I am sure we all sometimes get a package we didn’t actually order, now imagine opening it and discovering you’ve just received santet – that’s the idea behind A Delivery from Hell, originally titled Paket Santet, a 2026 Indonesian supernatural horror movie directed by Dinna Jasanti, where the film takes something completely ordinary – a parcel arriving at your house – and turns it into the starting point for a deadly curse.
And I have to admit, that’s a pretty good way of dragging an old supernatural belief into modern everyday life.
Don’t Open the Damn Package
Seven university students – Deva, Bella, Celia, Ale, Firza, Glen and Kiki – all receive mysterious packages with no sender’s name and no obvious reason for being delivered to them, but none of them ordered anything, so of course, they open them, and that’s when things start going very badly.
The packages become connected to a series of supernatural attacks, with the group forced to work out who sent them and, more importantly, how to stop the curse before it claims them one by one, and the official synopsis describes it as a race against time once the mysterious deliveries have turned their lives into a nightmare.
And unlike the usual horror-movie mistake of walking into the abandoned building because someone heard a noise, here the characters are doing something most of us would probably do without thinking twice – accepting a package.
From Santet to Doorstep Delivery
The word santet refers to a form of Indonesian black magic or supernatural attack traditionally associated with causing illness, suffering or misfortune to another person, and while films have used all sorts of unpleasant objects as the physical representation of the curse, A Delivery from Hell updates the idea in a very modern way.
The producers have specifically highlighted the fact that the supernatural attack arrives as a normal-looking package – complete with the sort of packaging, labels and delivery details you’d expect from something ordered online, and simply asks what happens when an old supernatural belief gets dropped into a world where people are constantly receiving deliveries.
And the film apparently uses bees as the medium of the santet, which producer Aoura Lovenson Chandra noted was a less familiar choice than some of the creatures usually associated with this sort of horror.
It all sounds quite interesting.
Dinna Jasanti Makes Her Horror Debut
This is also Dinna Jasanti’s first horror film as a director, which always makes a project a little more interesting – before this, she was better known for drama, comedy and family films, including Laura & Marsha, My Annoying Brother and Dua Hati Biru – the screenplay comes from Titien Wattimena, Obe Karel and Ambaridzki Ramadhantyo, with Aoura Lovenson Chandra, Shanty Harmayn, Tanya Yuson, Sari Mochtan, Muhammad Omar Azis and Vanesa Valensca among the producers. BASE Entertainment is behind the production.
The main cast includes Fatih Unru as Deva, Yasamin Jasem as Bella, Fadly Faisal as Ale, Gabriella Ekaputri as Celia, Fiki Naki as Firza, Farandika as Glen and Azela Putri as Kiki. The wider cast includes Vonny Anggraini, Aida Nurmala, M. Iqbal Sulaiman, Adam Farrel, Elly D. Luthan and Adjie N.A.
There’s an interesting mix of performers here too, with Fiki Naki, who is known primarily as a content creator, making the move into acting, and he apparently found the transition challenging because he was much more accustomed to creating YouTube content than performing in a film, which I would guess would go without saying for most people.
When Indonesian Folklore Meets Online Shopping
What I like about A Delivery from Hell is that it doesn’t seem interested in pretending the old folklore has disappeared just because everyone has smartphones now – quite the opposite – the film takes something deeply familiar within Indonesian supernatural culture – santet – and gives it a delivery address.
That’s a pretty simple idea, but it makes the folklore immediately understandable in a modern setting, so you don’t need a character explaining pages of mythology before the horror starts. There’s a box at the door. Someone opens it. Something terrible happens.
I also like the fact that the film isn’t using some distant haunted village as the starting point, as these are students, they’re dealing with something that looks completely ordinary, and the threat enters their lives through something that would normally be completely boring, and that’s the sort of modernisation of folklore I find much more interesting than simply taking an old legend and putting it in a different location.
Who Sent It?
A Delivery from Hell is scheduled to open in Indonesian cinemas on August 27, 2026, with the Indonesian Film Censorship Board listing it at 98 minutes and classifying it as horror for viewers aged 13 and over.
I’m curious about this one because the basic question is a good one – who the hell is sending these packages, and why these people?
That’s enough to carry a horror movie for me if the supernatural stuff is handled well, and Im also interested in seeing what Dinna Jasanti does with the material given that this is her first horror film – The premise has plenty of room for some nasty imagery, but it could just as easily turn into another fairly standard curse movie if it relies too heavily on jump scares.
Still, a package containing santet turning up at your front door is a hell of a lot more interesting to me than another haunted-house setup, and considering how many packages most of us receive these days, it’s also annoyingly easy to imagine.
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