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This might be my Cruella time to shine and commenting on western's C-rated movie. I was casually looking for a new high-rated movies in 2025 and especially for a horror-thriller genre, but turns out this movie is a kind of cheapskates with a poorly executed movie that I've ever seen in the entire horror trailer genre for western league. I think Helloween should see the original Halloween that you all originated from, and particularly for the clown, you played it like a Bill Skarsgård wannabe. Outside the cringe trio of the mother and two daughters in this film, the clown should've learned more to get into his character and to build the organic character which could only been done outside of your comfort zone. For the plot itself, all the conversations that thrown everywhere in all places with no plots? Those are the most boring and cringiest scenes I've ever witnessed among horror genres in 2025. Comparing this movie to the previously and profoundly presented the Weapon (2025) and Bring Her Back (2025), so long and so forth, this movie is a bad bad list to wrapped-up 2025 horror geeks. It's such a downgrade of horror lists as if we're dragged back into 1990s or twin 2000s B-rated films that is poorly written, poorly directed, and poor character development. I think it's fine to say don't waste your time being curious about what this movie could bring, because it's just going to give you the most cringiest feeling you've ever felt in the bright afternoon during lunchtime. That's all.

And that was the longest, irresponsible, and unregrettable title I've ever written.

This film (might have) firstly intended to capture a rich, famous, old rich family drama -which is nothing else than mental issues caused by physical insecurities and perfect-oriented behavior.

BUT, in capital and bold, BUT..this film was captured in the cringiest, ugliest, most awkward form you'll ever imagined, rather than it's general focus on the "psychological drama / mystery / horror (religious touch)" or whatever the hell the team was trying to capture.

It was so fabricated in the way you (film geeks) can easily know where this particular idea was coming from, where you've seen this scenes before, in what film have you watched this conversation before, so on and so forth.

One more cringiest thing I wanna write about this film is..despite of their family background and whatever the hell their attitude came for my nerve, this film took place in Indonesia and capturing Indonesian "rich" family issues (who married a cinderella from a village with her problematic mother)..and that kid (daughter) barely used Indonesian language in a rather unusual setting and unnecessary conversation with the whole film throughout.

For me, this looks as if they initially tried to recycle the "Hidayah" kind of film that took place in 2025 era, with a more highly rich and (wannabe) respected family setting, added by a 180º degree different touch of religion and belief. No offense

Other than the ideas and reality I'd have to watch in a longest 1h 50m crappy film like this, the emotionless characters, weak-willed husband (father) living with 3 alpha girls, a yapping and too controlling grandmother (mother in law), and unrequited MUA who suddenly become the fortune-teller of the film's ending? This film is just wasting your time if you're watching it intentionally. Even if I watched it with a 1.5x speed on Netflix, this gave no values, meaning, nor brand new feelings towards the characters or both the story itself.

Try again, never.

Uh huh, "Haunted Apartment: Miss K" - more like "Haunted My Brain with Regret." Seriously, this movie is a train wreck from start to finish. The character development? Non-existent. Everyone felt like a cardboard cutout, and I couldn't care less about their fates. The synopsis promised some spooky thrills, but what I got was a confusing mess of bad decisions and even worse execution. The production and direction looked like they were done by someone's nephew with a camcorder - cheap, sloppy, and just plain ugly.

And don't even get me started on that "plot twist." It wasn't a twist; it was a slap in the face with a crafted mask made in the middle of nowhere with non-historical myth to be curious about. Completely nonsensical and ruined any shred of coherence the story *might* have had. As for the casting, yikes. It felt like they just pulled names out of a hat. No chemistry, no believable performances, just a collection of people trying to act scared and failing miserably. Save yourself the headache and skip this one. Seriously, it's not even "so bad it's good," it's just bad.

