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Imah (Jian Batari) and Sarpah (Baim) couldn't be happier: They have
just been married, moved to a house in the country, and he has found work
at the local plantations. But plantation owner Danapati (Tio Pakusodewo)
soon loses his head over Imah, and thus he has Sarpah sent away to a
faraway plantation to have him killed there quietly (it doesn't work),
then invites Imah, rapes her and makes her his captive. She manages to
escape though, but Danapati's thugs catch up with her, then they
gangrape her and ... In the following weeks, several of Danapati's men are
found dead, and gruesomely mutilated, too, and it seems to be the work of
Sundel Bolong, the ghost of a local legend ... Sarpah returns from his
work assignment to find Imah weirdly changed, but she won't tell him what
has happened to her. Eventually, the changes in her become so confusing to
him that he calls upon an exorcist, a woman who's killed when
investigating Imah's condition. Imah runs away, but Sarpah goes after her,
and he only catches up with her at the spot where she was gangraped, and
now she reveals that she was killed directly afterwards and has now come
back from the dead to have her revenge. Soon, ghost Imah shows up at
Danapati's place to scare him shitless, but she doesn't kill him but
leaves that to his own plantation workers who have since risen against
their cruel boss ... This film is directed with an eye for
atmosphere, and it uses its rural settings to the fullest, creepiest
effect - too bad then that the whole thing is rather badly written: while
the movie's main plot is simplistic, it's also overly convoluted and
complicated, to a point where most subplots don't help in moving the story
along, lead to nowhere or are just forgotten at some point or another.
Plus, the story is also filled with a few too many clichés to remain
interesting. In all, the film shows promise on a directorial level, but
that's about it ...
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