A quintet of college students (Uli Auliani, Jonathan Frizzy, Deriell
Jaqueline, Herichan, Rizky Mocil) are assigned to work at an old folks'
home by nurse Saskia (Bella Esperance) - who keeps them all in line via
her hypnotic powers. However, one of the students Cil (Uli Auliani) once
escapes her hypnotic stare rather by accident, and now starts to notice
there are some things strange around here ... but at frist nobody believes
her. Eventually, two others (Herichan, Rizky Mocil) find a corpse in nurse
Saskia's room and realize it's high time to leave the place ... but are
caught and killed by Pocong (ghosts tied into their shrouds), and after
this, the two old people they took care of are in remarkably better shape
while all the students have been hypnotized to forget all about their
friends - all but Cil, who has managed once more to evade nurse Saskia's stare. Cil
investigates and finds out that the people she and her friends take care
of are actually their own long thought-dead grandparents, who are actually
Pocong who obviously try to avenge themselves with the help of nurse
Saskia on their descendants who
tucked them away in old folks' homes to die by sucking the lifeforce out
of their children.
However, when nurse Saskia moves in to kill Cil and Ridho (Jonathan
Frizzy), Cil's boyfriend she has managed to convince, their grandparents get in
her way to save them - and with the help of their grandparents, Cil and
Ridho eventually manage to kill nurse Saskia and escape, but as soon as
they are out of the old folks' home it literally turns into an old
graveyard ... Interesting piece of horror cinema that features
an original (if not entirley unpredictable) storyline and favours subtle
scares over blunt shockscenes. And while Herichan and Rizky Mocil might
be a tad annoying as comic reliefs, the rest of the cast is pretty solid,
and the direction, while not exactly inventive, is at least atmospheric
enough to carry the movie's mystery aspects. In all, one of the best
horror flicks to come out of Indonesia of late.
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