HORROR HOUSE

Directed by : Nayato Fio Nuala

Starring by: Betrand Antolin, Masayu Anastasia, Stuart Collin, Tatiana Sivek, Kimberly Rider

My Dream Picture

 The first thing I’d seen when I watched this movie was who write it, and turned out that Erry Sofid was the one. And I said to myself, Horror House would be a good one because I knew him and had seen several of his work on TransTV programs. Perhaps I didn’t know him closely but we had something in comment because we like horror so dearly and he once writes at the same book title Sell Your Soul, the anthology book that brought my name as writer. I often heard his fans gave a nickname for him….Prince of Darkness…if I’m not mistaken. When I heard that name I thought he was some kind of super hero or something like that that fight criminals in the middle of the night…hahaha…

It started with Samara, a girl who lived in small apartment in the center-town, who often experienced strange things. I thought the changes face of hers becoming skull or screaming ghost on the mirror was cool. But sorry, Mr. Sofid, I already knew Samara is a ghost just in five initial scenes. I don’t know if it because I’m too often seeing horror movie or what…but the way Samara neglected by her waitress-friend or customer on the café was the same moves as Malcolm Crowe had experienced at Sixth Sense. Perhaps, if you’re not describe it to obvious on the elevator scene, when Samara get down with two girls who by suddenly smell something rot near them, I didn’t had something to convinces my guesses even more.

The terrors were not terrorizing Samara but Nadine as well, the girl who planned to be married with Terry. She believes Terry was perfect man to be her husband. That’s why she set the wedding preparation very properly in order to make that day as a moment to remember for the rest of their live.  Again, when Terry brought Nadine to dine at the café…I got hunched that café was the place where Samara works. In the middle of the movie my hunched was right…the café was just not the place where Samara had work but also where she meet Terry because he’s some kind of regular customer there.

A new resident by name Yuda came to that apartment. The photographer had just lost his girlfriend who committing suicide so he’s on a deep grief at that time, and he’s the one who could see Samara. They become friends because she keeps asking help to him, such medicine to cure her bruises…something that definitely funny because girl usually a good medical storage…but that’s probably a key to make them close. And it’s very typical expression looks by the apartment owner when he saw Yuda and Samara talked to each other…it probably something I will made as well if I wrote this story…

It bothers me a bit to find that Samara gets disturb by rot smell that came from her apartment. Maybe it’s trick from the writer to skipped viewer’s attention that Samara was ghost, because it doesn’t make any sense ghost would sense something like that…besides she’s the one who told Yuda that she smell something rot from the shed inside her apartment.

Yuda that being visited by Nadine, who wanted to hire him as photograph on her wedding day, helped to check it out, together with Nadine. Nadine finally found out a photo frames which shown Samara and Terry together, on the other hand Yuda was shocked to see the real Samara lying dead in the fridge. The ghost of Samara who didn’t realize what had happened in her world can’t believe her eyes and get hysterical but she vanished right away.

The apparition was shown very often in this movie, I can’t remember anymore where there lies, but it’s quite like what Erry Sofid did…sit a little and you will haunted till you scream…I can’t catch impression to make me remember what scene is the most powerful beside the rapid shocking, which bores me the later. The story’s simple and cool…the picture also cool…but I don’t know…to be honest I expected more than any of these…nevertheless yeah, it’s a fine movie if you want to watch Indonesian horror movie…it’s a good one compare to Bidadari Pulau Hantu or Taman Mayestik