Director: Bobby Prasetyo
Twin siblings walk straight into a village that does not want to let them leave in Kultus Iblis, a 2023 Indonesian horror feature directed by Bobby Prasetyo.
What is Kultus Iblis about?
After their father dies under circumstances no one will explain, a pair of twins travel to the remote village where he spent his final days, hoping to piece together what actually happened. What they find instead is a community bound by rituals it guards fiercely from outsiders, and locals who grow more evasive the closer the twins get to the truth. Isolated roads, thick surrounding forest, and a village seemingly cut off from ordinary life all work against them as they search for answers. As night falls and the rituals reveal themselves to be far more than superstition, the siblings realize that leaving the village might prove far harder than arriving ever was, and that their father's death may be only the beginning of what the community has hidden.
Cast & crew
Yasamin Jasem and Fadi Alaydrus lead the ensemble as the twins at the center of the mystery, with Rukman Rosadi and Alit Aryani Willems anchoring the village's unsettling cast of locals. Yayu Unru, Mian Tiara, Debo Andrios, and Delia Husein round out the supporting roles that give the village its layered sense of dread.
Context & significance
Director Bobby Prasetyo builds the film's tension around isolation rather than jump scares alone, leaning on Indonesia's rich tradition of folk-horror storytelling where rural communities harbor rituals passed down long before modern institutions ever reached them. The remote village setting, cut off by geography as much as by silence, situates the story within a wave of Southeast Asian horror that treats rural belief systems as a genuine source of dread rather than simple backdrop.
Where & how to watch
Kultus Iblis is available on K-Time with a Persian dub and Persian subtitles, giving Farsi-speaking horror fans full flexibility in how they watch. The film's page can be browsed freely, though streaming the film itself requires logging into a K-Time account.