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Susuk Pocong
Indonesia 2009
produced by Ody Mulya Hidayat, Chandra Lie (executive), Fandy Lingga (executive), Teddy Sudiono (executive), Yoen K. (executive) for Maxima Pictures
directed by Findo Purwono, Saptadji
starring Andi Soraya, Dewi Perssik, Restu Sinaga, Debby Ayu, Angel Lelga (as Angeliq), Deswita Maharani, Yadi Sembako, Andre Taulany, Melina Zafar, Yana Zein
written by Abbe Ac, music by Joseph S.Ojafar
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Nako has fallen in love with Asti, so he plans to break up with his
current girlfriend, Dona - but before he has even talked to her, he
witnesses her falling out of a window and violently crashing onto a car
right next to him. He rushes her to a hospital, but the doctors can do
nothing to save her. The whole traumatic experience of course makes him
unfit to have a relationship with Asti right now ... Julie has long been secretly
in love with Nako, and now that Dona is gone, she sees her chance - but
leaving nothing to chance, she hires some graverobbers to get her a thread
from Dona's shroud to be used in a spell to make her irresistible to Nako
- and the spell actually works. Thing is, the graverobbers Julie has hired
have forgotten to properly bury Dona again, so she returns to the land of
the living as a pocong (= a hopping corpse tied into its shroud) and
scares everyone shitless - which is also why the Julie's spell works on
Nako only for a limited time, and once he meets Asti once more, he falls
in love with her all over again. This in turn makes Julie go after Asti in
a violent manner, but in their final showdown, Dona's pocong interferes
and throws Julie out of a window to her death - just like, as it now turns
out, Julie has killed Dona at the beginning of the film. Once her death is
avenged, Dona's pocong returns to her grave. Mixing
psychothriller- and pocong-motives to create a shocker might sound
interesting in writing, but as a film, Susuk Pocong is little more
than another pointless exercise in Indonesian horror filmmaking without
much scares or surprises or suspense or anything, and featuring way too
much (bad) comedy to work as a serious piece of horror cinema (and too
little to work as a horror comedy). True, there are way worse (Indonesian)
horror films out there, but that's not a good enough reason to watch this
one.
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