Friday, December 8, 2006
Black Magic aka Ratu ilmu hitam (1979)
This one's an awesome tale of black magic (obviously) and revenge, resulting in bizzare deaths and strange happenings. The story is simple: A girl falls in love with a guy that takes her virginity. Later this guy leaves her for some other woman. When this guy and the other woman have a wedding, the bride is driven to insanity by hallucinations and some food becomes maggot infested. It could only mean one thing, "BLACK MAGIC!". The guy suspects it's that one girl he deflowered so him and some other guys throw her down a cliff. Luckily the girl is saved by a creepy old man. She tells this old man about how she was unjustly accused of black magic so the creepy dude tells her to get revenge by actually doing black magic. Yeah that makes perfect sense, if you get punished for something you never did, you might as well do what you were accused of cause you already just paid for it, hah! She then learns the evil magic ways which the creepy guy is the master of. Doing jump flips in front of a full moon while naked and having blood poured on your head is apparently how you learn black magic. From then on, REVENGE through black magic ensues, resulting in ridiculous GORE. We see one guy's skin expand like a balloon and explode blood and another guy's head becomes so painful that he rips it off...and then his head starts flying and bites one guy. The gore scenes are not frequent but you could still enjoy this movie if you get into the whole superstitious remote village atmosphere and appreciate this tale about deception, revenge, power, and jealousy that progresses. When some lame religious nut from the city comes into the story, that's when the girl goes soft and black magic gets weaker because religious nut encourages everyone in the village to keep praying (in the movie, "prayer" to "black magic" is like "water" to "fire") . The movie doesn't end there though because the creepy black magic master still encourages revenge and for black magic to stay alive. Revenge is all that guy ever talked about. He'd say intense stuff like "pay life with life and death with death!" He ruled! Eventually the movie ends with one hell of a death! Lets just say it involves a human body exploding a bunch of times in different spots (yep, even near the groin). Try and seek this movie out if you love obscure weird stuff that has wild special f/x beyond your imaginations.
I got a dubbed english DVD-R version. I think the DVD-R was either a copy of a rare VHS or VCD, either way it's just way cheaper and easier to just go on ebay and search for the DVD-R. Hopefully ebay doesn't shut down the guy that sold it to me, latley ebay has been shutting down every bootlegger they can. Thanks to yours truly though, you can behold some great gore scenes I uploaded on youtube, check it out here.
Labels:
Gore/Splatter,
Indonesian Insanity,
Supernatural,
Weirdness
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