Indonesian cinema has a rocky history marked by setbacks and regroupings due to a lack of local financing, government censorship and competition from movies imported from the U.S., Europe and other Asian countries, primarily Japan. The only Indonesian imports I can think of that did mainstream business in America are the stunt-packed crime pictures The Raid: Redemption and The Raid 2 (2011 and 2014), action being cinema’s true international language. Regulatory changes in 2016, however, spurred overseas investment, so now that J-horror and K-horror are well-established in the West, I-horror may be on a path to join its Japanese and South Korean brethren.
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