Supriyanto | June 8, 2022 | 23:59 WIB
TABLOIDBINTANG.COM – Success with KKN in the Dancer Village with 9 million viewers, the MD Pictures production house is again presenting horror films, Ivanna which is confirmed to appear in theaters on July 14, 2022.
Adapted from the best-selling novel Meruntih Berang Ivanna Van Dijk by Risa Saraswati, Ivanna included in Danur Universe. In Danur 2: Maddah (2018), Ivanna is a Dutch ghost who was killed by Japanese soldiers during the colonial period.
Tuesday (7/6) afternoon, Manoj Punjabi as the producer of MD Picture officially released the poster and trailers film Ivanna.
Director Kimo Stamboel was entrusted by MD Pictures to work on Ivanna with a scenario written by Risa Saraswati.
Ivanna is Kimo’s first collaborative film with MD Pictures. Manoj revealed that it was not easy to get Kimo to work with him.
“Already there were several offers that the MD gave, finally wow this (Ivanna). The struggle is also exciting and the result is something different,” said Manoj Punjabi at a press conference at MD Place, Setiabudi, South Jakarta, Tuesday (7/6).
Kimo is known as a horror director and thrillers said, Ivanna presented horror slashers without removing the supernatural element that has been attached.
“The story alone is already supernatural horror, here I also emphasize that. But we also wrap it with more interesting things (slashers). I don’t leave supernatural horror because that element is thick with the origin of the story,” said Kimo Stamboel
The film, which was directed by Kimo Stamboel, featured a series of famous Indonesian stars. At the forefront are Caitlin Halderman, Junior Roberts, Taskya Namya and Shandy William.
In the newly released poster, a headless figure is seen sitting on a chair in a dimly lit room. The headless figure was wearing an ancient gown as if hinting she was from the past.
Ivanna tells the story of Ambar (Caitlin Halderman), a woman with a visual impairment who is able to see supernatural things. Ambar and his family were terrorized when they visited Bandung to celebrate Eid.
They are terrorized by a ghost named Ivanna, a woman from the Netherlands who was killed by Japanese soldiers. Ivanna really hates Malay-looking people because she felt betrayed during her life.
(pri)