Each October, the Unsung Horrors podcast does a month of themed movies. This year they will once again be setting up a fundraiser to benefit Best Friends, which is working to save the lives of cats and dogs all across America, giving pets second chances and happy homes.

Today’s theme: Slasher

Sisworo Gautama Putra also made Satan’s Slaves, but we’re here today to discuss his take on Friday the 13th, made just a year after that film did big box office. Srigala (Wolf) starts with divers trying to find treasure at the bottom of a lake, but stay with it. Soon enough, you’ll start to think that you’re in another country’s Crystal Lake.

Caroko (S. Parya), Tom (Barry Prima!) and Johan (Rudy Salam) are the diving crew who hope to find those trinkets underwater. Yet they have to deal with teen campers Nina (Lydia Kandou), Pono (Dorman Borisman) and Hesty (Siska Widowati). The tough guys try and scare the young fellows off with tales of demons in the woods, but once the ladies take in the hunky young swimmers, they’re staying put.

After being chased by a boat that blows up real good – a dynamite throwing speedboat, no less — Hesty and Nina have a catfight over Johan, which one assumes was for the foreign investors. Everyone gets broken up and goes to sleep, but that night, this movie forgets that it’s a Vorhees movie and has zombies rise from the graves that the hunters disturbed. It’s all a dream, but one that looks like Lucio Fulci and Dario Argento were not unknown in Indonesia.

But now, almost at the end of the movie, it remembers what it is and starts following the script. It even leaves a final girl to deal with an evil older woman, but this film’s killer isn’t motivated by the death of her son. Instead, she’s Miss Hilda (Mieke Wijaya) and she’s killed Mr. Hilda and drowned his body — and his treasure — in the lake where she’s keeping it.

Miss Hilda does not discuss this place or being an old acquaintance of the Christies.

But…this does end with the final girl being attacked by the husband’s zombie form while she sleeps on a boat. It looks exactly the same as where it was ripped off from.

What it does not take from Sean Cunningham is a young man being kicked in the balls so hard that they make sound effects. And a killer with a ninja hood for a mask! I love that this takes the most basic notes from Jason’s first movie — well, we all know Jason wasn’t in it until the dream sequence and flashbacks — and goes its own way.

You can get this from Terror Vision.