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Macabre
Six friends are captured and tortured by a murderous family after giving a ride home to a desperate stranger.
Release : | 2009 |
Rating : | 6.4 |
Studio : | MediaCorp Raintree Pictures, Nation Pictures, Merah Production, |
Crew : | Director of Photography, Director, |
Cast : | Shareefa Daanish Julie Estelle Ario Bayu Arifin Putra Imelda Therinne |
Genre : | Horror Thriller |
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Wow! What a bizarre film! Unfortunately the few funny moments there were were quite overshadowed by it's completely weird and random vibe throughout.
This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.
This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.
There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.
Working in a family-owned restaurant, a pregnant woman trying to make ends meet on her own find her and her friends forced to entertain a bizarre feast with a stranger and her psychotic mother who plan to turn them into a cannibalistic feast and must find a way to get away alive.For the most part, this was quite the enjoyable effort. One of the more entertaining efforts to this one is the fact that there's a wholly engaging and stylish setup that offers a lot to really like. Mainly based around the sense of sympathy offered from the initial set of circumstances surrounding meeting her where the pregnancy ordeal and how she's treated by her family members makes for quite an endearing manner of getting us to sympathize in this situation. Adding that onto the way in which they get wrapped up in the family's escapades as well as the rather fine sense of calmness that overcomes her with the others, there's a really nice setup in the first half for the craziness to follow. That feature in the film, where it starts getting fun in the second half once the family starts in on their plans. Once it gets past the dinner party and the spiked food and drinks, the initial stages of them hunting the group down and striking at them has some really tense and chilling moments, especially once the creepiness comes in with their creepy smiling as they go about their slashing and cornering the group. With several stalking scenes throughout the house leading to barricading themselves in various rooms or encountering the demented butchering of the group by chainsaw, stabbing or slicing up the body with various knives and cooking utensils. That it turns the tables on the family in a nice turn of events, getting free of their bonds and getting the upper-hand for the time-being, enough to escape from the house and land outside where it focuses on some more fun with the escape turning into more of a survivalist stalking film coupled with the antics inside the house involving the birth of the baby in the midst of the chaos and their attempts at getting to those left alive as they begin stalking and killing everyone. With all sorts of gory mayhem unleashed here, these manage to hold the film up over it's few minor flaws. Among the few minor flaws to be featured here is the fact that this one severely loses steam in the last half. There's a decided lack of tension in what happens once the second group of investors arrives and brings about the new slaughter in that it feels like a complete rip on everything that's happened before which is far less exciting to see play out. Although that includes some rather fine moments of brutality with plenty of bloodshed, it all just feels like more of the same and causes the film to go on way longer than it really should, another fatal aspect of this one. Alongside some rather cheap and cheesy-looking effects, these here are what hold it back.Rated Unrated/R: Graphic Violence, Graphic Language and Attempted Rape.
"Macabre" is a very entertaining horror movie that had managed to sneak under my radar until now. And I really have been missing out on something great here.First of all, this is not your average Asian horror movie; so don't expect any ladies in white dresses with their hair covering their faces. It was really refreshing to see an Asian slasher horror movie of this caliber. Lots of blood here and a good amount of scenes that will make you squirm.Secondly, then this movie is really intense, and the Mo Brothers (Kimo Stamboel and Timo Tjahjanto) really stepped up and delivered a great movie here under their directorial skills. And it was a great breath of fresh air to the Asian horror genre.The story is about six friends on their way from Bandung to Jakarta when they stop to help a distressed young woman named Maya. Inviting them back to her home to show her gratitude, the six friends are introduced to Maya's mother Dara, and they are in for a night that will abruptly change and end their lives forever.The acting in "Macabre" was really good, and everyone were doing really great jobs. But one stood out more than the rest; Shareepa Daanish in the role of Dara. She was simply phenomenal."Macabre" is a well-worthy addition to any horror fan's movie collection. And it most definitely is worth watching because it is a very unique Asian horror movie. And with this movie, the Mo Brothers definitely put Indonesia on the horror movie map.
After seeing the movie "V/H/S/2" I loved the episode called "Safe Haven". Reading up about the two directors I happened to see these previous horror films called "Dara" and "Macabre". Apparently Dara is a short and I can't seem to get my hands on it at the moment. But I got to see the blue ray version of "Macabre" and man was I blown away! I may seem to over blow it but if you find yourself watching it and saying it's OK but not all that" just keep watching because the horror and the action just keep amping up up up until you think there can be no more and then there is still more! It's one of the goriest movies I have seen but it's done so well and used effectively to shock and disturb/scare you that it really works. Not just gore for gore sake and not like some of the zombie type genre that show so much it gets mundane or even comical. This stuff is intense!!! Best horror movie I have seen in years. It's not in English and you'll have to read the subtitles but it's well worth it for those who have a problem with that. The only thing that bothers me about it is I am spoiled and wan't more. Now I'll go through that phase where I have to watch 20 more junk horror flicks before I find another diamond like this. Hope not. Great movie. 9 out of 10 for me!
Have you seen a recent french movie called "Inside" (International title)? If you have and enjoyed it, you will also enjoy this one. A "fun" and very bloody movie, that definitely is not for the faint-hearted.But it takes it's time to get started. If you can "wait" for 20 minutes or so, the "ride" will start and you can lean back and enjoy. It's not overly plotted or has any real good acting in it, but then again, do you really need those things, in a movie like this? Of course it has quite some flaws, but again, if you let yourself go with the flow on this one, you can enjoy it. Just know what you watch, if you like those kinda things and you will have a good time.