DreadOut

I was fortunate enough to get the opportunity to sit down to watch the 2019 Indonesian horror movie "DreadOut". And I must admit that I was looking forward to watching it, as the movie's cover/poster definitely looked interesting. Sure, I hadn't even heard about the movie prior to sitting down to watch it. But it being a horror movie was all I needed.

And well, the term horror is one that you should casually glance at here, because "DreadOut" wasn't a scary movie. Maybe if you are a teenager in Indonesia, then "DreadOut" is scary. But for a seasoned horror veteran such as myself, then this was a mere stroll in the park. In fact, "DreadOut" was a rather mundane and boring movie actually.

Why is that you might wonder? Well, first of all, the storyline was just laughably simplistic and downright stupid. In fact, there were so many things in the storyline - or whatever atrocious thing this was supposed to resemble a storyline. Most of the events in the movie just felt random and put into the movie at the whim of a whimsical director. It felt like writer and director Kimo Stamboel didn't really have a script to work from and just made things up as the filming progressed. The movie lacked a red thread and had little to no continuity.

Then there was the acting performances. Well, let's just say bless the actors and actresses for participating in this heap of a movie, and trying to make something work out of the rubbish they had to work with.

Visually, then this is where "DreadOut" worked. The visual effects and CGI in the movie were actually really great. I liked that quite a lot, but special effects can only do so much for a movie that has virtually no script or storyline. But I will say that if you do get the opportunity to watch "DreadOut", do it for the special effects.

My rating of the 2019 movie "DreadOut" settles on a mere three out of ten stars. This is by no means a horror movie that I will be returning to watch for a second time. And it is not even remotely close to being near the top of the shelf when it comes to horror movies made in Indonesia. I found out that there is a sequel to this 2019 movie, and I can't really say that I am in a particular rush to go out there and find a copy to watch.

I don't play the game even i have it years on steam so i write this review pure as regular viewer.

Ok was this movie good? personally i love all the scenes, the casts, the visual effect is top notch but somehow i don't feel any horror vibe of it, yes i heard some viewers scream and even some of them cover their faces on some scenes but then i realize that those viewers are came from the late generation or so-called "Kids Zaman Now" so my best guest is that this movie is targeting wider audience but not for hardcore type horror fans so i think it's understandable why this movie is take the safe path.

Do i recommend it?

Yes if you are not a hardcore type horror fans or if you just want to spend time with friends and enjoy horror movie with great scenes, seriously the visual effects is really good!.

No if you are already seen to much horror movies out there and i really don't recommend it if you are kind of people that know history and have a lot of references about Sunda and Java culture.

One more thing, i couldn't understand why this movie is rated 17+, in my opinion this movie should be rated 13+.

This movie is in the completely different class from other Kimo Stamboel's movie. The sound, cinematography, special effects, makeup and other filmographies are OK. However, the story, script, and plot are so so so terrible that it looks like they are made by junior highschool student for class project.

Good sound, awsome visual effect, popular teen fanbased casting and sadly bad cinematography. seriously Kimo, i think your sinematography doesnt suit with this genre or maybe you must play the game first before understand what the point of using flashlight as a weapon on this movie game based.

Incoherent. Failed logic. Plot holes. Annoying one note characters. Essentially it suffers from every sins of bad writing.