Joko Anwar scored Indonesia’s highest-grossing horror hit ever with “Satan’s Slaves,” a remake-slash-prequel to Sisworo Gautama Putra’s beloved if campy 1980 original. Already another big success a…
” is likewise a rebooting tribute to past celluloid horrors, given the familiar feel to its tale of a prodigal-daughter heroine returning to a native village that’s cursed by black magic.
Tara Basro, who’s been in virtually all the director’s projects of the last five years, is back here as Maya, who’s first met as a toll-booth collector. Her cell-phone chat with garrulous BFF Dini is interrupted when a previously noticed “creepy car” returns to give Maya the willies. Worse, its driver appears to know who she is, and things go downhill really fast when he exits his vehicle with machete in hand.
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