This series is not that good for someone impatient like me. The main actress was looking old and moron 😭 she could've said soooo many things yet she DIDN'T. She could've been visionary in plenty scenes but she chose just NOT TO. She and her inferiority complex is too much to handle in the whole series especially on the Ep.12 - thanks to the roommate for being logical and straightforward though, she saved the plot mostly.

She could've stopped someone from hurting her feelings and yet she just acted the way she prettily always does, and chose not to take any action to protect at least herself. Got the most pain at the end. Moron.

She decided not to reciprocate anyone's feelings towards her because she was SCARED of everybody's sayings and didn't want to be addressed for rumors, and yet she hurt her own heart (and her crush heart) for being denial. Moron

This series is a total mess for allowing so many itchy doings without second thought nor common sense in social settings. I wouldn't recommend this one if you're looking for the type of rom-com Korean Drama even if just casually randomly killing times. I feel bad for the majestic Cha Eun Woo for this review but bro, your girls around here were straight up born stupid. Thank God you met Ju-kyung in another parallel life.

I've been observing few K-drama from cutesy genres until the blockbuster ones, this particular one though, was (and still is) the one that executed in the most brilliant ways possible. It brings back the value of "series" itself since the very beginning. Most of dramas today are lacking of engagement throughout the plot envisioning, thus many viewers preferred watching it in 2x speed or even passed some of the Eps to finish it in one-sit. But you definitely can't do that with the Masked Girl. The more you skipped it, the more nonsense you'll connect its ending and taking the moral of the series' introductory.

What brings me to write a long passages here, after tons of movies & series marathon without rating them, was due to this one movie released on Ntflx in Indonesia namely "Bangsal Isolasi" that seemingly took a lot of nerve from the original screen-view and plotting the Ep.5 and 6 of Masked Girl. They took quite "a note" to those scenes and making it the so-called adaptation to their own nonsense endings. Don't forget to add the pretty actresses and legendary names of Indo actors, plus the newbie influencers to anticipate the markets buy-in of their "different" offering for movies genres.

What differs the Masked Girl to any other series today, is not only different in their valuable choice of making the whole episodes to create a thorough story, completed with every POV's screen view, it also shows you the brave determination by bringing the emerging issues and ugly condition of 'the system' which represents many other regions' threats and challenges in their governance.

Also, the thoughtful details of the main (women💖✨) character in the Masked Girl, oh-so-chef-kisses a lot from me to you, teams! I even researched about their heights and little background check on "Kim Mo-mi" roles played by Lee Han-byeol, Nana, and Go Hyun-jung. They're all the best fit for this character definitely, their facial features, heights, postures, and everything just met the very details of requirements to play as Mo-mi. Huge applause and mad respect to the Writer, Director, and all the respectable team contributed.

I decided to give this entertaining, dark comedy, and heart wrenching series a 10/10 for its originality, details, straightforwardness, moral values, and cinematography of overall execution. Gave me goosebumps every time, and I became a huge fan and social-media-follower of Nana ever since the episode played by this queen. Thank you!

Pulling off the best they could that no one could ever done for 3 years of complicated countermeasures and many other obstacles throughout, BTS had finally came to ease their fans' emptiness after those months of patience within uncertainties. This is BTS's first offline concert since the 'LOVE YOURSELF: SPEAK YOURSELF THE FINAL' in Seoul in 2019. Throughout the concert, BTS not only delivered performances that were pleasing to both the eyes and ears, but also to the audience.

BTS is rightfully deserved the amount of appreciation on this one for had successfully attracted as much as 813,000 spectators, including: 214,000 people watched the 4 nights of live performances at SoFi Stadium, 18,000 people watched the 'Live Play in LA' event at the YouTube Theater near the SoFi yard; 581,000 people bought tickets to stream online on the last night of the concert. In total, BTS' concert 'PTD ON STAGE LA' is estimated to earn 33.3 million USD, excluding sales of goods and online stream tickets.

