Rizal creates horror in new flavor

(JP)

JAKARTA: Tired of making horror movies full of ghosts, film director Rizal Mantovani has shifted to something new: psychopaths.

In his latest flick, Air Terjun Pengantin (The Bride’s Waterfall), Rizal explores this new subject, bringing the horror subgenre of slasher to the local silver screen.

Slasher movies typically involve a psychopathic killer stalking and killing a sequence of victims in a graphically violent manner.

“All this time I’ve been making horror movies with ghosts and so on,” Rizal said recently at a press conference for his new movie.

“But then I realized that horror movies aren’t always about ghosts.”

For the new paradigm he adopted, Rizal went on to introduce the slasher to the Indonesian movie scene.

Currently, he said, the subgenre is booming among Hollywood movies.

“The slasher is relatively new in Indonesia as all this time our horror movies are about ghosts and urban legends,” said Rizal, who directed the horror flicks Jelangkung (The Uninvited), the Kuntilanak (Female Ghosts) trilogy, Kesurupan (Possessed) and Mati Suri (Nearly Dead).

“So I hope our public gets an idea about what a slasher movie is through my new movie.”

Air Terjun Pengantin, starring actress and model Tamara Bleszynski, has quickly captured the public’s attention with its high exposure of bikini-clad women and what is said to be “inappropriate” costume. Viewers are required to have a valid ID showing they are above 17 years of age before being allowed
to watch. — JP