Special Silencers

Special Silencers (Indonesian: Serbuan Halilintar) is a 1979 or 1982[note 1] Indonesian martial arts horror exploitation film directed by Arizal[1] and starring Barry Prima, Eva Arnaz and W. D. Mochtar. Prima plays Hendra, a man who arrives at a village where deaths are occurring as a result of red tablets—the titular "special silencers"—supplied by a forest-dwelling mystic; when ingested, the pills cause trees to burst from the consumer's stomach.[2][3]

Special Silencers
Promotional release poster
Directed byArizal
Starring
Production
company
P.T. Parkit Films
Release date
1979 or 1982
CountryIndonesia
LanguageIndonesian

The film's titular plot element may have been inspired by the chestburster scene in Alien (1979).[3][4]

Cast

Release

The earliest known verifiable listing of the film's release year is 1979, found in the 1997 book Mondo Macabro: Weird & Wonderful Cinema Around the World by Pete Tombs.[4] Donald C. Willis, in the 1997 book Horror and Science Fiction Films IV, lists the film's release year as "198-?",[5] while the 1999 book Stupid Movie Lines by Ross and Kathryn Petras lists its release date as "no date".[6] Blu-ray distributor Mondo Macabro lists the film's release year as 1982.[1]

Home media

Special Silencers was released on VHS in the Netherlands in the 1980s.[7] A restoration of the film is set to be released on Blu-ray by Mondo Macabro in late 2023.[7]

Reception

In 2015, author Clive Davies called Special Silencers "a ridiculous action/horror crossover [...] Unusual but slow-moving, until the exciting finale involving smelly shoe torture, rats, gore and booby traps."[3]

Notes
  1. See the Release section for details.

References
  1. "Newsletter #17". Mondo Macabro. Retrieved 22 June 2023.
  2. Tombs 1998, p. 72–73.
  3. Davies, Clive (2015). Spinegrinder: The Movies Most Critics Won't Write About. Headpress. p. 896. ISBN 978-1909394278.
  4. Tombs 1998, p. 72.
  5. Willis, Donald C. (1997). Horror and Science Fiction Films IV. Scarecrow Press. p. 469. ISBN 978-0810830554.
  6. Petras, Ross; Petras, Kathryn (1999). Stupid Movie Lines: The 776 Dumbest Things Ever Uttered on the Silver Screen. Villard. ISBN 978-0375753305.
  7. "Special Silencers limited red case edition". Mondo Macabro. Archived from the original on 21 October 2023. Retrieved 21 October 2023.

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