Reporter Monique (Donita) and her cameraman Akbar are sent on a
dead-end assignement to do a story on a pocong (~ shroud ghost) haunting
an unpscale suburban neighbourhood - but at first, they encounter nothing
but snooty wives in sexy dresses cheating on their husbands to pass the
time without the first idea of what's going on. And when the pocong
strikes (which means little more than scaring someone shitless), Monique
and Akbar are usually not around. The whole matter is not made any easier
by two gravediggers who have decided to have some fun and dress up as
pocongs to strike some fear into the neighbourhood. Only eventually,
Monique and Akbar, accompanied by the neighbourhood's security guard,
manage to attract the attention of the pocong (the real one) - which is
not a good idea because now they find themselves on the run ... until they
stumble upon an old man who tells them the story of the neighbourhood: It
was built on the ruins of a shanty town burned down by the security guard
and the woman who actually owns the land, and the fire killed many
homeless in the process, who were never even properly buried, the upscale
housing complex was actually just built on top of their corpses, and the pocong is
their collective ghost having come back for revenge - and now it kills the
security guard, then disappears, while Monique sees to it that the proper authorities take care of the case as a whole and arrest the woman
responsible, one of the top cheating wives of the neighbourhood, by the
way. In a way, this is Desperate Housewives done
as a ghost story, which sounds kind of promising - but unfortunately, the
whole thing isn't too well done, it's simply too episodic to really move its story
along and its little stories about all those women cheating on
their husbands actually get in the way of the horror plot, as does the
supposed-to-be-funny subplot about the two gravediggers. On top of
that, the pocong itself is pretty ineffective, it doesn't do anything more than
scare people shitless time and again, but that's pretty much it. Well, at
least the women are all sexy and wear really short dresses, but if that's
about the best you can say about a movie, that isn't exactly a seal of
quality, now is it?
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