A Thousand Days
Sewu Dino
Sri accepts a generous job offer and tasked to perform a cleansing ritual for Dela Atmojo, an unconscious girl who is suffering from the hex of 1000-days. The terror begins when her coworker neglects to finish the ritual. Failing to perform until the 1000th day will result in their demise.
Why it matters
A Thousand Days delivers a slow-burning, ritualistic horror steeped in Southeast Asian superstition, where cultural dread meets creeping inevitability.
- Anchored by a haunting central performance, the film channels the tension of unfinished rites and ancestral curses.
- Practical effects and atmospheric dread evoke classic folk horror with a modern, regional twist.
- For fans of ritual-based terror like The Wailing or The Medium, it deepens the genre with authentic cultural specificity.
- Its deliberate pacing demands patience but rewards with mounting unease and a pervasive sense of doom.
Director
7 horror films in catalog
Cast
Horror DNA
Gore
14
Slow Burn
50
Psychological
43
Supernatural
100
Creature
0
Disturbing
33
Fun Factor
50
Cerebral
14
Survival
66
