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Tengkorak Hidoep
Tengkorak Hidoep (literally "The Living Skeleton") is a 1941 film from the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia) directed by Tan Tjoei Hock. It has been called Indonesia's first domestic horror film.
Plot.
Raden Darmadji and several of his friends go to the island of Mustika in search of Darmadji's brother, who was lost in a shipwreck ten years earlier. There, they discover that the god Maha Daru, who was locked away on the island 2,000 years before after losing a
one in the Indonesian film magazine "F" and the entertainment publication "Tabloid Bintang", write that "Tengkorak Hidoep" was the first Indonesian horror film. However, other publications, such as JB Kristanto's "Katalog Film Indonesia" ("Indonesian Film Catalogue"), consider the 1971 psychological horror film "Lisa" the first true Indonesian horror film; in Kristanto's catalogue, "Tengkorak Hidoep" is considered an adventure film. By the late 2000s, horror films had become one of the dominant genres in