A folk hex with a thousand-day countdown drives this 2023 Indonesian horror feature from director Kimo Stamboel.
What is A Thousand Days about?
Sri is called in to perform a cleansing ritual for Dela Atmojo, a young woman left unconscious by a curse tied to a rigid deadline: the rite has to be completed before the thousandth day, or the consequences turn fatal. When a friend fails to see the ritual through to its end, the household is pulled into a slow-building nightmare, with the clock itself becoming the source of dread as much as anything unseen in the dark. Stamboel, known for genre work that leans on dense sound design and slow-burn dread rather than jump-scare bursts, builds the film around the tension between ordinary domestic routine and an ancient obligation nobody in the story fully understands until it is nearly too late.
About the cast
Mikha Tambayong and Rio Dewanto lead an ensemble that also includes Marthino Lio, Givina Lukita, Agla Artalidia, Gisellma Firmansyah, Karina Suwandi, and Pritt Timothy, spanning the extended circle of family and friends drawn into the ritual's aftermath.
Context & significance
The film sits inside a wave of Indonesian horror built on regional folklore and ritual dread rather than imported genre templates, a tradition that has found a wide audience well beyond Southeast Asia in recent years. Its Indonesian setting, cast, and belief system are treated as specific and grounded rather than exoticized, which is part of what has made this strand of horror travel internationally.
Watching A Thousand Days on Ktime
A Thousand Days streams on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, both included for viewers who prefer either option. Watching requires a free K-Time account login; the film's page itself is open to browse without one. K-Time's Farsi-first interface is built for the Iranian diaspora audience, so navigation, search, and title pages read naturally in Persian throughout.