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Horror Indonesian movies in these past years have become significantly better with its new releases. Although the quality of each movie varies from the generic jumpscare-filled movies to actual neatly-executed movies, the general improvement of the quality is quite impressive. But this movie, is something else.

Initially, the storyline had some sort of structure. But over time, the movie just progressed to the worse. All of the characters have no prominent personality which failed the audience, not even the main characters have that. They also have nearly no character development, so for the most part, the dialogues felt a bit forced. Even those who can actually act were not saved in this movie.

The story itself which was initially promising was all over the place. By the lack of the character developments and the lack of characters' chemistry towards each other, it just made the storyline didn't go as smooth as other movies. The detaiIs of the movie were also not given out nicely. It really did start off promising, but the execution was done poorly.

At least, the background of the movie was quite spot-on especially for those who were brought up from Javanese culture. But other than that, there was really nothing good about this movie.

To be honest, I don't remember the last time I watched a movie this bad. I don't even remember the last time I rated a movie 1/10 stars. But it really is that bad. Please don't waste your time watching this.

I have to say that this is quite impressive and entertaining, both visually and morally. The quality of the cinematography already fits to somewhat a standard I put as decent, although not quite exceptional. The background story surely hits close to home to many movie-goers as it took place in our home country; tragic and ironic, but relateable in so many ways. Since this is spoiler-free, I just personally find the story as a huge plus for me to rate it this high.

Sure, there are some points that are lacking, like some plot holes that aren't quite explained, weak characters build up, awkward placing of some of the background music, CGI that can be much more improved; but this is just the beginning of a long journey. There is so much room to improve, and I believe that it'll get better along with the next movies.

I have never been too much of a fan of local movies, but I'll surely be anticipating for more of these movies from Bumilangit Cinematic Universe. I must say that I'm proud that this might be a groundbreaking moment for Indonesian movie productions in general.