TAMAN LANGSAT MAYESTIK

K2K PRODUCTION

Directed by: KK. Dheraj

Sutradara :   Eka Katili

Starring by: Metta Permadi, Rahmat Panca, Ki Joko Bodo, Fauzi Imam

Sebagai catatan, sebenarnya saya enggan sekali menuliskan review tentang film ini ke blog saya karena berbagai alasan yang rasanya bisa bikin kuping merah, tapi setelah pertemuan saya dengan Evi Sri Rezeki dan Bang Aswi tentang penulisan blog, saya mendapat masukan untuk memasukkan setiap tulisan dari film-film horror yang saya tonton sebagaimana adanya….

So, untuk itu saya akan coba masukkan film ini ke dalam blog Freaknco dan karena tulisan ini saya buat untuk Evi, yang secara kebetulan juga kembarannya pernah minta saya menulis review tentang BELENGGU ke dalam bahasa Indonesia maka saya akan melakukan yang sama untuk film Taman Langsat Mayestik…

Ketertarikan buat menonton film ini bermula dari twitter, dimana tag film ini sempat jadi trending topic beberapa kali sehingga ingin juga menonton film ini. Lagipula tagline bahwa film ini didasarkan pada legenda Taman Langsat yang angker sungguh menggoda keingintahuan pecinta film seram…

Cerita dari film ini sebenarnya sederhana saja, ada produser dan sutradara sebuah PH yang ingin membuat film horror. Mereka mencari pemeran yang tepat dan karena Talent Coordinator, Genta, tidak bisa menemukan aktris yang pas kemudian keduanya marah-marah. Keduanya akhirnya mencari pemeran utamanya sendiri dan menemukan Shinta, sebenarnya bukan mereka yang menemukannya sendiri juga karena Shinta datang ke kantor mereka pada saat yang tepat. Meskipun bintang utama sudah ditemukan mereka tetap harus mencari artis-artis pendukung sehingga Genta mengusulkan membuat casting di tempat angker supaya talent yang diundang bisa merasakan atmosfir horror.

Genta kemudian mendapatkan referensi Taman Langsat sebagai tempat angkernya dan bersama Yoga melakukan survey. Selama survey, sang produser melakukan tindakan brutal yang nyaris memperkosa Shinta tapi kemudian justru menewaskan Shinta yang keguguran dan kehabisan darah. Genta dan Yoga bertemu dengan penjaga taman bernama Ki Langsat, dari pria inilah Genta mendapat informasi mengenai asal muasal kenapa ada hantu di taman tersebut.

Daniel dan Ozzie akhirnya datang ke Taman Langsat untuk melakukan proses casting dan menemukan semua Talent sudah hadir disitu sementara Genta dan Yoga tidak nampak batang hidungnya. Apakah mereka berhasil mencari artis pengganti Shinta dan juga artis-artis untuk peran yang lain. Saya menjaga spoiler sehingga saya menyarankan anda menonton film ini sendiri dan berikan penilaian menurut anda sendiri, namun sebelum itu ijinkan saya memberikan masukan atas film ini dimana :

Sangat tidak masuk akal bila tiba-tiba terjadi gangguan atau penampakan di kantor PH hanya karena Genta dan OB membicarakan soal Taman Langsat yang angker. Mungkin kita tahu membicarakan tempat angker akan membuat bulu kuduk merinding, tapi sampai terjadi terror secara fisk? C’mon…get real….

Shinta yang keguguran hanya karena didorong dari mobil dan begitu banyak darah keluar seolah Shinta sudah mengandung lebih dari tiga bulan. Man, don’t you know that janin itu punya kekuatan yang luar biasa dari benturan? Memang ada kemungkinan ketuban pecah tapi saya pernah melihat seorang wanita hamil yang tanpa sengaja terpeleset jatuh di tangga tapi janin di perutnya masih aman, so maafkan kalau saya tidak percaya dorongan dari mobil bisa mengakibatkan keguguran macam itu…dan mengenai suaminya yang cacat yang ikut bunuh diri di tengah hujan dengan menghujamkan batu ke mata gara-gara melihat istrinya meninggal…c’mon man…

Legendanya mengatakan yang dikubur di bawah pohon Langsat itu bayi-bayi korban aborsi dan arwah mereka berpindah ke burung-burung. Itu menurut saya sesuatu yang keren, tapi kenapa tahu-tahu hantu yang muncul di taman itu ada genderuwo, kuntilanak, bahkan pocong masuk disitu? Apakah sosok tuyul kurang seram sehingga harus ditambahkan ikon-ikon dari makluk semacam itu supaya makin menambah seram filmnya?

