Special Silencers | |
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Directed by | Arizal |
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Production company | P.T. Parkit Films |
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Country | Indonesia |
Language | Indonesian |
Special Silencers ( Indonesian: Serbuan Halilintar) is a 1982 [note 1] Indonesian martial arts horror exploitation film directed by Arizal [1] and starring Barry Prima, Eva Arnaz and W. D. Mochtar. Prima plays Hendra, a man who arrives at a village where deaths are occurring as a result of red tablets—the titular "special silencers"—supplied by a forest-dwelling mystic; when ingested, the pills cause trees to burst from the consumer's stomach. [2] [3]
The film's titular plot element may have been inspired by the chestburster scene in Alien (1979). [3] [4]
Distributor Mondo Macabro, who released the film on Blu-ray, identifies the film's release date as 1982. [1] Other sources, such as author Pete Tombs, have identified its release date as 1979, [4] but Mondo Macabro essayist Ekky Imanjaya writes, "I've had difficulties finding a valid source on the circulation of Special Silencers in the global film market in 1979. Most probably, it was sold straight to video." [5] The film received distribution across Indonesia in 1982, with cuts made to "sexually suggestive and sadistic scenes" due to censorship. [5]
Special Silencers was released on VHS in the Netherlands in the 1980s. [6] A restoration of the film is set to be released on Blu-ray by Mondo Macabro in April 2024. [6] [7]
In 2015, author Clive Davies called Special Silencers "a ridiculous action/horror crossover [...] Unusual but slow-moving, until the exciting finale involving smelly shoe torture, rats, gore and booby traps." [3]
Special Silencers | |
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![]() Promotional release poster | |
Directed by | Arizal |
Starring | |
Production company | P.T. Parkit Films |
Release date |
|
Country | Indonesia |
Language | Indonesian |
Special Silencers ( Indonesian: Serbuan Halilintar) is a 1982 [note 1] Indonesian martial arts horror exploitation film directed by Arizal [1] and starring Barry Prima, Eva Arnaz and W. D. Mochtar. Prima plays Hendra, a man who arrives at a village where deaths are occurring as a result of red tablets—the titular "special silencers"—supplied by a forest-dwelling mystic; when ingested, the pills cause trees to burst from the consumer's stomach. [2] [3]
The film's titular plot element may have been inspired by the chestburster scene in Alien (1979). [3] [4]
Distributor Mondo Macabro, who released the film on Blu-ray, identifies the film's release date as 1982. [1] Other sources, such as author Pete Tombs, have identified its release date as 1979, [4] but Mondo Macabro essayist Ekky Imanjaya writes, "I've had difficulties finding a valid source on the circulation of Special Silencers in the global film market in 1979. Most probably, it was sold straight to video." [5] The film received distribution across Indonesia in 1982, with cuts made to "sexually suggestive and sadistic scenes" due to censorship. [5]
Special Silencers was released on VHS in the Netherlands in the 1980s. [6] A restoration of the film is set to be released on Blu-ray by Mondo Macabro in April 2024. [6] [7]
In 2015, author Clive Davies called Special Silencers "a ridiculous action/horror crossover [...] Unusual but slow-moving, until the exciting finale involving smelly shoe torture, rats, gore and booby traps." [3]