This 2019 adaptation of the 1981 Indonesian horror film flips the script while maintaining the original's intensity. Focusing on revenge rather than the protagonist's journey, the remake explores feminine rage through a new lens.
The best adaptations are often praised for being faithful to their source material, but this horror remake completely flips the script of its original while still packing the same punch. The Queen of Black Magic was originally released in 1981 and followed the titular character as she began her journey of vengeance.
The 2019 adaptation still has the Queen, but we don't see her until the latter half of the film, and instead it is set years later from a different point of view, focusing on her revenge rather than her path. At the crux of both Indonesian films is feminine rage, and though the premise is completely reversed, the 2019 remake still carries the same weight and even takes it one step further with more nuanced commentary while playing with the idea of who the real victim is. 'The Queen of Black Magic' Remake Flips the Original In the original The Queen of Black Magic, an accused witch is thrown off a cliff where she is found and nursed back to health by an old, mysterious stranger. Under his tutelage, she slowly masters black magic and, after many years, returns to the perpetrators that ostracized and tried to execute her to wreak her revenge. In comparison, the 2019 version never veers into this aspect of her story, and instead opens up with a family that is visiting the father's, Hanif's (Ario Bayu), orphanage home because his previous headmaster is ill. There, they meet two other men that Hanif grew up with, Anton (Tanta Ginting) and Jefri (Miller Khan), and their respective wives. Though the women are simply archetypes who become fodder for the future grisly, ironic deaths, the estranged men have intriguing dynamics as they return to the site of their past lives and secret
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