Yoga, Shinta, dan suami Shinta tewas di depan rumah Shinta, tapi kenapa tahu-tahu ketiganya bisa muncul di Taman Langsat dan bergabung dengan ‘talent-talent casting’ yang lain? Apa hanya karena mereka terlibat dalam proyek pembuatan film di Taman Langsat yang angker dan tahu-tahu arwah mereka bisa ditarik ke tempat itu? Saya tidak tahu menurut anda, tapi menurut saya hantu tidak bisa berpindah tempat dengan seenaknya, apalagi hantu penasaran…pun kalau teori saya itu salah maka saya akan mengajukan pertanyaan kedua, kenapa suami Shinta juga hadir ke Taman Langsat? Kan dia tidak terlibat apapun dalam proyek film itu...pria itu hanya kebetulan menjadi suami dari calon bintang utama film yang diproduksi Daniel….hanya suami yang tak tahu apa-apa…

Begitu geregetannya saya pada film ini sehingga setelah menontonnya saya memutuskan berkunjung ke taman tersebut. Taman itu memiliki luas 700m2 dan berada di belakang bekas pasar burung barito. Saya tidak tahu soal binatang yang dijual disitu tapi yang saya tahu ada soto kambing yang enak sehingga menyempatkan diri buat makan dulu disitu baru kemudian mencoba survey. Taman itu tidak terbuka untuk umum, gerbangnya digembok dan untuk masuk kesana menurut penjaganya harus dengan perjanjian lebih dahulu.

Apakah saya sebegitu saktinya hendak menantang penunggu-penunggu disitu?

Well, saya tidak kesana hanya buat melihat apa benar disitu ada penampakan genderuwo, pocong, atau kuntilanak di atas pohon beringin…yang memang ada di tengah-tengah taman itu…karena rasanya itu bukan sesuatu yang penting tapi itu merupakan bentuk pelampiasan frustrasi karena gagal merasakan keangkeran dari filmnya sehingga ingin melihat sendiri kemisteriusan taman itu secara langsung…

So, sekian dulu komentar saya tentang film ini karena saya masih harus melanjutkan tulisan tentang film lain yang lagi heboh seperti Annabelle…

HAUNT

Revolver picture Company

Directed by: Mac Carter

Starring by: Jackie Weaver, Brian Wimmer, Ione Skye, Harrison Gilbertson, Liana Liberato

I mixed up on the first sight when the beginning of the scene on this film showing me how Franklin Morello get connected with his dead family with some supernatural radio. But it turns out to be a house that’s been haunted like Amityville Horror, which I thought about a haunted radio like I’d seen on Possession with a Dybbuk box. 

The idea about supernatural radio is something fresh but the tense decrease on the next round. The abandon house finally got new owner, Asher family, who filled it after being left so many years. The Asher actually heard about creepy story about the house, which taken the lives of the member of the previous family, but it don’t matter for them and they decide to have it. That was the same story of mine when my family move in to some house in the small town, Cilacap, everyone knows that our house is haunted but my parents choose to ignore, not because they’re brave enough but because the house was given by my dad’s office as a house office.

