#satans slave

[trash-fuckyou]

s/o to my favourite kamera boy KAPI

[roskirambles]

Honorable Mention: Satan’s Slave (Pengabdi Setan, 2017)

The difficult part of living with someone that has a terminal illness is the risk of the ailment eating away the personhood of the individual in the eyes of their loved ones, slowly eroding away the joy spending time with them to the point one might transform the expected grief into relief once things are over. Except when that's not the end of it. Have this conundrum as the starting point of a horror story that explores what family means, throw the demonic into the mix, and you have plenty of potential in your hands.

A passion project for Joko Anwar (who watched the original as a kid and was obsessed ever since), this take on the story gives a much needed emotional backbone and causal connection to the horror proceedings and it's human characters. Its strengths lie not just in the close to 40 years of technological advancements or a likely higher budget, but in the way it builds a much more believable cast to throw into the fry. Same goes for the conflict, which for the most part keeps the central threat while still giving a more nuanced approach that doesn't feel condescendingly preachy.

That isn't to say the technical aspects here aren't stellar: while the make up and effects in the original could hit the mark or completely whiff, here it's all consistently strong, giving the evil spirits such a delightfully creepy look. Special mention, however, has to go to the audio. Some of it falls into known territory for sure, but between it's use of rhythms, recurrent sounds, the subtlest of distortions or even the interplay of what's diegetic and what isn't (let alone the silence in some places where you would expect noise), the film has quite the creative ways to catch you off guard.

While it doesn't necessarily assume you have watched the original, some plot points will hit harder with this knowledge in hand. It does deflate quite a bit in the climax, but it's got so much to offer regardless.

[godofthelairss]

˚₊‧꒰ა ☆ ໒꒱ ‧₊˚

[uspiria]

Satan’s Slave (1982) dir. Sisworo Gautama Putra

[weirdlookindog]

Celâl Kandemiroglu - Sklaven des Satans (Slaves of Satan)

cover art from Silber Grusel-Krimi #225, January 9, 1979

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

𝔈𝔡𝔲𝔞𝔯𝔡𝔬 𝔙𝔞ñó

[cimmerian-war-shrine]

[satans-possesions]

I am a full submissive slut boy sissi and I don't pay tributes to anyone

[satansbutterfly]

Take me deeper into the abyss,I am your loyal whore

[midnighttales357]

do y'all remember that time d&d tried to convince us that daenerys was evil bc she killed slavers and the liberated slaves cheered her for it? what was that about?

[mysterious-secret-garden]

Marcel Roux - Satan's Slave, 1907.

[uspiria]

Satan’s Slave (1982) dir. Sisworo Gautama Putra

[weirdlookindog]

Candace Glendenning in Satan's Slave (1976)

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

𝔈𝔡𝔲𝔞𝔯𝔡𝔬 𝔙𝔞ñó

[basicallyanotherwitchesthing]

Horror Stories, magazine, Stanley Pub., February 1971

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