🕯️ Sakaratul Maut (2024) — Between Breath and Silence, Something Waits. 👁️🕯️💀

In the hour of death, you don’t meet peace. You meet what you buried.

In the deepest hours of the night, when breath falters and silence grows thick, there exists a moment no man escapes — sakaratul maut, the agony of death. Sakaratul Maut (2024) is a spiritual horror thriller that burrows into the soul’s most terrifying journey: the thin line between this life… and what comes after.

Set in a remote Indonesian village, the film follows Rania, a skeptical medical intern sent to assist at a rural clinic where patients die mysteriously — eyes open, hands clenched, mouths whispering in languages no one speaks anymore. But it's not the deaths that disturb her most… it’s the fact that they all seem to see something — or someone — before they go.

Drawn to an ancient house at the edge of the village, Rania encounters an old woman who speaks only in Qur’anic verses, and a child who hasn’t spoken in years. Night after night, Rania begins to suffer sleep paralysis. A black figure sits at the foot of her bed. Doors open to nowhere. She hears the whisper: "You’re next."

The film weaves Islamic eschatology with supernatural horror in a style reminiscent of The Medium and Hereditary, immersing the viewer in layers of folklore, guilt, and spiritual reckoning. As Rania digs deeper, she uncovers that the village was once a site of forbidden exorcisms — rituals interrupted mid-prayer. And now, the souls left behind want someone to finish what they started.

Terrifyingly quiet and unnervingly spiritual, Sakaratul Maut is not just about dying — it’s about what refuses to let go when you should already be gone.