Timo Tjahjanto

Timo Tjahjanto

Birth : 1980-01-01, Wilhelmshaven, Germania

History

Timo Tjahjanto is an Indonesian film director and screenwriter. Born in 1980, he has been fascinated with film since an early age. He admitted watching Psycho at young age and has left him with “strong impression and somehow transform it into passion.” Akira Kurosawa, Martin Scorsese, Roman Polanski are some of the filmmakers who have influenced and shaped his film appreciation and creative ideas. After returning from his studies in Australia his first feature film project as a director was Rumah Dara (Macabre) in 2007, Timo co-directed this along with Kimo Stamboel together they are known as the Mo Brothers. Rumah Dara is the feature film based on “Dara” – a slasher/black comedy short film that he shot in 2008 which was released with other short horror films in horror compilation Takut: Faces of Fear in 2009. Rumah Dara was also one of the official selection features at PiFAN – International Fantastic Film Festival in 2009 in South Korea.

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Timo Tjahjanto

Movies

The Big 4
Producer
A by-the-book female detective teams up with four down-on-their-luck assassins to investigate her father's murder.
The Big 4
Writer
A by-the-book female detective teams up with four down-on-their-luck assassins to investigate her father's murder.
The Big 4
Director
A by-the-book female detective teams up with four down-on-their-luck assassins to investigate her father's murder.
Perempuan Bergaun Merah
Producer
Dinda is an introverted student who is terrorized by a female ghost in a red dress. However, Dinda's concern for her sister and best friend makes Dinda never give up on solving the mystery she faces, even though her life is threatened. Putra, his friend, always helps Dinda uncover the figure of the woman in the red dress that haunts her.
The Subject
Writer
A demented prosthetics genius performing unethical experiments on living tissue attempts to perfect his biomechanical magnum opus.
The Subject
Director
A demented prosthetics genius performing unethical experiments on living tissue attempts to perfect his biomechanical magnum opus.
V/H/S/94
Writer
A mysterious VHS tape leads a police S.W.A.T. team to the discovery of a sinister cult whose collection of pre-recorded material reveals a nightmarish conspiracy.
V/H/S/94
Director
A mysterious VHS tape leads a police S.W.A.T. team to the discovery of a sinister cult whose collection of pre-recorded material reveals a nightmarish conspiracy.
May the Devil Take You Too
Producer
Two years after escaping from demonic terror, a young woman is still haunted by unnatural vision. The dangers that await her and her friends are increasingly threatening.
May the Devil Take You Too
Writer
Two years after escaping from demonic terror, a young woman is still haunted by unnatural vision. The dangers that await her and her friends are increasingly threatening.
May the Devil Take You Too
Director
Two years after escaping from demonic terror, a young woman is still haunted by unnatural vision. The dangers that await her and her friends are increasingly threatening.
Portals
Writer
A series of worldwide blackouts cause millions of mysterious cosmic anomalies to appear everywhere across the planet. Some people are drawn into them with horrifying consequences.
Portals
Director
A series of worldwide blackouts cause millions of mysterious cosmic anomalies to appear everywhere across the planet. Some people are drawn into them with horrifying consequences.
Hit & Run
Executive Producer
Celebrity cop Tegar Saputra is assigned to catch Coki, a drug lord recently released from prison. Tegar, who usually works alone, has to team up with con artist Lio, dangdut singer Meisa and cocky teenager Jefri, making his mission particularly challenging.
The Night Comes for Us
Screenplay
After sparing a girl's life during a massacre, an elite Triad assassin is targeted by an onslaught of murderous gangsters.
The Night Comes for Us
Producer
After sparing a girl's life during a massacre, an elite Triad assassin is targeted by an onslaught of murderous gangsters.
The Night Comes for Us
Director
After sparing a girl's life during a massacre, an elite Triad assassin is targeted by an onslaught of murderous gangsters.
May the Devil Take You
Screenplay
Hoping to find answers to her estranged father's mysterious illness, a young woman visits his old villa and uncovers a horrifying truth from the past.
May the Devil Take You
Director
Hoping to find answers to her estranged father's mysterious illness, a young woman visits his old villa and uncovers a horrifying truth from the past.
Headshot
Writer
A young man washes ashore, his memory gone - but his past comes back to haunt him after he is nursed back to health and his killing ability is needed when he takes on a powerful drug lord.
Headshot
Director
A young man washes ashore, his memory gone - but his past comes back to haunt him after he is nursed back to health and his killing ability is needed when he takes on a powerful drug lord.
Killers
Producer
A psychotic executive triggers a journalist's dark side, and they begin to form a strange bond through the internet.
Killers
Writer
A psychotic executive triggers a journalist's dark side, and they begin to form a strange bond through the internet.
Killers
Director
A psychotic executive triggers a journalist's dark side, and they begin to form a strange bond through the internet.
V/H/S/2
Writer
Inside a darkened house looms a column of TVs littered with VHS tapes, a pagan shrine to forgotten analog gods. The screens crackle and pop endlessly with monochrome vistas of static white noise permeating the brain and fogging concentration. But you must fight the urge to relax: this is no mere movie night. Those obsolete spools contain more than just magnetic tape. They are imprinted with the very soul of evil.
V/H/S/2
Story