Alan Asher and his wife Emily also move their children, the teenagers Evan, Sara, and Anita for coincidence to be the exact number of the previous dead family. And there’s something weird about the attics that become Evan’s room. The central character was Evan, the weird phenomenon begun when Evan meet Sam, a girl who’s been crying in the woods, and to be honest if that happened to me I surely will step away from a creature who’s crying alone in the middle of nowhere like that…

This mysterious girl hanging out a lot with Evan and she stayed in his room at one night after she’s got fight with his father. I didn’t know about people in US, but here in Indonesia I will hung my son if he suddenly introduce some strange girl who came up from his room in the morning in our house. And the family let Sam live as she pleased on their house until the girl brought some trouble thing to Evan, like pursuing him to play supernatural radio that was belong to Franklin Morello.

One thing I found weird is how Matt, the boy who owned the room before Evan, reacted. By his voice that comes from supernatural radio he sounds mad to Evan, I didn’t know why, is it because he’s taken Matt’s room? But at the end of the of the story, Matt turns out to be a victim of the thing that haunted the house…is it better if the writer make Matt sounds to be a little bit hysterical? Afraid maybe? And he contacts them to warn them about the assassin creature…

The fact is, it sounds like to ghost didn’t like the appearance of Evan there so it’s something about seizure of territory. Many unusual things happened on this film, things that illogical like I’d said about a boy who introduced some girl with unknown status to his family, a family that not concern about strange girl who lived with one of their member in the attic, and how they left Evan alone at the house with the girl like that, how come little baby Samantha who carried by Franklin could return to his drunken father?

Well, these movies indeed haunt me? Not with the fine haunted scene but with unanswered question above…and with so many characters, the whole family, I think its worthless if it turns out that only two characters, Evan and Sam, that were being haunted…so worthless…

QUITE ONES

Hammer Film Production

Directed by: John Pogue

Starring by: Jared Harris, Sam Clafin, Erin Richards, Rory Fleck-Byrne, Olivia Cooke

Didn’t expect much bang or ghost on this film because as I seen on its trailer it’s some kind of psychological horror, so there’s must be more act than appearance so that’s why I was surprised to see several of it at the end. During the hours I have busy to compares the film with the real fact, which had to be inspiration for this movie, that I’ve read on Phillip Experiment, it was some experiment of parapsychologists in Canada in 1970 who try to prove human mind could produce a ghost through imagination and visualization.

It began at Oxford in 1970 when Joseph Coupland was showed some cases on his parapsychology class. Joseph was the man who always tries to define supernatural thing with science, everything should have logic explanation and that’s why he hired Brian, local cameramen, to document his experiment with his two assistant, Krissi and Harry, to study and cured odd woman who’s possessed by demon names Jane Harper.

Joseph team were using modern and scientific methods like Electronic Magnetic Pulse (EMP) to tracks negative energy from ghost, sensor camera to photograph an aura from Jane to shown the figure of the thing that bothers her, they name it Evey and I found it very amazing in that period, also playing loud rock music in order to kept Jane from sleep so her agitation could increased the activity of that negative energy.

Science versus supernatural, that’s what I think about this film. Two elements that always interested when it’s collided, and Joseph, with his ideology and logic tried to explains every strange manner on Jane and persistence to his conclusion that Evey is only some creature that made inside the head of Jane. Brian upset because the experiments hurting Jane and its lack of ethic, it’s proves nothing than making their subject harming herself and the apparition of Evey get aggressive.

The cameramen who finally had doubt on Coupland theory finally looked up from some evidence on library and he found that the symbol that marked on Jane’s waist was a symbol of an occult sect called Lillitu, which worshiped Sumerian demon, and they killed a young girl a few years ago because they believe with doing so they could bring their god into the physical world. The young girl’s name was Evey Dwyer and with her abilities she killed all member of the sect by set them on fire inside a burning house.

It’s some example of a horror movie that used less visual effect, besides the apparition of a long tongue that come from Jane’s mouth, but the story it’s tense for me. The mixed between paranormal activity angle by Brian’s camera and a regular horror movie was fine. But the songs that played on that movie not represent the periods. Bertha Butt Boogie by Jimmy Castor Bunch was released in 1975 but it’s played on the movie which set up in 1974. And Cum On Feel the Noise by Slade indeed released in 1973 but appropriated in 1974. Perhaps Paranoid from Black Sabbath will do more.   

