Creating a Comedy Horror Film 'SEKAWAN LIMO', Bayu Skak Claims the Initial Idea Came While Listening to a Podcast in the Car

Kapanlagi.com - After the success of the YOWIS BEN series, Bayu Skak collaborated with the production house Starvision to create another film in the Malang language. This time, it's a comedy horror titled SEKAWAN LIMO.

Bayu said that the initial idea for making this film was quite unique. It came to him while traveling from Malang to Jakarta by car, where he often listened to horror podcasts discussing scary stories about mountain climbing.

"The idea came during the Covid period when I often drove from Malang to Jakarta for ten hours. In the car, I always listened to the number one horror podcast, and it was always about mountain climbing. That's where the idea came from," Bayu said when met at Epicentrum XXI, Rasuna Said area, South Jakarta, on Thursday (27/6).

1. Developed into Synopsis

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After getting the initial idea, Bayu Skak immediately developed it with the team at Skak Studios. He then gave the synopsis to Starvision, which was immediately approved to be developed into a film.

"From that idea, it was developed into a synopsis titled SEKAWAN LIMO. When I went to Starvision and offered several titles, Mr. Chand Parwez (producer) liked this one to be realized," said Bayu.

2. Breaking the Climbing Myths

Chand Parwez himself admitted to being interested when reading the initial synopsis of SEKAWAN LIMO. Therefore, he immediately agreed to bring it to the big screen.

"Since I got the synopsis from Bayu, I immediately fell in love," said Chand Parwez on the same occasion.

SEKAWAN LIMO tells the story of a group of young people who climb Mount Madyopuro. There, they break the myth of the number of groups and are forbidden to look back or be followed. Therefore, they are disturbed by supernatural creatures.

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