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Takut: Faces of Feat
Indonesia 2008
produced by San Fu Maltha, Brian Yuzna, Ananda Siregar (executive) for Komodo Films
directed by Rako Prijanto (segment Show Unit), Riri Riza (segment Incarnation of Naya), Ray Nayoan (segment Peeper), Robby Ertanto (segment The List), Raditya Sidharta (segment The Rescue), the Mo Brothers (= Kimo Stamboel, Timothy Tjahjanto) (segment Dara)
starring Lukman Sardi, Marcella Zalianty, Dinna Olivia, Fauzi Baadila, Shanty, Eva Celia Latjuba, Mike Muliadro
review by Mike Haberfelner
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- Show Unit: By accident, Bayu (Lukman Sardi) kills the young
daughter of his fiancee Dinna (Marcella Zalianty), and to hush up this
little mishap, he has to kill Andre, the father of the girl and
Dinna's ex, as well. Someone though has seen everything, stolen the
girl's body, and now he's blackmailing Bayu - but once Bayu has paid
up, he learns the dead girl is still in the house, and he fails to
return home before Dinna finds the body ...
- Incarnation of Naya: For the sake of her mother, Naya (Dinna
Olivia) agrees to take part in one of her religious rituals, but
actually she's busier seducing her little brother she hasn't seen for
five years - not knowing that all of that is part of a ritual to get a
demon to possess her ...
- Peeper: A voyeur is caught peeping on a dancer, but instead
of chasing him away, the woman invites him in, even suggests to have
sex - ony to then rip him apart, because she's actually a demon
feeding on voyeurs.
- The List: Sarah (Shanty) has hired a black magician to
torture and kill her ex Andre (Fauzi Baadila), and only too late he
learns that he has hired the same black magician to kill her. And the
black magician? He just does everything that's written down on his
list of tortures, one after the other, without the least bit of compassion ...
- The Rescue: The world has been overrun by zombies, but an
army unit does everything to save a boy and a girl from the living
dead, even if it costs the life of many a soldier. Still, in the end
the rescue is a success - too bad then that the girl has already been
infected with the zombie virus.
- Dara: Pretty restaurant owner Dara invites an admirer to her
home almost every night, only to then slaughter him and use his meat
in the restaurant the very next day. Then though her schedule gets
somehow mixed up, and she suddenly has to take care of three men at
the same time, something she almost doesn't survive. But in the end
she's only stuck with more meat than she had planned on.
In all, this anthology film shows the amazing potential that Indonesian
horror cinema at least theoretically has, a potential that is only rarely
realized in the horror mainstream coming from that country. That said
though, the stories vary significantly in quality: While the first and
last story (Show Unit and Dara) are undoubtedly macabre
highlights within the film, The Rescue is little more than a tired
recounting of zombie clichés, and the other stories fall somewhere
in-betwen. Still, as a whole, this one's pretty watchable.
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review © by Mike Haberfelner
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