Director: Paul Agusta
Cast: Morgan Oey, Zulfa Maharani, Jourdy Pranata, Puty Sjahrul Munir, Brigitta Cynthia
The Butterfly House is a 2025 Indonesian horror film directed by Paul Agusta, starring Morgan Oey and Zulfa Maharani. When a young couple's wedding preparations are shattered by a sudden death in the family, long-buried secrets crawl out of a crumbling ancestral home — and not everything that follows can be explained.
What is The Butterfly House about?
Salim and Tasya are on the verge of starting their life together, counting down the days to their wedding. Everything changes when Salim's aunt — his sole surviving blood relative — suddenly passes away. Grief pulls the couple toward the family's old house to settle her affairs, and what greets them there is far stranger than they bargained for. Disturbing occurrences multiply, old photographs conceal faces they do not recognise, and the house itself seems unwilling to release its inhabitants. As Salim unravels threads of his own forgotten past, Tasya begins to question how well she truly knows the man she is about to marry. Director Paul Agusta builds dread methodically, anchoring supernatural escalation in the very human fear of inheriting secrets you were never meant to know.
Cast & crew
Morgan Oey leads as Salim, grounding the emotional core with a performance that moves between grief and creeping paranoia. Zulfa Maharani plays Tasya with quiet resolve that gradually fractures under pressure. The ensemble includes Jourdy Pranata, Puty Sjahrul Munir, Brigitta Cynthia, Alam Jae Setiawan, Verdi Solaiman, and Bernadette Bonita — a strong roster drawn from Indonesia's contemporary genre cinema.
Context & significance
Indonesian horror has earned serious global attention over the past decade, building on a rich folk-mythology tradition and a distinct visual grammar that sets it apart from Hollywood genre formulas. The Butterfly House fits within that lineage — family curses, ancestral homes, and the weight of inheritance are recurring pillars of Southeast Asian supernatural cinema. For Persian-speaking diaspora viewers who grew up on Iranian horror and ghost stories rooted in domestic spaces, this film's atmosphere of domestic dread will feel recognisable even across cultures. The film is available with a full Persian dub as well as Persian subtitles, making it equally accessible whether you prefer to watch in Farsi or follow in the original Indonesian.
Where & how to watch
The Butterfly House streams on K-Time with both Persian dub and Persian subtitles available. Watch on your web browser, smart TV, or phone — no VPN needed, no geo-blocking, no extra download required. Subscribe once and cancel anytime.