Lame cinema Well, I've seen this movie... And drew attention to the following trend: the south of the Asian horror extends its dead pale hands, the more stupid dialogues seem, the acting is indistinct and the scenery is incongruous. However, even these seemingly huge disadvantages are not able to deprive this and similar films of a certain amount of attractiveness, a highlight generated by the interweaving of historical, cultural, folklore traditions with cinema.
But first a few words about the story. So here's a women's basketball squad that needs to return from nowhere to Jakarta. To go on the road, as you guessed, the heroes decide at night. Among the characters, the assistant head coach Der, his beloved Lina, the sloppy fools Med and Boym, as well as the beauty Shanti and her slave girlfriend Gina, are at the forefront. On the way, a bus with heroes has to turn off the main road, and soon it crashes, in which the driver dies. Looking out the window, the heroes find themselves stuck in the middle of the cemetery. Taking on the burden of the leader Der offers to leave the bus and go for help, especially since one of the girls is seriously injured, and the bus under the weight of the people in it gradually sinks into the viscous cemetery soil. Not everyone agreed with him, and as a result Shanti, Gina and two other girls remain on the bus.
Der and the company make their way through the cemetery. Soon two stupid sheep broke away from the herd and immediately paid for it with their lives. The rest of the boys reach the abandoned building, which turns out to be a hospital preserved from the era when Indonesia was still the Dutch East Indies and Jakarta was Batavia. Heroes get inside and begin to explore it.
Next we see the horribly stupid and drawn-out scene of the search for the missing girlfriend, Tari. A girl who is lying down on an old dusty bed suddenly disappears. Her disappearance is preceded by her own heartbreaking cries. But the heroes are not confused by this fact, nor the fact that bloody traces of palms were found on the bed. In a situation where the stupidest of the stupidest American teenagers would understand that you need to run away from here, Indonesian youth, contrary to common sense, begins to look for a girl, while calmly saying: “She must have gone up to the second (first) floor!”, “I think she’s hiding somewhere!”, and so on. At the same time, the heroes are constantly bothered by the main villain, a lame nurse, or rather, her ghost: then the scary face in the mirror cries, then the leg will grab. And then, in the finale of this stupid and drawn-out scene, we'll finally be exposed to the mystery of her curse. But... this, perhaps, and I will end the story, because surely there will be those who want to taste this exotic fruit.
I'll move on to impressions and conclusions. They boil down to this: of course, this movie is insanely cheap, stupid and not at all scary. In the U.S., if such films are made, they are shown only to farmers from Texas and fishermen from Michigan. But there is one “but”, the “but” that I mentioned in the prologue of the review. You can’t compare this movie to others! After all, we are not talking about the cinema of the United States and not even about the cinema of Japan, Korea and Thailand, which for many years have been the flagships of Asian horror. We are talking about the cinema of a third world country, or, to say a little less categorically, a developing country. Many things are forgiven developing countries: bloody civil wars, huge external debts. What can we say about their cinematic art? Of course, it is in its infancy, but the timid attempts of home-grown luminaries to exploit the original local folklore cause tenderness. In a good way. I found my own advantages in this film. It is not often that we watch the horrors in which the main events take place in an abandoned hospital in the middle of the jungle. This is exotic, and it is by its exotic nature that the film is valuable. Of course, he limps on both legs, like the nurse, but still want to believe that the Indonesian cinema in the near future will find a worthy boner.
5 out of 10