Synopsis
Horror has a mother.
Six friends are captured and tortured by a murderous family after giving a ride home to a desperate stranger.
2009 ‘Rumah Dara’ Directed by Timo Tjahjanto, Kimo Stamboel
Six friends are captured and tortured by a murderous family after giving a ride home to a desperate stranger.
Darah, 血肉盛宴, Дара, La Última Cena, 마카브르
Absolute schlock lunacy. Goes absurdly hard for no reason and thank god it does; my dream late-era Silent Hill movie adaptation (complimentary) in far more ways than expected, capturing the essence of what makes those maligned games so appealing to me in spite of their critical consensus. Here, similarly, Macabre marries that overbearing boondock gravitas with overwrought psychological externalizations, resulting in a near-outrageous descent into madness that just barely misses being comical and firmly lands in a deranged-ness instead. The horror is then less in the images we see than the very notion (and prospect) of phenomenon itself. Insane.
When you think you’re watching the Indonesian Addams Family but turns out to be the Jakarta Chainsaw Massacre.
Blood-red dreams filled with putrid moments
With child, no matter
Into the void and onwards to the beyond
History will decide the here and now
Breathe faster, the moment is coming
Be quick, the danger is now
Indonesian torture slasher Rumah Dara starts out like a typical Texas Chainsaw clone, with a group of kids larking around and driving in their minivan, and continues some of its themes throughout. Where it differs though is in the execution (mind the pun), as most scenes are shot in well lit rooms that allow every scratch, stab and break to be delivered in glorious Technicolor.
And then there's the sound design. I didn't cotton onto it at first, but there's this low drone…
Everything will be covered in blood.
,,Macabre‘‘ is another 2000s horror film with elements of torture porn, cannibalism and splatter. And thanks to ,,The Raid‘‘ films, Indonesian films like this have found resonance in the western world.
In the first 30 minutes, ,,Macabre’‘ reminded me a lot of director Eli Roth's films. In the further course, you can also feel the influence of the french extreme films like ,,Inside‘‘, ,,High Tension’‘ and ,,Martyrs‘‘ a lot. What is shown here is sometimes even as hard, brutal and merciless as these films.
All the evil family members were scary and great villains. Especially the mother. The disturbing and vile approach makes it a very entertaining experience for fans and some of the fantastic…
Well, hi there.
Let's travel to Indonesia. (nevermind that two characters actually want to leave the country.) It's beautiful and seems fun and hey, since we're in a good mood let's pick up this stranger too and give her a ride home. She seems nice!
- but this is of course a horror movie so that's not going to end well.
Alright! This was sleazy fun.
Gosh, lots of practical effects, the matriarch is 🔥. Absolutely obsessed with her deep voice. (which I learned is not her real voice. Aw.) The deaths are pretty good. So much blood. So much violence. So unhinged!
I have to say that this movie is rather mediocre but the fun is guaranteed and also…
Blood. Bleeding wounds, bloodied shirts, blood on walls, bloody birth, bloody limbs, beefsteak. Blood splattered, poured, sprayed everywhere, puddles of blood at every step, there's so much greasy blood on the floor it's like trying to walk on ice. The color red is featured prominently, clothes, lamps, wine, furniture... blood!
A group of friends almost run over a lost and frightened girl who, she says, was assaulted and robbed. Even though she's acting a tiny bit weird they decide to drive her home. Once there, a place deep in the woods far removed from society and, by the looks of it, the present time, they are introduced to the girl's mother who thanks them for their kindness and invites them…
Indonesian horror is dope and I love it when there is a hint of supernatural twist in a slasher set up.
Macabre is about a group of people travelling by car to the airport, when along the road, they meet a beautiful woman named Maya who says she has been robbed and needs a ride home, then she invites them for dinner and these people are drugged because there is a cannibal angle going on here.
Now the plot here is simple with relentless violence and gore, Shareefa Daanish as dara is a great antagonist with amazing dialogue delivery she is able to creep you out without doing anything over the top from the beginning itself, with a hint of a supernatural twist this movie is great specially for people who like movies such as inside (2007), there is a reason why I said inside you'll know its fucked up.
Six friends road trip is suddenly halted when they pick up a girl in the pouring rain and take her home. After meeting the girls mother and staying for dinner, they end up with a fight for their lives.
This Indonesian watch is actually a gory good time after about 20 minutes in with blood splatter here, blood splatter there, and by the end of the film blood splatter everywhere.
With the ascending tension around every corner and the fierce, hurling screams from the women gives the heart rate a run.
This film is not original, nor not without flaws and has a few dumb moments but at least it has it in it to thrill and startle.
7.9/10
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Six friends on a road trip almost run over stranger Maya when she stumbles out in front of their car, stopping to find out if she is ok the find out she has been robbed and agree to give her a lift home, then the carnage begins.........
The first half hour of the film builds up fairly slow, introducing us to the characters and their various relationships but when the horror starts its really intense, with plenty of gruesome kills and in the character of Dara we have a truly memorable horror villain. I also enjoyed the fact that i didn't really know any of the actors (apart from Julie Estelle who played the girl with the hammer in The Raid 2) so you really have no clue who, if anyone will survive the onslaught.
Adam, prepare the tools.
-Dara
The film was described to me as a gorier version of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, but I don't think that's exactly right. It's more of a Western horror trope done with Eastern horror sensibilities. Incredibly gory, hyperactive and intense Eastern horror sensibilities.
Unfortunately what it borrows from the West is done poorly, which is basically the set-up. How our six young adults end up in a house with a family of cannibals is weak, but how they end up staying there is idiotic. One moment they think their too rushed to give a poor girl that was just mugged a ride home, and the next moment they have time to stay for a "prepared feast"…
A timeless favorite!
This film is like a sweet journey that keeps getting better. Rumah Dara won my heart when I was 10, and it's still my go-to favorite. Hoping for more Indonesian films like this, even though I'm not sure anything could top the quality of this one.