The Queen of Black Magic - Movie Review - The Austin Chronicle
If there are two signatures to Indonesian horror, they would be an overwhelming sense of relentless dread, and poisonous centipedes. The Queen of Black Magic has plenty of both, and an enthralling supernatural siege story binding everything together so tight you'll barely be able to breathe. This sinister monarch is actually a sort-of remake of the 1981 Indonesian horror of the same name, which was actually an unlicensed spin-off from Black Magic and Black Magic 2, the mid-Seventies hyper-gruesome horrors by Hong Kong action experts the Shaw Brothers. The script by Joko Anwar follows much ...