
Rizal Mantovani
Directing
Biography
Rizal has a degree in Architecture and started directing music videos in 1992. His work has won him several awards, both domestic and international. To date, he has over 400 music videos under his belt, twelve feature films, several television commercials and numerous music video awards, including an MTV 'Moon Man' for the 1995 MTV ASIA Viewer's Choice award for the video 'Sambutlah' performed by Denada. 'Kuldesak' (1998) was his first feature film in which he co-directed with three other Indonesian directors, Nan T. Achnas, Mira Lesmana and Riri Riza. His second feature, in which he co-directed with fellow music video director Jose Poernomo titled 'Jelangkung' became the biggest box office draw for 2001 in the country. His follow up, is the 'Kuntilanak Trilogy' was also well-received, in which 'Kuntilanak', the first of the franchise, became the biggest box office draw for 2006 and 'Kuntilanak 3' (the third installment in the franchise) won him the 'best director' award at 2008 the Bali Film Festival.
Known For

Four hikers become trapped in a mysterious village after getting lost in a mountain foot market said to be an interdimensional gateway. There, the world turns strange—graveyards with no headstones, grinning bald figures, puppets with no puppeteer, and cult rituals dancing atop corpses. It all leads to one chilling truth: those who are trapped can never leave. The village is preparing a dark ritual to fill the hamlet with the dead. Faced with harrowing choices, can they survive—and make it home alive?
Village of the Dead

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Antares

An evil spirit seeking vengeance returns to plague the town that wronged her sister. Based on a chilling urban legend.
Sumala

Ira lives with her mother, Linda. One day, without any rational explanation, a mystical incident causes Linda to behave like a madwoman—suffering physically and frequently hallucinating. Unable to cope with her mother's condition, Ira asks her siblings, Ara and Ari, to come home and help take care of their mother. Unfortunately, fate has other plans, and Linda eventually passes away.
Tenung

When Alex starts to get bored with his life with his wife Lara, and tries to find a beautiful escape, he meets Nadine who is also trapped in a complicated relationship with her husband, Erwin. Dare to Play with Fire but do you also dare to bear the risk?
The Dangerous Affair

Lena and her brother, Benhur, moved from Jakarta to Malang for college and stayed in a cozy boarding house owned by Mrs. Astri and Mr. Wiryo. Every week, all tenants gathered for a communal dinner. However, the peace turned into terror when a tenant had a strange dream and claimed the house was haunted, even seeing a hanging pocong. At first, no one believed it—until Lena saw it herself. This was no ordinary boarding house. The price to stay wasn’t money, but lives.
Take Me to Hell

Soon after getting married, couple Maya and Andi begin to experience eerie disturbances from unseen malevolent forces.
Poison Sangga: The Homewrecker's Curse

Newly cancer-free, Purnama heads to a resort getaway. But her train ride quickly turns ghastly as passengers start to vanish—one carriage at a time.
The Train of Death

A collection of short movie compilation directed by Rizal Mantovani. In 9 episodes, MALAPATAKA tells the tales of the danger lurking for people who belittled the mystical beliefs in society.
Malapataka

A group of kids agree to explore an abandon house in order to win a reality show contest, which requires them to prove that the stories of the evil Kuntilanak are real. They soon discover that the ghost is very much real when it appears from an old mirror and starts haunting them.
The Chanting: Revisited

After adopting Ana, Sylvia realizes that she did not only bring Ana home, but also Asih, the ghost who has been Ana's foster mother.
Asih 2

Five friends embark on a mission to climb the highest peak in Java, overcoming obstacles on the way and discovering the true meaning of friendship.
5 cm

Sophie and her family returned to her childhood home that she had not visited in a long time. However, they experienced terror of disturbances. They also tried to find out what really happened.
Rumah Kentang: The Beginning

Mumun and Juned are lovers, but Juned feels terrible after losing Mumun in a horrible accident. The gravedigger, however, forgot to fulfill Mumun's burial procession properly, and now he has risen from the grave.
Mumun

Dinda who escapes the Kuntilanak (female vampire ghost) terror, without the agreement of Aunt Donna, intends to meet someone who is believed to be her biological mother, Karmila. Together with his younger siblings and accompanied by Julia and Edwin, they are trapped in a house in the middle of the forest. Many irregularities occur. Dinda again has to deal with Kuntilanak, but it was different from what she had defeated using spikes or spells.
Kuntilanak 2

Dinda who wants to be able to control her power goes to Mata Hati School. A place where a child with special powers learns to control his strengths, but unexpected dangers follow him wherever he goes. Can Dinda survive there?
Kuntilanak 3

When a woman becomes possessed by an evil spirit, a team of horror-mystery journalists goes to the village that the spirit came from to try to free her.
Jurnal Risa by Risa Saraswati

When he can't find his sister after she plays hide-and-seek, an older brother must search a decrepit house cursed by a malevolent presence.
Petak Umpet

While restoring an old mansion, the project's team uncovers a cursed heirloom, releasing a deadly force that threatens their lives.
The Heirloom

Isabella experienced something in the autopsy room when dissecting a female body that came without identity. It changed all the views of her life.