Another thing, if it’s true that Jane Harper was haunted by Evet Dwyer, or I’ve said Jane Harper is Evey Dwyer herself, why she said the ghost is a baby? A baby who’s trapped in fire, with some stuffed to convince the team that the appearance was baby creature, see also the shape under the blanket on the baby box while in reality Brian discovered that Evey Dwyer was trapped in fire when she was teen.  

Is she lies because she already knew that she’s Evey? Or it’s some mistake by misleading from the writer? Well, to found out about it I think you should check the movie on yourself…

DELIVER US FROM EVIL

Jerry Bruckheimer Film

Directed by: Scott Derrickson

Starring by: Eric Bana, Edgar Ramirez, Sean Harris, Olivia Munn

Not many horror film involving police duty, most of all become crime fighting stories or action genres but in Deliver Us From Evil, Sergeant Ralph Sarchie was dealing with a prime crime, the devil himself to be fought. I like the way Priest Mendoza said about crime fighting like murder, burglary, domestic violence, riots and so on that humans do were only secondary layer of crime in the world. There’s a prime crime that had to dealing with and that was spiritual fighting.

Sarchie and Butler facing a serial weird situation during their patrols, a marine name Jimmy who beating up his wife, a mother name Jane who throw her baby into lion’s cage sewer, and mysterious painter who almost killed Sarchie with a lion at the zoo. His radar, that was Butler said to him, lead Sarchie that the numbers of situation turns out to be unusual case from other cases their handles.

His investigation found out that a group of marines that send to Iraq change the three of them, Mick Santino, Jimmy Tratner, and Buttler into some doors for Evil to pass to earth. From that, he also meet Jesuit Priest name Mendoza who’s dealing with spiritual warfare and told him about his gift, that Sarchie’s radar was a special abilities to sense supernatural world and make him target for the demons.

The fact that this movie inspired by true story of NYPD Sergeant made me think that the creep was truly happening out there. I think you’ll be surprised like me when I see the scene on Santino’s place, where a cat corpse was crucified at the cross at the wall. My goodness, I don’t know if you can stand scenery like that, especially when you saw the inside parts of the carcass had been removed.

The story itself was not so horrified, it full with sudden appearance and big bang, more like action horror to me but every part was placed into exorcism at the end of the story. I don’t know the connection between The Doors and the graffiti cave on Iraq, I don’t know why evil targeting Sarchie just because he had supernatural ability, I don’t why the evil had to wait until other members of Santino came to New York to kill them but one thing that Mendoza said to Sarchie that evil just attacked in random, you can’t see or know his pattern…well, I think I just got to deal with that…and enjoy the exorcist battles that I just know had five steps to deal with.

And I do like every single scene, despite the confusing story, especially the exorcist battle that full with video effect. But there’s continuity mistaken by the director, when Sarchie taking down Jimmy Tratner, after the marine beating up his wife, Jimmy slashed him on the arms that made Sarchie suffered deep gash and he state that it needs stitches, it was not showing on the next scene when Sarchie and Butler goes to the zoo. The scar was there no more.

And I think there’s mismatch between Catholic Pastor and Jesuit Priest. Mendoza said he was Jesuit Priest but most of what he do, like sin confessing and cast out demons using Latin and holly water, showing that he was doing what Catholic Pastor do on their exorcism. Jesuit priest did not used Latin, they used daily language and not throwing holly water like that. But some words that taken by Mendoza about ‘defrocked’ if he behave similarly, when he confessed his sin after make sex with his first patient, it was the phrase that used by Christian priest.

OCULUS

Intrepid Pictures

Directed by: Mike Flanagan

Starring by: Karen Gillan, Brenton Thwaites, Katee Sackhoff, Rory, Cochrane

Oculus…the title is very catchy…and when I look on dictionary, I find the meaning that Oculus came from Latin word, the eye. One of the wisdom words I remembered is beware of your eyes, it glance with shine when your heart is clean but it glance with darkness when your heart is dirty… and I think the title was quite fit with the story about mirror…

It start with the tragedy that happened on Russell family about eleven years ago, when Allan Russell, the father, shoot Marie Russell, the mother, in madness and some strange phantom lady show herself in office room of the father. The tragedy put young Tim, the little son, to mental hospital and separation with his sister, Kaylie. But after eleven years, Kaylie still chase for the mirror. When she finally found it, she also picks Tim that by coincidence got his release from states, and asked the brother to settle things back by destroying the mirror.

