As a child, Yuli witnessed her parents die at the hands of a mysterious force after her mother became possessed. Branded a cursed and unwanted child, she survived and grew up under the roof of her father's other wife Ambar and her daughter Laras, enduring constant humiliation. Fueled by vengeance, Yuli performs a forbidden ritual. As the dark magic takes root, the world around her begins to unravel.
Direction
Hadrah Daeng Ratu weaponizes domestic spaces until your own kitchen feels haunted.
Cinematography
Split diptychs of Sijjin/Illiyyin that mirror Yuli's fractured identity.
Acting
Yunita Siregar's stillness before the storm—then the storm.
Director
Hadrah Daeng Ratu
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Sijjin and Illiyyin derive from Quranic cosmology—the lowest and highest registers of divine record-keeping, rarely depicted in horror cinema.
The film functions as inverted hantu lore: where most Indonesian horror punishes transgression, this asks what happens when the transgressor was never given a fair ledger to begin with.
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