I watched Blind Warrior because the poster art is ripped off from The House by the Cemetery and that act of theft is perfect, because this is an Indonesian martial arts movie and that's an Italian gore epic and that seems like worlds apart yet united.
Based on the comic book by Ganes TH, this same story has been filmed several times. There's the 1970 movie The Blind from the Cave of Ghosts, 1972's Mystery at Borobudur, 1977's Lost Heaven, 1988's Rise of the Angel Eyes, 1990's Valley of Death, TV series that were made in 1993, 2003, 2012 and 2020.
Raden Parna, a rich and ruthless man, has forced Sarimbi by force to be his wife. Barda Mandrawata, The Blind Man from the Ghost Cave, passes through Raden's village and gets involved, but Raden places him into Earth Underbelly Hell, a place from which no one can escape. Yet as Darimbi's sister gathers other warriors and gods to help her, he walks out of hell and wipes out Raden and all of his followers.
Only through cutting people's heads off can we find peace seems to be the moral of this story, but I also took a whole bunch of edibles and watched this at 4 AM on a Saturday night. I don't want to advocate drug use to impressionable readers, but I have to tell you, feeling extreme euphoric bliss and the physical elation of floating while watching blind warriors straight up decimate people is something kind of like a religious mania. Now I know why that warning label was on the package: Clear your schedule because ingesting edible cannabis has long-lasting effects.
I might still be watching this movie.
Based on the comic book by Ganes TH, this same story has been filmed several times. There's the 1970 movie The Blind from the Cave of Ghosts, 1972's Mystery at Borobudur, 1977's Lost Heaven, 1988's Rise of the Angel Eyes, 1990's Valley of Death, TV series that were made in 1993, 2003, 2012 and 2020.
Raden Parna, a rich and ruthless man, has forced Sarimbi by force to be his wife. Barda Mandrawata, The Blind Man from the Ghost Cave, passes through Raden's village and gets involved, but Raden places him into Earth Underbelly Hell, a place from which no one can escape. Yet as Darimbi's sister gathers other warriors and gods to help her, he walks out of hell and wipes out Raden and all of his followers.
Only through cutting people's heads off can we find peace seems to be the moral of this story, but I also took a whole bunch of edibles and watched this at 4 AM on a Saturday night. I don't want to advocate drug use to impressionable readers, but I have to tell you, feeling extreme euphoric bliss and the physical elation of floating while watching blind warriors straight up decimate people is something kind of like a religious mania. Now I know why that warning label was on the package: Clear your schedule because ingesting edible cannabis has long-lasting effects.
I might still be watching this movie.