I like the tense when Kaylie got the chance to see the mirror again after years, face to face with the mirror that’s try to defend itself by scaring her with weird condition. I don’t know what will happen or what she’ll get if the man who owns the gallery doesn’t come. Obviously not third sculpture because there are only two of them in reality.

The film pace is slow but I understand the reason, the writer tries to build strong story by explain all thing in details. And I think it works well. The tense increase every minute, not by shocking performance of the ghost or loud noise but by the story and all possible situations that would terrifies you when you try to reveal some mysterious thing that could endanger your life. I’m in love with the character of Kaylie, she’s a woman who put everything in detail, from investigation about the mirror and set up her plans to destroy the mirror.

Shamelessly, I though she talks too much about her plan, over confidence that ceiling jack ram will do her purpose without distraction, and it makes the mirror, as individual if it is, think so hard to counter the plan. I mean, in logical, what will you do if someone set up some plans to kill you and he make words of it?

Moreover her motivation was weak, if she want to destroy the mirror why she try to prove her theory by letting the mirror drawing energy from living thing, gain the negative influence and take risk of her own death. In logical, just set up the timer and let the jack ram smashed the mirror in the first place. She doesn’t have to prove anything because all proves has been seen when she was a child. Or, if she finds it necessary to prove her theory, I think the dead plant is enough to show Tim that he’s wrong and after that just let loose the jack ram without setting up the timer.

Despite that, I liked the story, it was original idea, came up with back and forth plot that describe present and past, in the middle of it the story mixing present and past in the same plot. Excellent! It’s not only creepy but also confusing the audience for the end of the story. This story not also scary but fill with psychic drama, something that wouldn’t always like by major audience, for example in Indonesia, but it would get positive credits. And I think it’s paid when Oculus grossed $4,940,000 on its opening day, nearly equaling its production budget of $5 million.

Also, from the movie I’ve got fresh understanding why Kaylie and Tim didn’t get hallucination when they were young, it’s because the child has a pure heart. They were 11 and 10, by that age you would not think about evilness in you but when we’re grown up all hatred, anger, madness, and evil thing grows and like I said on the first line here, beware of your oculus when you looked back at the mirror, probably you look at the devil itself…

MALL KLENDER / THE MALL

Hitmaker Studio

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.

The word that can’t be forgotten on this film is when Pandji said to Mila, “The supernatural creature finds their way…they will revealed themselves to people when they want it. But when they do, the people who had supernatural sight couldn’t realize that they were ghost because he/she can’t distinguish them from the living.” 

THE LAST EXORCISM 2

Arcade Pictures

Directed by: Ed Gass-Donnelly

Starring by: Ashley Bell, Julia Garner, Spencer Treat Clark, Tarra Rigs

I don’t know about you guys…but in my opinion this film was poor…

Yes, evil might win…who says it can’t? But in this film, boy…it make me think twice before choosing the good side because the bad guys get a big prize and left nothing for the deeds beside death. What about the words that saying, win some and lose some?

After what happened in the first movie, survivor Nell Margaret Sweetzer, the girl who’s being possessed tries to put her life back together. They put her in the safe house call Deveraux Transition House who gives her some medical and psychological treatment to help her started a new life. Nell finds a job as a house keeper, mingle with her roommates at Deveraux, and get crush on her coworker, Chris. In this film Nell’s character was develops so much, I’m not refusing evolving character or developing story from the first one, I think it’s cool that Nell succeed to transform herself as a good person when she threw away her consciousness about evil that haunted her, Abalam, but it really not that cool if it takes almost half of the film.