The sold-out tickets for all 4 shows at SoFi, is the highest number of tickets sold in the history of this stadium. It is the highest-grossing show at a single venue in the last 10 years globally (the last time someone did this was when Roger Waters kicked off nine shows in 2012 in Buenos Aires, Argentina).

P.s. I will never interested to any start of argument if you're doubted about the quality of performance because let's just be real and watch the whole performance on Disney h+. It's BTS you're all about to questioned. They were facing 50,000 audience per day, the first time again to experience a close-interaction with the ARMYs after 3 years, it's probably the most exhausting and challenging festival they'd ever faced, but they nailed the all-7-members setlist (songs) with their dedicated performances and musical intelligence, solely to give equal experience towards all the fans attended there, and all the members to see their fans eye to eyes once more.

So, for any of you virialized others to hate these talented guys by leaving 1-star on the ratings, good luck with your own idols/fave artists because if any ways you thought to unrecognize BTS standard in music industry, it will in return, only got you less than unrecognized pathetic ones in the end.. Swallow reality and accept that it's always been BTS who paved the way✌🏻

Pulling off the best they could that no one could ever done for 2 years of complicated countermeasures and many other obstacles throughout, BTS had finally came to ease their fans' emptiness after those months of patience within uncertainties.

BTS is rightfully deserved the amount of appreciation on this particular kick-off stage for had successfully attracted as much as 1.02 million viewers from 191 countries/regions, within the three-day in-person concert that was attended by a total of 45,000 people. Due to this fact, tell me which Korean act could even generate those amount of numbers during the period of transition of COVID-19 regulations in the beginning of 2022, in their own country, South Korea? I believe none.

And I will never interested to start any unreasonable argument if you're doubted about the quality of performance because let's just be real and watch the whole performance here. It's BTS you're all about to questioned. They were facing 15,000 audience per day, with no shouts or any close-interaction due to the strict regulations back then in SK, it's probably the most exhausting and empty hall they'd ever faced, but they still brought us to a whole greater universe with their dedicated performances and musical intelligence.

So, for any of you virialized others to hate these talented guys by leaving 1-star on the ratings, good luck with your own idols/fave artists because any ways you tried to unrecognize the BTS standardization in music industry, will in turn, only got you below the border of nugus entertainer in the end too.. Just face reality that it's always been BTS who paved the way.

I honestly have prepared some positive reviews for this movie but then I witnessed a lot of trivia and other audience's review it was popularized by netflix users. Kinda agreed with most of the ranged 4 to 8 star reviews, but I refused to overhyped this movie to be worth up to 9 or 10 for its poorly executed plot and core thematic.

During the movie, as a horror fan (not too much into gory ones), the chills I felt was somehow escalating throughout the plot, but then I left doing other things in the middle of it and did not really interested to rewind the skipped part since (I believe) some plot and scenes were lack of originality as it mostly adopted (might be influenced?) by other thriller genres out there. Not bad anyway, this one's exceptionally good for horror production by Indonesian, but it has zero novelty to deliver or worth to remember indefinitely.

But thanks to other same-year horror films by Indonesian too, this one's stood out as one of my favorite and more-recommended sequel to spend the long weekend with my cousins. The adopted and adapted scenes were nicely done, the jump scares were unending (might have been much better if it has dynamics to keep the thrills up without continuously screening those bloods and jumps), and the actors could have been more logically contributive throughout the clueless stories (please fill the holes in the plot, not just sticking genuinely to its retarded situation). But overall, I will still recommend this one for a family gathering or quality time at homes, satnight movie's choice, anything, because you'll witness the 'brighter side' of horror production by Indonesian team and actors. Well done!

I picked this movie for the a long weekend's choice as it's said that the 3rd sequel will be released this year. I believe I've watched it few years ago but not sure it was memorable enough to make me intentionally re-watch it in 2022. The Doll (2016) is one of those cheesy creation by Indonesian that finally caught my full attention in the last 10 mins (at least) after the appearance of Sara Wijayanto, tbh. I decided to grasp the entire lame conversation and plot in the first 20 mins but still can't help dozing off because its raw execution of scenarios, irrational bridging, or even the poor roles. So, I jumped the cursor to the last 20 mins and finally, a fruitful stories to witness.

