Birthday:
05-26-1938
Deathday:
01-05-1993 (54 years)
Birthplace:
Kisaran, North Sumatra, Dutch East Indies
Biography
Sisworo Gautama Putra (May 26, 1938 – January 5, 1993) was an Indonesian film director and screenwriter, best known for his work in the horror film genre. Born in Kisaran in North Sumatra, Sisworo trained as a director in 1961. In 1962 he began working in the studio Gema Period Film. He worked as screenwriter unit manager, production manager, and then assistant director.
His solo debut as a director started in 1972 with the film Revenge of the Child Haram, in which the screenplay was also written by him. He was a successful director during the golden age of Indonesian cinema from the 1970s until the early 1990s and often directed popular horror films such as Sundelbolong, Telaga Angker, and Nyi Ageng Ratu Pemika, often working actors such as Suzzanna, Ratno Timoer, Barry Prima, and George Rudy.
His last film, Misteri di Malam Pengantin, was released after his death on January 5, 1993. (Courtesy Wikipedia)
His solo debut as a director started in 1972 with the film Revenge of the Child Haram, in which the screenplay was also written by him. He was a successful director during the golden age of Indonesian cinema from the 1970s until the early 1990s and often directed popular horror films such as Sundelbolong, Telaga Angker, and Nyi Ageng Ratu Pemika, often working actors such as Suzzanna, Ratno Timoer, Barry Prima, and George Rudy.
His last film, Misteri di Malam Pengantin, was released after his death on January 5, 1993. (Courtesy Wikipedia)
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The Warrior
Director
event1981 star_border 6.1
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Barry Prima plays Jaka Sembung, a Robin Hood figure who possesses mystical powers. Captured, tortured and left for dead, he returns even more powerful than before. In desperation the invaders resurrect an evil wizard and set him against Jaka Sembung in a fierce fight to the death.
Primitives
Director
event1978 star_border 4.8
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Three students, Tommy, Rita, and Robert, and their guides head into the jungle to study primitive tribes separated from civilization. However, the students say the one tribe they visit isn't primitive enough, and they want to find some really savages, and to locate the legendary cannibal tribe supposedly living in the area.
Calong Arang the Powerful Queen
Director
event1985 star_border 6
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The evil witch Calon Arang uses black magic and strikes fear in the population in Bali during the 1000's. Her daughter Manggali, who can not find a man because everyone is afraid of her mother, instead of being nice to people and use their magic for good purposes.
Satan's Slave
Director
event1980 star_border 5.9
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A wealthy family stop practicing their Muslim faith and are tormented by the undead after their mother dies.
The Hungry Snake Woman
Director
event1986 star_border 4
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A man, convinced that money and power can secure love, flees into the woods after attempting to rape his ex-girlfriend. He encounters the Snake Queen, who promises him immense wealth in exchange for his servitude.
Death-Spreading Heirloom
Director
event1990
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A fantasy flick with Suzzanna and a lot of campy elements (including laser battles).
Samson Dan Delilah
Director
event1985 star_border 4.3
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Gory indonesian version of "Samson & Dalilah", starring Suzanna, the indonesian scream queen and directed by Sisworo Gautama Putra (the psycho who made Jaka Sembung, among others). In fact, this works like a rip off of Jaka Sembung but with Samson instead of Jaka. Gore and cheesyness for everybody!!!
Wolf
Director
event1981 star_border 5.8
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People on an island are brutally murdered one by one by a mysterious stranger in this Indonesian Friday the 13th rip-off.
The Return of Janda Kembang
Director
event1992 star_border 10
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Sequel to Misteri janda kembang (1991).
Sundel Bolong
Director
event1981 star_border 5.8
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A newly-married woman and former prostitute whose husband, a ship's captain, has gone to sea, is pressured into returning to her old profession. When she refuses, she is violently gang-raped and left pregnant and despondent. She kills herself while attempting to abort the fetus but returns as a vengeful Sundel Bolong, a ghost with a putrid, rotting hole in her back. When the rapists and conspirers start turning up dead, her husband and the police try to put a stop to the violence, once and for all.
The Snake Queen
Director
event1982 star_border 7
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A wealthy businessman gains his fortune through Nyi Blorong, sacrificing his wife and child in return, and later offers his daughter's boyfriend to satisfy her demand for more. His daughter, learning the truth in a dream, seeks help from a cleric to destroy Nyi Blorong.
The Snake Queen's Wedding
Director
event1983
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A great duel erupts between Tejo Arum, Nyi Blorong's lover, and King Dewacengkar, as rivals seek her affection. When Tejo Arum is defeated, Nyi Blorong aids him by transforming him into a giant powerful enough to crush his enemies. To regain his human form, Tejo Arum is forced to meditate for 350 years.
Sangkuriang
Director
event1982
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After swearing an oath to marry the one who picks up her weaving stick, Dayang Sumba embarks on an unexpected romance with a royal staff member.