The scary scene was very text book like the radio that turns on or turns off by itself when she clean the room at work, and the majority trick to scares audience was cheap because it lies on soft music playing before a loud bang with loud noises. I don’t why the scriptwriter put walk at the park scene because there’s no relevant with any scene at the back. Maybe they want to show how Nell gets along with her friend but they also want to put some tense to start the horrified part, which turns out to be poor one because the scene was not scary enough, especially with some goofy statue that come in a sudden on her back and tell her that her condition was just temporary.

I’m little a bit confused about Nell’s father also. Is he dead or not? On his first appearance on Nell’s room, I though the guy was dead, I thought he was a ghost because he could come and disappeared as he pleased from her room but when Gwen killed him at Frank’s room I was lost, whether he’s a spirit or ordinary human that also survive from the horrified tragedy on the first movie?

And the cult ordo of Cecille that try to get rid of the demons inside Nell’s body? C’mon, do you believe that something like voodoos could throw the devils away? Well, I don’t ! That’s why it was normal when the three of them get slain inside the house by Nell that finally being possessed once again by Abalam, the spiritual creature that love her much and get jealous when she fall in love with Chris.

Despite the poor scenes at all over the plot, still there’s a good scene which I enjoy on this film. It was when Nell comes outside the house with a boot shoes that belong to her friends, get inside the car then drove it to the highway which also burns all building that being passes by her vehicle to fulfill the prophecy that said evil will burns everything at the end of the world, and again it left us no choice than pick her side or live with nothing…well some might say so…and the exorcism will not last after all… 

DARK SKIES

Blumhouse Production

Directed by: Scott Stewart

Starring by: Kerri Russel, Josh Hamilton, Dakota Goyo, Kaddan Rocket

Loosing up a work could be difficult for everyone, especially for a husband who had a family to feed up, and that’s what happened to Barret’s family. Believe me, I know what it feels. The husband, Daniel, had no work for the last three months and it put a lot of strain on his relationship with Lacy, his spouse. That’s why the elder son, Jesse, always tell the story about sandman to his little brother, Sammy, every night so they shouldn’t have to listen the fight of their parent.

It turns out that the sandman story becoming real when Lacy found out weird thing inside the house like food stern across the kitchen floor, the missing vegetable from the fridge, and missing photo from the frames. They set up the alarm to detect and one night its scream aloud to warn the Barret, but they found out that the system was broke down because the sensor on nine spot was trespassed at the same time, which impossible to do by natural cause.

The awkward get high when Lacy and Daniel stuck up in a lost time. Lacy loss almost six hours when she thinks that she was companied a couple of client to look at the house, and Daniel loss three hours when he got up at night and walked out of the house unconsciously. If Lacy had a brushes on her forehead, Daniel had a nose-bleed. Until Lacy caught a strange figure standing on Sammy’s bed and when she turn on the light the room is empty and her little son was out already in the front yard.

Gather all strange events that occurred Lacy searching on internet to find the answer, and it makes me pleased when alien become the cause. It’s not ghost or supernatural power but alien. This movie becomes refresher for me…a sci-fi horror and as you can predict, it make the rest minute more exciting when I watched it.

I won’t tell about the ending because it wouldn’t surprise you, but I knew the end of the story when I heard Jesse says to Sammy, when he told him about the sandman, that his little brother had not to be worry because the sandman will come to him first. Dark Skies has a marvelous scene, the scene that I liked most, at massive dead of a bird that flew to the house, but the funny thing is when wildlife official who invited by Barret to check the birds says that she will do some autopsy on them.

I think autopsy only performed on human, but for animal? I don’t know the term but I don’t think autopsy is the right word. Other thing I found as a missing logic is the battery on Lacy’s I-phone. If she said that she loss 6 hours of her time on that day, so it probably a half left or almost empty.

I love the implicit message in this film, no matter hard the situation for the family members when they’re facing trouble that comes from external cause they should stick each other…care each other… watch each other so they wouldn’t let anything happened to one another. And look how tough Daniel is when he’s doing everything to protect his wife and kids.