Trailer For Indonesian Horror KARMA

Posted by Todd Brown at 2:29am.

Posted in Trailer Alerts , Horror, Asia.

It’s pretty safe to assume that most people reading this site have never seen a current film from Indonesia. Or, if you have, it’s probably a film by Joko Anwar - either Joni’s Promise or Kala. It’s kind of surprising, really, in that Indonesia produces a lot of films every year and a very high number of those are genre titles but most Indonesian productions are crippled by low budgets, formulaic writing and rushed production schedules. There are signs that is changing however ... producer Brian Yuzna is setting up shop there and directors like Anwar proves there are directors willing to buck the trends and do something a bit more interesting.

Enter Karma, the second feature by young production house Credo Pictures. Though a young outfit, Credo is impressing with an emphasis on quality production values and while Karma plays into a lot of typically Asian ghost story motifs it looks to be uncommonly well shot. Here’s a synopsis:

The Guan family is put under an eternal spell: every woman in the family is bound to suffer a tragic death. Still, this does not deter Sandra (Dominique Agisca Diyose) to marry Armand Guan (Joe Taslim), and pull out every possible effort to put the long-lasting bad karma to an end.

The theatrical trailer for the film has just arrived online, check it out below the break.

Reader Comments

M@rc 07/07/2008 @ 9:17am

Why did they leave out the horror in a trailer for a horror movie? Looks quite boring this way.
studboi69 07/07/2008 @ 12:32pm

Looks pretty horrible, no better than your average amatuer film-student product.
MisterKIKI 07/08/2008 @ 5:22am

Not very subtle trailer. I haven’t been impressed by Indonesia’s Thriller/Horror output, although it only spans Jelangkung and another DV shot movie, the title of which escaped me.

It -is- interesting to see an Indonesian produced movie about a Chinese-Indonesian family though, but that’s another topic .