Santet
Director
event1988 star_border 6
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As his wife is always ill, Bisman starts becoming attracted to Katemi. To possess Katemi, Bisman kills his wife and incites the villagers against Sarma, Katemi’s husband, for the murder. Sarma is then killed. Katemi escapes but falls into a cave where Nyi Angker lives. Katemi becomes Nyi Angker’s student. Meanwhile, Bisma takes over the position of the village head. He orders the villagers to find Katemi. The son of the old village head, Achmad, who has just returned from studying in a religious school, joins in the search. Katemi is found and returned to Bisman. But she already attained black magic powers. She takes her revenge on Bisman and leaves. From afar, Katemi keeps practicing her magic. Achmad tries to persuade her to stop but Nyi Angker will not allow it. Finally, Achmad manages to defeat Nyi Angker.
Santet 2
Director
event1989 star_border 6
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Katemi, shunned for past murders, is cursed by Nyi Angker's mentor, transforming her into a vicious tiger each night, brutally slaughtering villagers. Madness ensues as Katemi's nightly rampages continue, ripping people limb from limb.
Pact with the Forces of Darkness
Director
event1991 star_border 8.5
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Tragedy strikes when a group of thugs slaughter two children and their mother and father. Then, out of nowhere, a ghost of a sinister, thuggish looking man appears and walks toward the woman's body. Later, a couple moves into the house and encounters the ghosts of the two children. Even worse, the murdered woman, possessed by the evil male spirit, has returned as a ghost/zombie who can invade people's dreams and kill them. She has a glove just like Freddy Krueger and she makes use of it quite frequently. She seeks out those who killed her and her family, taking vengeance on them. But, eventually, she must be stopped, and that falls to a good priestess who must also face the male spirit within the woman. (zmdb.org)
Lake Eerie
Director
event1984 star_border 6.3
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Legend horror from Indonesia.
Aladin and the Magic Lamp
Director
event1982 star_border 7
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Aladin, a teenage orphan, finds a pile of treasure through a sorcerer who claims to be the older brother of his late father. In that place, he finds a magic lamp.
Awakening of the South Seas Queen
Director
event1985
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Students Ario, Joshua and Dudi investigate the legend of Nyi Roro Kidul ("The South Seas Queen") in South Lauta. They dive underwater, find the body of a dead woman, bring it ashore and it comes back to life as the beautiful Neneng (Suzzanna). Trouble and death follow.
The Night of Kliwon Friday
Director
event1986
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Ayu Sutrisna, a novelist, is suffering from a specific phobia that makes her hands shake and cold sweat to break out. Her boyfriend, Anton, suggests a more laid-back atmosphere. So she takes a retreat in an old house owned by Anton’s father. Then two guards of the house die in a horrible way when they try to rape her, seemingly killed by demons. Finally, Anton’s father admits that in the past, his wife gave birth to a baby one Friday night, and was killed.
Satu Suro Night
Director
event1988 star_border 6.7
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Malam Satu Suro is a romantic Indonesian horror movie directed by Gautama Putra Sisworo and starring Suzanna and Fendy Pradana. The film is known for its unique story line because it does not highlight the ghost as an antagonist but as the main character / protagonist. The film was distributed by Soraya Intercine Films.
Queen of the South Sea Spell
Director
event1991
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A competition between black magicians Anggoro (Johny Indo) and Lestari (Suzanna) results in Lestari being banished into the woods with a broken body. After he brother's death, she becomes suicidal until she runs across Ki Jagasatru (Clift Sangra), who comes from the South Seas with a recipe for revenge.
Incarnation of the Snake Goddess
Director
event1990 star_border 5
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A woman finds out she's the incarnation of the Goddess of Snakes, which she uses to her advantage in love and life.
Nyi Ageng the Decoy Queen
Director
event1983
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Increasingly jaded by how men treat women (including how her own mother is casually abused by her father), Nyi Ageng (Suzanna) decides that's not going to be the path for her. She's forced to marry a wealthy man who later dies under mysterious circumstances.
Wedding Night Mystery
Screenplay
event1993 star_border 10
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A rape / murder victim returns as a ghost to get even with the four men who killed her by possessing each man's bride on their wedding night.
I Know You Want It
Director
event1989
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Featuring the Warkop DKI group, Dono, Kasino, and Indro live in the same boarding house as Lisa and Selly. After reading the answers of a magazine quiz, Indro wonders if one of the girls in the boarding house is in love with him. After many jokes and funny situations, it turns out to be just a misunderstanding. Kasino himself is having terrible luck when, by mistake, a bank employee gives him more money that he has asked for. He intends to return the money but has to go through many comic situations and obstacles. Then it is Dono’s turn, who has a Caucasian girlfriend, to go through similar obstacles.
The Age of Turmoil
Director
event1986
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With her marriage to the unfaithful Iskandar already in the toilet, Susy goes cougar and tries her luck with several younger men. Leading lady Suzzanna gets a brief reprieve from starring in nothing but horror flicks in this Private Lessons-inspired drama.
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