Sumpah Pocong di Sekolah (2008)
I’ve criticized Indonesia’s Maxima Pictures for putting out horror flicks that are a bit noisy and immature. With what seems like stunning self-awareness, Maxima actually produced a movie that turns its worst habits into assets: it’s set in a boys’ boarding school, where noise and immaturity are only to be expected.
Then they did something that stunned me even more: they switched gears in the middle, and made it a halfway-decent horror film.
This third (and for now, last) of my reviews of Maxima’s output shows once again what they could do, if they’d only set their sights a little higher than junk like Tiren.
#1 by Nathan Shumate on August 26, 2009 - 9:30 pm
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So, do you speak Indonesian? (Or are you picking is up from the movies, in much the same way that Chris from A Gorilla’s Lament can now speak conversational Hindi thanks to his devotion to Bollywood flicks?)
#2 by Braineater on August 27, 2009 - 6:45 am
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No, not yet. A large number of new Indonesian horror films are made with an international market very much in mind, so they come with English subs (actually, the English subs are often worse than the movies; but at least they’re a start).
But I’m working my way up to the unsubtitled ones. Indonesian’s very close to Malay, which I’ve been trying to learn for a while now. I can’t speak it, but I’m getting much better at understanding.