consideration. Today brings word that Joko Anwar‘s Impetigore, also a Shudder Original, has been chosen as Indonesia’s submission!

If selected by the Academy, Impetigore would compete in the Best International Film category. How this works is that outside the United States, each country is allowed to submit just *one* movie for potential Oscar consideration. That list of submissions is then whittled down by members of the Academy, who ultimately select the films that will compete for the award.

Impetigore premiered on Shudder this past July.

“After surviving a murder attempt in the city, Maya, a down-on-her-luck young woman, learns that she may inherit a house in her ancestral village. With her friend Dini, Maya returns to the village of her birth, unaware that the community there has been trying to locate and kill her to remove the curse that has plagued the village for years. As she begins to discover the complicated reality about her past, Maya finds herself in a fight for her life.”

Tara Basro, Ario Bayu, Marissa Anita, Christine Hakim and Asmara Abigail star.

Impetigore is my love letter to horror movies I grew up with, slashers, ghost stories, wrapped in a tragic family drama not unlike my family,” Joko Anwar recently said in a statement.

Meagan Navarro wrote in her Sundance review earlier this year, “Drawing inspiration from the likes of The Texas Chain Saw MassacreImpetigore eschews jump-scare laden haunted house fare in favor of languid-paced taboo-breaking horror.”

Writer in the horror community since 2008. Editor in Chief of Bloody Disgusting. Owns Eli Roth's prop corpse from Piranha 3D. Has four awesome cats. Still plays with toys.

Movies

Dev Patel’s ‘Monkey Man’ Is Now Available to Watch at Home!

Published

on

monkey man

After pulling in $28 million at the worldwide box office this month, director (and star) Dev Patel’s critically acclaimed action-thriller Monkey Man is now available to watch at home.

You can rent Monkey Man for $19.99 or digitally purchase the film for $24.99!

Monkey Man is currently 88% Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes, with Bloody Disgusting’s head critic Meagan Navarro awarding the film 4.5/5 stars in her review out of SXSW back in March.

Meagan raves, “While the violence onscreen is palpable and painful, it’s not just the exquisite fight choreography and thrilling action set pieces that set Monkey Man apart but also its political consciousness, unique narrative structure, and myth-making scale.”

“While Monkey Man pays tribute to all of the action genre’s greats, from the Indonesian action classics to Korean revenge cinema and even a John Wick joke or two, Dev Patel’s cultural spin and unique narrative structure leave behind all influences in the dust for new terrain,” Meagan’s review continues.

She adds, “Monkey Man presents Dev Patel as a new action hero, a tenacious underdog with a penetrating stare who bites, bludgeons, and stabs his way through bodies to gloriously bloody excess. More excitingly, the film introduces Patel as a strong visionary right out of the gate.”

Inspired by the legend of Hanuman, Monkey Man stars Patel as Kid, an anonymous young man who ekes out a meager living in an underground fight club where, night after night, wearing a gorilla mask, he is beaten bloody by more popular fighters for cash. After years of suppressed rage, Kid discovers a way to infiltrate the enclave of the city’s sinister elite. As his childhood trauma boils over, his mysteriously scarred hands unleash an explosive campaign of retribution to settle the score with the men who took everything from him.

Monkey Man is produced by Jordan Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions.

Continue Reading