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Netflix has quietly added a new, very dark horror movie gem

Published 17:29 18 Sept 2024 BST

Updated 19:40 18 Sept 2024 BST

Stephen Porzio
Netflix has quietly added a new, very dark horror movie gem

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The film was only announced to be dropping on Netflix a few days ago.

Netflix has quietly dropped onto its service a new and very dark horror thriller titled Grave Torture.

The 2024 movie hails from Joko Anwar, the acclaimed Indonesian writer-director behind the films Impetigore, Satan’s Slaves and Satan’s Slaves 2: Communion (all three of which are streaming on Shudder now), as well as the Netflix anthology series Nightmares and Daydreams.

His latest film revolves Sita (played as a girl by Widuri Puteri and as an adult by Faradina Mufti), whose parents were killed in a religiously motivated attack.

Growing up to be deeply distrustful of religion, as an adult, she starts to concoct a complicated plan to prove once and for all that religion is not real.

However, her scheme winds up having dire consequences which she could have never possibly imagined.

Tackling grim real world issues and taking place over several years, Grave Torture is an uncommonly ambitious horror thriller that devotes a significant chunk of its nearly two hour runtime to establishing the many moving pieces of its plot.

That said, we'd advise people to stick with the movie as Anwar's terrifically tense and twisty screenplay, along with his knack for crafting memorably creepy set-pieces, makes the long build-up feel necessary and worthwhile.

Plus, the slow-burn storytelling approach pays off in the final 10 minutes of the film which are gloriously, thrillingly berserk.

Grave Torture is streaming on Netflix now. You can check out its trailer right here:

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