RUMAH DARA

Produce by: Mo Brothers
Starring by: Julie Estelle, VJ Daniel, Shareefa Daanish, Ario Bayu, Sigi Wimala,Arifin Putra

The first slasher movie in Indonesia…and I think the movie its hot indeed…makes your heart slash in every minute…I watch Julie when she starring horror movie from Kuntilanak, but I think her performance on this movie is more mature than before.
As for Shareefa Daanish, I think she deserve to be the best actress on puchon international fantastic film festival. I watch her movie first on 'Disini Ada Setan' with Andika Pratama and Nia Ramadani and she boosting her performance greatly.

Begun with six best friends on a café situation, Adjie visit his sister Ladya (Julie) who work on this café and told her that he would go to Australia for a job and want her to come to the airport for the last time. The act about Alam help Ladya from nasty guess are poor to me. Why he doing such a thing? Is it because he loves her? Or just showing how close their relationships are?

The appearance of Maya, the family ‘slasher’ member, also doesn’t make sense. Stood in the rain in front of their car, she told them that she’d been robbed and need a lift to her home. Maybe this is a lesson for us not to give a lift for a stranger, especially some pretty girl.

Maya’s mother, Dara, ask them to stay for a night, deserving a nice supper meal, I don’t know why Dara speak Holland to her kids, maybe to show us that she came from those period, but if she able to speak like that she should speak more on other situation, not just on the table. And the supper starts the thriller.

If you’re tired with ghost or ‘funny’ monster to pumps your heart, then Rumah Dara offering you something different. The thrill built by a people killing people, but just not a people. The members of Rumah Dara are nasty, cruel, and cold blooded. I’m shivering when Arman cut Adam’s throat by saw, or when Adam breaks Jimmy’s (VJ Daniel) neck, or when Astrid pulled the stick that stack to her neck by Dara. This movie consumes you with million ton of blood but it doesn’t make me sick to watch it.

Rumah Dara doesn’t want to give you a moment to think about why Dara’s family could be strong or how come they live longer than normal mortal just by eating human’s meat. For I know, from bible I’ve read, people will have long age only when they eating health food like vegetables and fruits not meat or fat.

But it’s fine because the point is they want to bombardize you with action, frustration, horror, and thriller. Something that I felt on the atmosphere, because audience keeps yelling something like “Come on…get up… grap the knife…” or “Run stupid…she will kill you…” The audiences want to see the protagonist kill antagonist as soon as possible. They are involved with the emotion that built on every scene.

Remind me about family relationship that hold until the last stand like House of Wax, Rumah Dara inspired me to honor my life. Respect every inch of my bodies. The reason Dara’s family slaughter people are to provide organs like heart, kidney, or lungs that precious for human. When we are disappointed about life and think to kill our self, there are other people on another place that desperate to have the organs, our organs maybe, just to stay alive with more spirit and will.

So, have you respect your life and body?
Or should you wait Dara come to sly you first?
It’s you who decide…