Besides shouting each other’s names, the young leads in director Rako Prijanto’s film Monster barely speak a word. It’s up to the audience to interpret what they’re going through — being abducted and taken to a desolate house, where they must fend off their depraved captor and escape by any means necessary. The Indonesian film, a reimagining of the 2020 American horror movie The Boy Behind the Door, stars Anantya Kirana, Sultan Hamonangan, and Alex Abbad.

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Best friends Alana (Kirana) and Rabin (Hamonangan) are hanging out after grade school, biking around town and playing games at an arcade. They don’t realize a suspicious man, later identified as Jack (Abbad), is following close behind in a black sedan. Alana rounds a corner to look for Rabin, who’s gone on ahead. She sees the unfamiliar car...