Review : V/H/S 2

I am always excited about Indonesian movie maker that his or her film succeeds to go abroad. That makes me proud of and keeps  my hope intact about the future of Indonesian film. The Raid, Don't Talk Love, Lovely Man are good examples of this. Since I watched The Raid, I will always anticipate the next movie that has international scope but includes Indonesian's works. You can call it nationalism haha.

So, V/H/S 2 is  one of my anticipated movie. Yes, the only reason why I wanna see this movie is just want to see 'Safe Haven' segment on it. Safe Haven is the works of collaborated Timo Tjahjanto and Gareth Evans. Timo is a unique and antimainstrem Indonesian director. His good debut is 'Dara' that gives its main lead actrees, Shareffa Danish, won an award from Korean FilmFestival (I'm sorry if I'm mistaken). Timo usually works with his brother,Kimo, but in V/H/S 2 he worked alone. Gareth Evans,well, not an Indonesian director, but we Indonesian movie lovers thanks him so much because his amazing work, The Raid. The Raid is an Indonesian movie even it was directed by British director. Yeah, I feel right about Gareth Evans is British outside, but pure Indonesian inside. Okay, stop talking about this.

Now, back to V/H/S 2. V/H/S 2 is anthology horror movie. It has one main story, about 2 journalist (illegally) that seeks the clues about the lost boy as a request by the boy's mother. They try to explore a house that is suspected as place the kidnapped boy hidden. But there they found some monitors already turned on. The one decides to stay for playing the VHSs there, maybe she'll find some clues, and the other one exploring around the house. There are 4 VHSs that the girl plays. Here they are:

1. Bionic Eye 2/5

A man had an accident that hurted his left eye badly, so he needs to be surged. Then a bionic eye has been implanted on his left eye. Everything is good until he begins to see supernatural things..

This segment is good enough for making me horrifed. I was shocked in many times. But, it became annoying because the same tricks. It is scary but predictable. Also the story is so thin.But,thanks for the free boobs. (oh God).

2. Ride in The Park. 2/5

A guy rides his bike fastly on off road track. But then he finds a messy woman who cries for help. He tries to help, but some weird-looking people walking toward him..

Now,the zombie time. It doesn't give you horror, it just disgust you. And also it lost the frigthened athmosphere. How can you be frigthened when you are the zombies?..

3. Safe Haven 3/5

Okay, let's talk about my this 'reason' haha

Safe Haven is about a sect in Indonesia, but it is absolutely a fiction sect. Some journalists want to have interview with the leader of sect. They come to the house of sect and going around surveying everything. Everything is normal, until the leader begin to speak to his disciples through the loudspeaker..

It is undoubtedly the best segment among the four. It has good perfomance by Epy Kusnandar as the leader of sect. It has better plot than the other segments. Maybe my mind goes too far, but I think this sect refers to Christianity thought. But also I don't get the reason. What I like too, is the little twist at the closing scene.

4.Alien Abduction 2,5/5

This segment brings back the feeling like the first one. It is scary, but same trick. The Alien's appearance is scary enough, and the shocking sound works, and I wonder about the shaky camera. It really needs big effort to do that. Oh, and one more, the life of the youth here, really disgust me, draw more my attenton than the horror things.

Okay, don't forget about the main story. What can I say when I see the end of this movie? It is just about HORROR FUN., nothing to explain more.

V/H/S 2 : 5,5/10