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  • Englisch Satan's Slave

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An Islamic burial, in sharp contrast with the wealthy — and secular — Indonesian family that mourns the buried matriarch. The following night, Tommy, the younger of her two children, is awoken by a ghost at his bedroom window. His sister Rita, on the other hand, seems to handle her mother’s death with a lot more levity, angering her father when she turns to partying instead of sulking grief. Furthermore, upon consulting an astrologer, Tommy becomes fascinated with Western images of the occult, prompted to work through the pain with the aid of a little harmless, fictional (?) black magic. But soon, strange phenomena seem to truly afflict the family: phone and doorbell pranks, falling photographs, and other telltale signs of the supernatural, coinciding with the tumultuous arrival of the new help… (Fantasia International Film Festival)

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