Inside a darkened house looms a column of TVs littered with VHS tapes, a pagan shrine to forgotten analog gods. The screens crackle and pop endlessly with monochrome vistas of static white noise permeating the brain and fogging concentration. But you must fight the urge to relax: this is no mere movie night. Those obsolete spools contain more than just magnetic tape. They are imprinted with the very soul of evil.
V/H/S/2
Director
Inside a darkened house looms a column of TVs littered with VHS tapes, a pagan shrine to forgotten analog gods. The screens crackle and pop endlessly with monochrome vistas of static white noise permeating the brain and fogging concentration. But you must fight the urge to relax: this is no mere movie night. Those obsolete spools contain more than just magnetic tape. They are imprinted with the very soul of evil.
The ABCs of Death
Writer
An ambitious anthology film featuring segments directed by over two dozen of the world's leading talents in contemporary genre film. Inspired by children's educational ABC books, the film comprises 26 individual chapters, each helmed by a different director assigned a letter of the alphabet. The directors were then given free reign in choosing a word to create a story involving death.
The ABCs of Death
Director
An ambitious anthology film featuring segments directed by over two dozen of the world's leading talents in contemporary genre film. Inspired by children's educational ABC books, the film comprises 26 individual chapters, each helmed by a different director assigned a letter of the alphabet. The directors were then given free reign in choosing a word to create a story involving death.
Safe Haven
Story
A news crew goes into an Indonesian cult to report the goings-on. It is alluded to that the "father" or founder of the cult sleeps with the children to "purify" them. The interviewer hears a conversation between his fiancée and his best friend, both of whom are crew members, and finds out that she's pregnant with his best friend's baby.
Safe Haven
Writer
A news crew goes into an Indonesian cult to report the goings-on. It is alluded to that the "father" or founder of the cult sleeps with the children to "purify" them. The interviewer hears a conversation between his fiancée and his best friend, both of whom are crew members, and finds out that she's pregnant with his best friend's baby.
Safe Haven
Director
A news crew goes into an Indonesian cult to report the goings-on. It is alluded to that the "father" or founder of the cult sleeps with the children to "purify" them. The interviewer hears a conversation between his fiancée and his best friend, both of whom are crew members, and finds out that she's pregnant with his best friend's baby.
L is for Libido
Writer
A man awakens naked and strapped to a chair, with another man in the same position. Both are forced to masturbate to a series of increasingly disturbing acts, with the last one to climax getting impaled.
L is for Libido
Director
A man awakens naked and strapped to a chair, with another man in the same position. Both are forced to masturbate to a series of increasingly disturbing acts, with the last one to climax getting impaled.
Macabre
Writer
Six friends are captured and tortured by a murderous family after giving a ride home to a desperate stranger.
Macabre
Director
Six friends are captured and tortured by a murderous family after giving a ride home to a desperate stranger.
The Forbidden Door
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Gambir is an artist whose success masks a dark and shameful secret. which may be nothing compared to the sordid details of the past that his wife keeps hidden behind a mysterious door in their home.
Takut: Faces of Fear
Writer
"Takut" was born from the Komodo Films, and is a compilation of short horror films from seven directors who produced six film segments in one anthology. The short film was directed sequentially by Rako Prijanto, Riri Riza, Ray Nayoan, Robby Ertanto, Raditya Sidharta, and The Mo Brothers (Kimo Stamboel & Timo Tjahjanto).
Takut: Faces of Fear
Producer
"Takut" was born from the Komodo Films, and is a compilation of short horror films from seven directors who produced six film segments in one anthology. The short film was directed sequentially by Rako Prijanto, Riri Riza, Ray Nayoan, Robby Ertanto, Raditya Sidharta, and The Mo Brothers (Kimo Stamboel & Timo Tjahjanto).
Takut: Faces of Fear
Director
"Takut" was born from the Komodo Films, and is a compilation of short horror films from seven directors who produced six film segments in one anthology. The short film was directed sequentially by Rako Prijanto, Riri Riza, Ray Nayoan, Robby Ertanto, Raditya Sidharta, and The Mo Brothers (Kimo Stamboel & Timo Tjahjanto).
Quickie Express
Teman Teddy
Jojo is an unemployed. He decides to become a gigolo for an escort company. Everything works smoothly until he falls in love with a medical student.
Dara
Producer
Dara, an enigmatic beautiful woman with Macabre secrets invite an unwitting bachelor into her house, when two unexpected suitors came to visit, all hell breaks loose.
Dara
Writer
Dara, an enigmatic beautiful woman with Macabre secrets invite an unwitting bachelor into her house, when two unexpected suitors came to visit, all hell breaks loose.
Dara
Director
Dara, an enigmatic beautiful woman with Macabre secrets invite an unwitting bachelor into her house, when two unexpected suitors came to visit, all hell breaks loose.
Bunian
Director of Photography
Andra, who is studying at the Sydney University of Technology, is looking for a house. Then she finally gets an apartment and shares it with some Indonesian students. As they become closer, love grows and conflicts arise. One day, Andra sees a ghost in the apartment.
The Last Train to New York
Director
English-language remake of the South Korean zombie film "Train to Busan" (2016).
The Blind Warrior: Angel's Eyes
Director