Grave Torture

Grave Torture

Year: 2024

Runtime: 117 mins

Language: Indonesian

Director: Joko Anwar

Echo Score: 72

Budget: $5B

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You Shall Believe. When a violent act kills her parents, Sita vows to debunk the idea of supernatural torment after death — a fixation that leads her on a dark quest.

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Trace every key event in Grave Torture (2024) with our detailed, chronological timeline. Perfect for unpacking nonlinear stories, spotting hidden connections, and understanding how each scene builds toward the film’s climax. Whether you're revisiting or decoding for the first time, this timeline gives you the full picture.

1

Family life in a small bakery

Sita and Adil live with their parents above a small family bakery, sharing a quiet, ordinary life. Their world is shattered when a suicide bombing kills their parents. The bomber is driven by religious fear of Siksa Kubur and eternal torment after death.

Opening scene Family bakery
2

Holding room and the mixtape

The siblings are taken to a holding room for questioning after the attack. They are found with a mixtape, and when it's played, the phrase Siksa Kubur echoes with chilling screams and disturbing noises that hint at supernatural torment.

Immediately after bombing Holding room
3

Boarding school to cope

Following the tragedy, Sita and Adil are sent to a boarding school to cope with their loss. The experience plants the seeds of Sita's fixation with Siksa Kubur, as she wrestles with the idea of punishment after death.

Shortly after tragedy Boarding school
4

Sita's dangerous quest begins

Years later, Sita becomes obsessed with disproving the concept of grave torture and embarks on a dangerous quest to locate the most sinful individuals. She believes exposing counterexamples will prove Siksa Kubur is a myth, though the mission strains her relationships and sanity.

Years after boarding school Various locations
5

Adil remains faithful

While Sita pursues her controversial mission, Adil distances himself from the pursuit but remains spiritually intact. He endures the strain without abandoning his faith.

During the same period Various locations
6

Adult Sita in nursing and cemeteries

As an adult, Sita works in a nursing home, continuing her fixation on the afterlife. She begins visiting cemeteries, seeking evidence about what happens to the deceased, particularly those believed to be sinners.

Present day Nursing home; cemeteries
7

Supernatural signs intensify

Graves appear cursed and the spirits of the damned begin to manifest in horrifying forms. Sita's rational disbelief is challenged as eerie phenomena escalate around her.

Present day Cemeteries
8

Torment reaches the living world

Corpses show signs of torment, with grotesque mutilations and snakes slithering into the mouths of the dead. The supernatural experiences push Sita toward accepting that something beyond science is at work.

Present day Graves, cemeteries
9

Sita enters the sinner's grave

In the climax, Sita literally enters the grave of a notorious sinner to confront the truth about the afterlife. Inside, she witnesses an unimaginably horrific punishment.

Climax Grave of sinner
10

Siksa Kubur revealed

The sinner's soul endures horrific punishment, and Sita's skepticism crumbles as she realizes Siksa Kubur is real. She recognizes that she herself may face the same fate.

Climax Inside the grave/afterlife realm
11

Nightmarish realm and ambiguous fate

The final scenes show Sita trapped in a terrifying realm where the souls of the damned suffer eternal torment. The ending leaves her fate ambiguous but strongly implies doom for her disbelieving soul.

Ending Nightmarish realm
12

Adil's distance and faith intact

Meanwhile, Adil remains distant but unscathed, having kept his faith intact throughout their ordeal. He stands apart from Sita's ordeal, seemingly unaffected by the events.

Ending

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