An Indonesian film about a successful artist in Jakarta, his college professor wife, and his mum visiting from the village she lives in. This film really surprised me, because I kept thinking it was going in one direction for it then throw more loops and curve balls. It went to some very, very dark places near the end but handled it so well, and from the perspective of a culture I don’t belong to.

I thought this would be a creature feature, and it kinda is, but the depth of story they give it and the MC is crazy good. I can’t really say much without spoiling it heavily, but it is phenomenal. You only ever see the MCs face, every other characters face is obscured; tying in perfectly with the monster only ripping people’s faces off. Bits of gore, but not gratuitous, relatively few cheap jump scares, and an amazing story of one woman’s preservence in the face of her own trauma.