Modus Anomali, 2012 - ★★
REVIEWED
'Modus Anomali' is an horror movie based in real time. It revolves around a man waking up in a woods suffering amnesia, while roaming around the area he finds little trinkets and notices helping him fill in his blank memories. Turns out he'd been on a family holiday in the area and is now in a race against time to save his two boys.
Pointless, ball-less Indonesian horror/thriller, that lacks its own identity. It feels like a substandard rip-off of several US horror movies. Oddly the thing it reminded me most of was the 360 game Alan Wake, only without the cool twilight zone tv stuff, mixed with that Coldplay video that was made in reverse. Filmmaker Joko Anwar who managed to score a bit of a cult hit in the west with his earlier movie Pintu Terlarang, no doubt got a cash up front distribution deal to make anything he pleased (and thats what he delivered, something to easily please English speaking viewers). Western horror fans don't want this, we want flying heads and demonic snake princesses, like Indonesia used to give us. Ohh and this letterboxd poster is far better than the grubby dvd cover image.
Originally taken from Letterboxd
REVIEWED
"Go back to the beginning"
Scratched into a corpses skin
Pointless, ball-less Indonesian horror/thriller, that lacks its own identity. It feels like a substandard rip-off of several US horror movies. Oddly the thing it reminded me most of was the 360 game Alan Wake, only without the cool twilight zone tv stuff, mixed with that Coldplay video that was made in reverse. Filmmaker Joko Anwar who managed to score a bit of a cult hit in the west with his earlier movie Pintu Terlarang, no doubt got a cash up front distribution deal to make anything he pleased (and thats what he delivered, something to easily please English speaking viewers). Western horror fans don't want this, we want flying heads and demonic snake princesses, like Indonesia used to give us. Ohh and this letterboxd poster is far better than the grubby dvd cover image.
Originally taken from Letterboxd
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