I cannot vent enough, how much I felt like leaving this movie in the cinema.
I do support archaic and traditional flairs to Indonesian horror movies - in fact, I'm quite a proponent to it. But this movie in specific, created mostly only one thing out of the wide-spectrum of background it has: nothingness.
This movie is just over-elongated build up of nothing. There's barely any sense of a climax to the movie, and I cannot stress enough how inconsistent it is with everything: Tone, Plot, Characters, Scriptwriting, you name it. Anything to do with the plot is in fact, garbage. Convictions and motives are usually just thrown out of the window to be replaced with even more baffling decisions.
There's also just, so much redundancy in this movie. Shots that have no effect to the overall experience and plot are everywhere- I don't get the point of watching three different torture scenarios when they end up practically the same; And with nothing to move the movie forward. Yeah I know that's a pretty taboo and old critique for a movie- there isn't an inherent need to move the movie forward with everything, pretty sure Tarantino is a great testament to that. This movie in particularly though made it awfully painful when you are fed with 7 different shots of a hunchback deciding whether he should enter a room or not.
At the very least, Performances, Editing, and Colouring, were tolerable. Sure they were still inconsistent, but the effort was made with some degree of competency.
That's about it I suppose. Got nothing much to say when this movie is exactly just that: Nothing.
