Shock and scare: A woman using her phone past a horror movie poster at the Usmar Ismail Film Centre in Jakarta. — AFP
Crunching popcorn and screaming, Indonesians are flocking to watch homegrown horror films in cinemas that draw on the country’s penchant for ghost and monster stories.
The genre now dominates Indonesia’s theatres after this folklore helped the industry rise from the grave at the start of the century, when almost no horror films were produced locally, compared to scores last year.
