Terowongan Casablanca (2007)

Terowongan Casablanca (2007)
Director: Nanang Istiabudi
Writer: Faldhin Martha
Indonesian horror hit where a bunch of friends find themselves hunted by an evil spirit that lives in the Casablanca tunnel.
'Low grade Indonesian supernatural horror aimed at teens. It kicks off showing us the local legend of a (floating woman in white) who haunts an underground road tunnel. Cut to present and at a party we are introduced to Tari who's under pressure to have sex with older hunk Reva or be dropped. She obliges only to end up months later pregnant, Reva not being the kind of guy to get attached to one girl does a runner. Later when found in a club Tari confronts him and tells him about his pending fatherhood, he gets her drunk and along with four friends takes her to an old woodland shack to have her child aborted. Things go wrong and Reva ends up killing her. Only her spirit doesn't rest and she alongside her unborn baby and the tunnel ghost haunt the people who've wronged her. The films mildly entertaining in a so corny its fun way, the plots been done to death and clearly a thinly veiled safe sex message to the youth market, another big let down are the fx and lighting being more suited to stage than to screen. In its credit the scenes filmed in cold blues that show both ghosts and the baby on screen together are done well. Just so hard to recommend it though when there's so many better supernatural movies come out of Asian countrys'
(4 out of 10)

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