Directed by Kimo Stamboel (Headshot) from a screenplay by Joko Anwar (Impetigore), The Queen of Black Magic (aka Ratu Ilmu Hitam) is coming to Shudder in January, and the official trailer teases its twisted tale of supernatural vengeance.

Starring Ario Bayu, Hannah Al Rashid, Adhisty Zara, Ari Irham and Muzakki Ramdhan, The Queen of Black Magic will be released on Shudder in the US, UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand on January 28th.

"In this terrifying and gory tale of buried secrets and supernatural revenge from two of Indonesia’s modern masters of horror, a middle-class family travels into rural Indonesia to visit the terminally ill director of the orphanage where the father was raised as a child. Sinister and terrifying events soon befall them and the other visiting families as the orphanage’s dark history reveals itself."

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    Raised on a steady diet of R.L. Stine’s Goosebumps books and Are You Afraid of the Dark?, Derek has been fascinated with fear since he first saw ForeverWare being used on an episode of Eerie, Indiana.

    When he’s not writing about horror as the Senior News Reporter for Daily Dead, Derek can be found daydreaming about the Santa Carla Boardwalk from The Lost Boys or reading Stephen King and Brian Keene novels.