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When Gabrielle (Jill Gladys) takes over control of an asylum, she finds
a girl, Stella (Indri Satiya) locked away in a room, where she is
constantly mistreated by the nursing personnel. No records at all can be
found on Stella, though, and nobody will talk about her to Gabrielle -
so Gabrielle takes Stella under her wing and the more she talks to her,
the more she becomes convinced that Stella is actually a normal girl.
Gabrielle decides to have her go to high school, and her ex-boyfriend
Panji (Ringgo Agus Rahman) agrees to accept her into his school. In
school, Stella is met with the usual reservations of her female
classmates, she is bullied, sexually harrassed by a teacher, and so on and
so forth, yet she gets a date for her prom, handsome Lando, and
theoretically, everything should be great - but only at prom night,
Gabrielle finds out that Stella is actually possessed by a demon, and she
races to the prom's venue to avoid the worst - alas too late, because the
constant bullying by the others have already released Stella's demonic
powers, and she has killed many of those present, including Lando and
Panji (even though they both cared for her), and now she even goes after
Gabrielle, claiming she is also the ghost of the kid Gabrielle and Panji
procreated but Gabrielle aborted many years ago. But in an anticlimactic
finale Gabrielle stabs her, and upon this Stella dies and disappears ... This
film starts out as an interesting tale about a mistreated outcast and
actually holds much promise in the first half - but then the writers
apparently ran flat out of ideas and decided to just retell the plot of Carrie,
without adding anything to that film's basic story. What's worse is that
in the second part, Stella as a character seems to actually lose much of the
appeal that she was provided with in the first half, she just becomes your
typical high school girl with a few otherworldly powers when she could
have been a complex personality. An at best routine directorial job does
not help the film much either, and the actual demise of Stella is a major
letdown. Sure, there have been way worse horror flicks made in Indonesia
(or anywhere else in the world), but that's no reason to watch this one.
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