Directed by:
David Poernomo
Starring by:
Sandy Aulia, Denny Sumargo, Igor Saykoji, Tasya Kamila
I know this movie before it's
released on the cinema. Why? Because I’m about to writes about ghost at
the mall. One that I know is Mall Klender, the place was on fire in 1998 cause by a riot and many victims get killed inside. When the internet said this film is about to launched, I can’t wait to watch because I need
resume for my story.
7 years old Mila had prophecy
that her supernatural sight will be reveals in age 23, like what her
grandfather had. That prophecy makes Mila very curious about supernatural
things. She and her friends becomes ghost hunter, come to many place that being
haunted by demons but find nothing until they accept the challenge that come
from newspaper to prove there’s no ghost in some mall. What made it interesting is Mila is about 23
when they enter the mall.
The story was mixed by romantic
relationship between Panji (Denny Sumargo) and Mila (Sandy Aulia) and the scary
event when they’ve been locked up for 24 hours inside the mall. I like the
bicycle scene, it’s when she joins Danang to ride a bike and circling the mall
with it and in some dark alley they’re separated. When the bicycle come to itself from the end
of the alley, I thought it’s very cool effect…at last, Indonesian horror movie
can make something like that…also when the foot print shown beside the
vehicle, and Mila’s necklace hung in the air, and Mila thrown from the height
and fall to the box that save her…it’s a fantastic series of scary things. I
also like the idea about jalangkung doll inside the dolls box and grabs by grips of the box, when Pandji
try to get some of it in order to give Mila a present.
But the fantastic series become suck at the scene when Pandji got thrown by a baby stroller that chasing
them. How could he also fall over to a box that hold him from smashing the
floor like what happened to Mila? Once is cool, but twice? I merely said that
it’s lack of fantasy from the script writer…
It also said that there’s a lot
of anger come from the supernatural creature that buried under mall’s
foundation but awkward when Mila and her friends only take less skeleton from
the storage at the basement, and it turns out that only one grave was prepared
to bury the corpse that they found there. How come it only one corpse that they
took while Mila was told that there’s many?
And once again, the top of the
scene when Mila and her friends are being chased by a lot of monster before the
morning come was cool for final scene but the make-up of the monsters bothered
me for the umpteenth time, as always when I saw Indonesian horror movie, the
makeup was awful.
But I admitted that the film had
a good story, though the storyline got very slow, because it surprised me at
the end when found out that Mila’s friends, Danang and Karina are ghost. They
were killed by their best friend and lost their thrust in friendship until they
meet Mila. Their relationship heals their pain and they accompany her anywhere
when she becomes ghost hunter with Pandji. And Pandji, who warned by Danang and
Karina not to tell Mila about them was nice because he continues to stands beside her no matter terrifies the situation goes.
The fact that Danang and Karina
is ghost actually could predict because I’m questioning about their part.
There’s no conversation between them and Pandji. And when Pandji got possessed
by demon, they do nothing to help Mila except watch, as if they were beyond all
the events. And it’s true…they are outsiders for reality world.
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