Director: Bram Ferino
Year: 2025
Country: Indonesia
Alternate Titles: N/A
Genre: Supernatural
Plot:
Desperate to help their views, a couple of content creators decide to visit a local house rumored to be haunted so they can help get some extra money by investigating a scary location, but when their lack of manners and robbers interrupt their experience, they learn the house might really be filled with spirits.
Review:
Overall, this was a pretty solid if problematic genre effort. Among the better factors with this one is the serviceable and overblown yet strangely intriguing setup in this kind of setting, where the idea of what’s on display gets worked out here. The central premise, involving the group of friends looking to make content for their followers by livestreaming their crazy pranks and interactions working well enough to get them noticed but not enough to where they feel they can make a living and moving on to staying at a local house said to be haunted by a demonic spirit, is a solid enough reasoning to get them introduced in short order and getting to the house itself. This allows not just the initial introduction to come off nicely, since their awkwardness at not knowing the rules about dealing with the spirit and being dismissive enough about it all to the point of being targeted by the ghostly figure is a great starting point, being cliché enough to work for what it is but not doing much else beyond that.
This is all worked out nicely enough, with the later scenes involving the group encountering the robbers and bringing more victims to the spirit, turning this into a decent series of encounters throughout. The first scenes show them meeting up, trading gags and jokes to try to scare the audience, setting up the kind of interactions that arise once they arrive at the house and anger the spirit. Knowing that the whole haunting is started due to their failure to adhere to specific rituals and good behavior that sparks everything is a solid enough turn that instigates the encounters where the spirit emerges out of nowhere and providing enough comedic-tinged freakouts to be somewhat memorable even if they never delve into the kind of overtly terrifying nature of what could’ve been due to the need for making sure there’s a comedic bent to the sequences based on who’s involved. This approach, combined with the generally tamer, kid-friendly tone that never really makes it feel like they’re in danger, is what keeps it down overall.
Overview: **.5/5
A likable enough indie genre effort, there are some rather enjoyable aspects to be had with this one that manage to hold off some of the issues present here that hold this one down. Those with an interest in this subject matter, who appreciate this kind of genre effort, or who are fans of the creative crew will have a lot to like, while most others might want to heed caution.
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