MYSTICS IN BALI (1981) LEAK MISTERIUS....????
Not for all tastes, "Mystics in Bali" (also known as "Leák" in its native Indonesia) is an entertaining "outsider" movie. By our highbrow western world standards, it's a bad movie -- but it's a good bad movie, if you know what I mean. It has all the charm of a cheesy Italian zombie film. Just none of the gore. It also boasts an extremely memorable flying severed heads, with lungs and other organs hanging from its neck.
When I generally think of Indonesia, I usually just envision Islamists rioting in the streets because of one U.S. atrocity or another. I never thought that a society with so much religious zeal could ever produce a piece of motion picture sleaze. But they're doing it -- or at least they were doing it in the early 1980s -- and "Mystics in Bali" is proof.
