Comments on: Oh, it’s Maxima’s culpa, all right.

By: Braineater

Braineater — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 16:24:54 +0000

Mark, a lot of these movies are available to watch on YouTube… many of them (including this one) with English subs. Just do a search on keywords such as “pocong”, or “kuntilanak”, and you’ll get more viewing material than you know what to do with. The video quality leaves something to be desired, but it’s a good start at getting used to modern Indonesian horror. If fuzzy video in multiple slowly-loading parts is too annoying for you, the actual movies themselves are surprisingly easy to find, through either legitimate or slightly-less-than-legitimate means; either way, they’re not terribly expensive. Google is your friend.

About the police: I guess I got put off by the fact that Leo and Maya run into the standard “police checkpoint that gets called off just in time” gag. I still find it hard to believe that nobody, not even their friends, seemed to know Leo and Ranti were dating.

By: mark

mark — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 11:36:35 +0000

Very interesting review – is there a website on foreign horror films you’d recommend or do you pick these flicks more or less randomly?

As for the clueless police and the “no one seems to know they were dating” bits, unfortunately, I think this is closer to real life than it should be and not just a case of a convenient horror-movie universe – I’ve lived in Thailand for a couple of years and the police was horribly corrupt and incompetent and I’d guess that Indonesia’s police force is probably just as bad, if not worse.

By: Braineater

Braineater — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 12:12:00 +0000

Yeah. You know the movie is bad when a guy can come home reeking of cadaverine and putrescine and still stink less than the comic relief.

By: lyzard

lyzard — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 07:14:05 +0000

I find something horridly fascinating in the thought of a film whose redeeming feature is necrophilial sex…