I usually don't count the stars I gave to rate a film but as a proud Indonesian, I felt obliged to address my reviews for a better execution of horror movies in the future, especially in collaboration with the best production house and movie stars like this one.

1st star = for the actors choice and location 2nd star = for the adopted and adapted scenes from conjuring series. Yes it was smooth anyways, but I love horror genres and conjuring universe is one of a hail series deserved to re-watch, thus I recognized "that" parts you used and re-created 3rd star = for the special effects and logical impact during the thrilling scenes only 4th star = for a light moral value by Mrs. Sara as usual. I love DMS, might this be a biased comment but her narratives were virtuous for us who still alive.

I previously planned to watch the 2nd sequel, The Doll 2, but seeing the first one was kinda like this, I might re-think first.

So, i found this film on Fox Movies and its title was "Death by Friendship". Thinking it was good to watch another thrilling film with an obvious title, which may give some twisted ending i wouldn't had expected. But when i searched it here, its title was "Friend who kill" and "A daughter's ordeal". Ok. But it didn't change the fact that the plot wasn't even there and just another usual psychotic friend movie, added by the slow-witted detective + father and a helpless mother. Don't even hope for a built character, this film served nothing but a disappointment.

I watched this in the same year the film released, 2018, and re-watched it on 2019 with colleagues, inspired me to rate it 7/10. Idk what was my impression on both two moments back then, but today, on 2021 I accidentaly watched it again on fox mov, from the moment his sister was dead until the rest of the horror happenings in this house (i didn't watch it from the beginning today), I realized nobody has ever done it like Hereditary. No film or series. No one. Just none. Its originality, its horrifying truth, the character building, its graphics and vulgarity throughout the scenes, just left me nothing but nightmare tonight.

Might be other side effects after watched the Midsommar, too, last year? Who knows

Bahkan sinetron indonesia sptnya ikut tertawa melihat ini 🤣

No plots, no impression to any problems/triggers arisen, nor even the moral values could be received😂

I could say.. I'm a big fan of Cheese in the Trap since its manhwa was posted in Line WebToon couple of years ago. I've read them day by day till I found out that it will be presented as a Drama in 2016. That'd be the very first drama I see, too, back then. (ps. I didn't get into Korean things before). After its arrival in 2016, turns out I appreciated the series more than I expected, though the story lines went farther than its comic at some points. Then I got news that this story is once again would be packaged for a movie in 2017. That became the next highest anticipation I felt after its series done.

What I'm about to say is, as a movie enthusiast and a big fan of this project, I'm a little bit disappoint with this version somehow. The story line's very good for at least representing its comic, but for some reasons, I found it strange that I referred to the drama version more than the movie. Maybe the first impression that was made from drama's characters brought the movie risen up to a whole new level expectation for us. Park Hae Jin represented Yoo Jung seonbae once again in a very best way (just like Yoo Jung character was built from himself). Oh Yeon Seo could be a fit character for Hong Seol physically, but not characteristically. I expected Hong Seol who was live with more confusion, shyness, vagueness and cleverness just like once acted by Kim Go Eun. And of course for Baek's sibling, they need to do at least portraying those recklessness, cunning, and unbeatable sides of them, just like once played by Seo Kang Joon & Lee Sung Kyung.

When I was reviewing about the main roles as above, I felt the more expectation level rose up to other roles as well. I might gave 5/10 stars for this movie for bringing the rests of the stories that was never brought up in its series. But over all, I couldn't thank you all enough for the characters here. I hope this would never happen again in the future of kdrama or kmovies world, for exploiting a masterpiece story into a profitable business. Thank you