Sisworo Gautama Putra

Directing

Sisworo Gautama Putra

Born — Died

1938-05-26 — 1993-01-05

Place of birth

Kisaran, North Sumatra, Dutch East Indies

Known for

Directing

Credits

31 titles

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, an…

Known for

Sundel Bolong poster
5.3

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.

Sundel Bolong

1981

Satan's Slave poster
6.0

A wealthy family stop practicing their Muslim faith and are tormented by the undead after their mother dies.

Satan's Slave

1980

Primitives poster
5.1

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.

Primitives

1978

The Snake Queen poster
7.5

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

1982

The Warrior poster
6.4

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.

The Warrior

1981

The Hungry Snake Woman poster
5.2

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.

The Hungry Snake Woman

1986

Film credits

Behind the camera

Sundel Bolong poster
5.3

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.

Sundel Bolong

1981

Satan's Slave poster
6.0

A wealthy family stop practicing their Muslim faith and are tormented by the undead after their mother dies.

Satan's Slave

1980

Satan's Slave poster
6.0

A wealthy family stop practicing their Muslim faith and are tormented by the undead after their mother dies.

Satan's Slave

1980

Primitives poster
5.1

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.

Primitives

1978

The Snake Queen poster
7.5

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

1982

The Warrior poster
6.4

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.

The Warrior

1981

The Hungry Snake Woman poster
5.2

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.

The Hungry Snake Woman

1986

Santet poster
5.7

After poisoning his wife, local gangster Bisman blames her death on the village cleric and instigates an outraged mob to burn down his hut, killing him in the process. The cleric’s wife Katemi escapes into the jungle, eventually meeting Nyi Angker, a half-crocodile half-witch who gives Katemi diabolical powers, thus allowing her to commence a bloody revenge.

Santet

1988

Srigala poster
5.5

People on an island are brutally murdered one by one by a mysterious stranger in this Indonesian Friday the 13th rip-off.

Srigala

1981

Lake Eerie poster
6.5

Indonesian genre actress Suzzanna headlines this Sisworo Gautama Putra directed vengeful ghost yarn that has a shroud clad female spirit who is summoned to pursue after a group of thuggish thieves who kill the parents and grandmother of a young boy after they get into a martial arts brawl with the father.

Lake Eerie

1984

Wedding Night Mystery poster
10.0

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.

Wedding Night Mystery

1993

Sangkuriang poster
4.0

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.

Sangkuriang

1982

The Age of Turmoil poster
NR

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.

The Age of Turmoil

1986

Satu Suro Night poster
6.7

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.

Satu Suro Night

1988

Santet 2: Wanita Harimau poster
4.3

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.

Santet 2: Wanita Harimau

1989

Pact with the Forces of Darkness poster
8.5

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)

Pact with the Forces of Darkness

1991

Pact with the Forces of Darkness poster
8.5

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)

Pact with the Forces of Darkness

1991

Kliwon Friday Night poster
NR

Ayu Sutrisna, a novelist, is suffering from a phobia that causes her hands to shake and cold sweats to break out. Her boyfriend, Anton, suggests a more laid-back atmosphere. So, she takes a retreat in an old house that the two find abandoned on an exploration. Soon, she discovers that the house hides a secret and is haunted by the legendary sundel balong, a vengeful spirit with a strange anatomical anomaly.

Kliwon Friday Night

1986

Aladin and the Magic Lamp poster
7.0

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.

Aladin and the Magic Lamp

1982

Aladin and the Magic Lamp poster
7.0

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.

Aladin and the Magic Lamp

1982

The Return of the Merry Widow poster
9.0

Sequel to Mystery of the Merry Widow (1991).

The Return of the Merry Widow

1992

Calon Arang the Powerful Queen poster
8.0

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.

Calon Arang the Powerful Queen

1985

Queen of the South Sea Spell poster
NR

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.

Queen of the South Sea Spell

1991

Nyi Ageng the Decoy Queen poster
NR

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.

Nyi Ageng the Decoy Queen

1983

I Know You Want It poster
NR

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.

I Know You Want It

1989

The Snake Queen's Wedding poster
5.0

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.

The Snake Queen's Wedding

1983

No artwork available
NR

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.

Awakening of the South Seas Queen

1985

No artwork available
NR

A fantasy flick with Suzzanna and a lot of campy elements (including laser battles).

Death-Spreading Heirloom

1990

Incarnation of the Snake Goddess poster
5.0

A woman finds out she's the incarnation of the Goddess of Snakes, which she uses to her advantage in love and life.

Incarnation of the Snake Goddess

1990

Samson Dan Delilah poster
4.8

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!!!

Samson Dan Delilah

1985