Fantastic Fest Review: The Draft!

Indonesian metahorror takes a loving stab at tropes

Ever get the feeling you’ve seen this story before? If you’ve ever seen an Indonesian horror movie – not the ones generally lined up for international distribution, but the straight-to-video schlock – thenIf anything, it all seems so familiar, like the conventions of the Western slasher just translated. Director Yusron Fuadi sets up the simple convention of a bunch of twentysomethings driving to a remote, semi-abandoned villa.

It’s all so perfectly predictable, especially when Ani starts seeing ghosts, and that’s all before they find the creepy Dutch graveyard, the creepy abandoned well, and the extra-creepy Uncle Dadang who guards the house and keeps politely telling them to not go into the creepy locked room.

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