Hellen I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

Cleveronix A different way of telling a story

Forumrxes Yo, there's no way for me to review this film without saying, take your *insert ethnicity + "ass" here* to see this film,like now. You have to see it in order to know what you're really messing with.

Billy Ollie Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

BA_Harrison Cathy (Ilona Agathe Bastian), an American student of witchcraft, travels to Bali in order to learn about Leák, the most powerful of all black magic. With the help of local man Mahendra (Yos Santo), Cathy becomes an apprentice of the Leák queen (Sofia W.D.), an ugly old hag who talks like Yoda and laughs like Salacious Crumb. But although the queen seems happy to reveal the secrets of her dark arts, she is actually using the young woman to increase her own powers, detaching Cathy's head from her body and sending it on night-time missions to collect the regenerating blood of new-born infants.Despite featuring such bonkers sights as a flying head with vampire teeth and dangling entrails feeding on a woman about to give birth, talking fireballs engaged in mortal combat, Cathy and the queen transforming into animals (including a pig creature with breasts!!), Cathy vomiting up live mice in green goop after a night spent in the form of a snake, and a supernatural showdown with lightning bolts and electric fingers, Mystics in Bali isn't quite as enjoyable as one might imagine: the action is rather repetitive, the queen's incessant manic laughter gets really, really annoying, Mahendra's romance with Cathy is as dull as ditch-water (no gratuitous nudity here, folks!), and the visual effects are absolutely dire.For a slightly more satisfying example of Indonesian craziness, check out The Queen of Black Magic.

pj75pj75 This film has an atmosphere of creeping evil and a sense of the presence of the unknown that's highly unnerving. It's something to do with the almost documentary like way it's shot. The most bizarre scenes and exotic transformations are shown straightforwardly, with no hint of flashiness. And this makes them even more strange and unsettling. In many ways it's reminiscent of Cocteau's theory of the fantastic, approaching it from the perspective of realism rather than announcing how strange it is through camera angles and clever tricks.There's no denying that the film was shot on a shoestring. However, the obvious commitment of all involved and the unusual use of the scope frame lift it to a level above that of many low budget Asian horrors of the period. It actually makes a virtue of its limited means, forcing us to use our own imagination to fill in the blanks.Anyone searching for something out of the ordinary, something truly unique, will find lots to treasure in Mystics in Bali. It's a film that can be watched again and again. It has an almost hypnotic quality that draws the sympathetic viewer into a strange, hallucinatory dream.

fertilecelluloid "Leak" is a more appropriate title, but "Mystics in Bali" will suffice. In the early 80's, Indonesia had a healthy fantasy film industry and this became one of its poster children. It's really quite a silly, juvenile horror flick with awful performances, inventive but cheesy effects, and some hackneyed ideas.The Baliness people are known for being quite laid back and philosophical about life. Their days aren't ruled by the clock and they don't exhibit a great deal of stress. One interesting exchange of dialog is testament to this admirable demeanor; it goes something like this --Demon: "I want fresh blood." American girl: "Not right now. I'm busy." The premise is simple. An American woman asks her Balinese boyfriend to help her learn about the black arts in Bali. The helpful chap arranges for her to meet the local Leak, a shape-changing demon who laughs a lot. Before you can say "Flying Head!", the Leak and the American lass are holding laughing parties and upsetting the peace.The premise is little more than an excuse to wheel out a barrow full of surreal effects.Because everything is so matter-of-fact (the local exorcists sit down for a smoke before charging off to exterminate demons), the tone is more amusing than scary. Come to think of it, showing them this film might be a good way to get children interested in horror. Or swearing off it for life.

haimoff This is the story about a woman doing research on black magic. After having learned everything about Voodoo, she travels to Indonesia to meat and great "Leak", a monster-ghost. Nearly everything is horrible in this movie, from the special-effects, over the acting to the story. On the other side it's so bad that it becomes funny. Everybody in the movie-theater was laughing tears (what you can not say of most of the newer Eddie Murphy Films). So if you have the chance to see this Indonesian horror movie do it ! In Europe this film was shown under the title of "Mystics in Bali".There are many strange horror-fantasy- films from countries like Pakistan, Philippines, Indonesia and even Nigeria and Ghana to discover if you are open minded enough