A Woman Called Mother (2025)
Dia Bukan Ibu
Woman. Mother. Monster.
After her father’s death, Vira’s mother has a mental breakdown. To start fresh, the family moves to a new city and opens a hair salon together. While the family attempts to adjust to their new lives, Vira’s mother, Yanti, begins exhibiting strange, violent behavior reminiscent of her mental breakdown and becomes particularly preoccupied with her son’s sex life. Vira begins to investigate the strange occurrences and discovers that a dangerous ritual and a demonic possession are just the tip of the iceberg.
- Date of release
- 2025-09-25
- TMDB
- 6.5 / 10 (19)
- Runtime
- 1h 59m
- Genres
- Horror, Drama
- Director
- Randolph Zaini
Casting
- Aurora Ribero — Vira
- Artika Sari Devi — Yanti
- Ali Fikry — Dino
- Iskak Khivano — Uncle Jamal
- Sita Nursanti — Shaman Medea
- Dian Sidik — Heru
- Husein Alatas — Esa, Yanti's Husband
- Fara Shakila — Little Vira
- Saviera Andaru — Yanti's Body Double
Interesting facts
A Woman Called Mother is a 2025 Indonesian psychological horror film directed by Randolph Zaini. He, along with Titien Wattimena and Beta Inggrid Ayu Ningtyas, co-wrote the screenplay based on a thread posted by Jeropoint on X. It stars Artika Sari Devi, Aurora Ribero, and Ali Fikry.
Production
In September 2024, it was reported that MVP Pictures would adapt an X thread written by Jeropoint, with Randolph Zaini attached to direct. This marks Artika Sari Devi's first film appearance in six years, following Perjanjian Dengan Iblis in 2019.
Principal photography took place in Subang Regency, West Java.
Read on Wikipedia · Text from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Data from Wikidata.
Recommended
- Mother's Day 2010 · ★ 6.5
- A Nightmare on Elm Street 1984 · ★ 7.4
- Strange Darling 2024 · ★ 6.9
- Fear Street: 1994 2021 · ★ 6.7
- A Good Woman Is Hard to Find 2019 · ★ 6.1
- The Surrender 2025 · ★ 5.9
- Daddy's Head 2024 · ★ 5.9
- Barbarian 2022 · ★ 6.9
- Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte 1964 · ★ 7.3
- The Exorcist 1973 · ★ 7.8
- Antichrist 2009 · ★ 6.6
- Play Dead 2025 · ★ 6.3