Blu-ray, DVD, Digital Release: Death Knot

Digital Release Date: Jan 17, 2023; Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: Jan. 17, 2023
Price: DVD $14.99, Blu-ray $17.99
Studio: Well Go USA


After their mother’s death, two siblings are confronted by angry villagers claiming the woman was a practitioner of a dangerous brand of black magic in the Indonesian horror-thriller Death Knot.

Cornelio Sunny (who also stars) utilizes folk horror layered with mood and atmosphere in his directorial debut, which nabbed him a nomination for a White Mulberry Award for First Time Director when the film premiered at the Udine Far East Film Festival in 2021.

After the sudden suicide of their estranged mother, two siblings return to their hometown and are immediately confronted by angry villagers. Convinced that the woman was a devotee of a dangerous brand of black magic deemed responsible for a string of mysterious deaths over many years, the locals demand that the siblings leave and allow for the burning of their childhood home in order to rid the town of the curse. While initially skeptical, a string of strange occurrences leads the siblings to believe there may be more truth to the rumors than they ever dreamed possible.

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Founder and editor Laurence Lerman saw Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest when he was 13 years old and that’s all it took. He has been writing about film and video for more than a quarter of a century for magazines, anthologies, websites and most recently, Video Business magazine, where he served as the Reviews Editor for 15 years.