The Babadook: A Clash of Monster Within And Monster Around

TBH, The Babadook was the film i was dying to see after i found out that it's been universally acclaimed horror films. I didn't even see the trailer clip, i didn't read its synopis i was just giving my trust to those oranged stars appeared, i believe this film is good and i want to see it! YKW, i had just done watching the film, here's the review:

Films Wrap Up

Seperti biasa, masa lalu adalah salah satu bentuk dasar yang membentuk bagaimana kita nanti, atau sekarang. Traumatik, sulit untuk moving on dan terus terbayang-bayangi adalah titik dasar dari film ini. Yap, satu jiwa yang terus diselimuti oleh masa lalu yang tidak mengenakan membuat jiwa terasa mudah goyah dan berada dalam situasi sulit. "I need to sleep!", Amelia, seorang ibu yang harus berhadapan dengan masa lalu yang terus membayanginya tatkala ia harus ditinggal mati sang suami akibat kecelakaan tepat disaat ia hendak melahirkan anak nya, Samuel. Parahnya, justru semua kejadian menyakitkan itu tak bisa dengan mudah ditinggalkan sebagaimana Samuel yang selamat dilahirkan menjadi momok yang terus membawanya ke kejadian dimana ketika ia lahir dia pun kehilangan suaminya.

The Babadook adalah film horror yang menyuguhkan cerita dan tampilan visual yang saling menyulam satu sama lain. Bukan sekedar horror yang menakut-nakuti yang memusatkan Hantu (Monster as it appeard in the film) sebagai tema ceritanya melainkan menjadikan Monster sebagai simbol horror yang memberi efek takut dengan tema pusat cerita adalah karakter pemainya yang mana disini ditampilkan bahwa terkadang manusia sendiripun mampu menumbuhkan jiwa monster dalam dirinya.

Thanks to direcor Jennifer Kent yang telah mampu menghasilkan satu sajian film horror yang mana penonton diajak untuk memadu padankan emosi dan teror ketakutan. Kombinasi antara thriller psikologi dan supernatural yang tidak kehilangan kehorroran nya namun juga disisipkan rasa moral nya. Yes! The Babadook, cerita yang biasa namun terkesan berbeda. I'm satisfied, and the time i spent waiting to finally see this film is well worth it.

90% fresh! Thank you and Ba-ba-ba! Dook-dook-dook!

Housebound: A Seriously Head Kicker Film

When you watch a seriously thrilling film but you can't get enough thrilled instead of laughing on how obvious thrilling moments turn into some kind of ridiculiousity thats gonna shake your whole mind. Thats it! thats exactly what this film could poissibly described, a seriously funny one.

Wait, what's the film actually anyway is? haha, this is 'Housebound', a New Zealand comedy horror film released earlier this year. A directorial debut feature film by Gerard Johnstone and as well as writing it.  The film stars Morgana O'Rilley as a house arrested woman who finds supernatural experience in her mother's suspectedly haunted house.

As always, a film that i found on a movie hunting via briliantly generated machine named google had attracted me the most in almost no aspect of what internet might gives detail about it, except for the rates as it holds a 95% approval in rotten tomatoes gave me enough reason to have a will to give it a worth screening try. And one fact that the film is notably a horror with comedish flavor in it was a little bit 'wait up' for Housebound to get it soon storaged, but yeah lucky me and lucky Housebound it all meet together in a perfect daylight horror terror that doesn't take me down but in fact laughing me out quite loud.

Film's Wrap Up

Visually, Housebound is a pure horror film with actions and sequences that's gonna quite thrill you, set in a New Zaeland country side in an old house that really has a taste of being terrified. And the scoring as well, i find myself joy of watching the film is also because how the sound fx doesn't bother the authenticity of what horror films traditionally deliver, something that sounds cold, dark, mysterious but glorious.

Deepening the characters' portrayal may lead this film is successfully rewarded as comedy horror film. Yes, its human behaviours who always becomes the centers in a film that audience can easily interpret of whats emotion they feel along the film's running down. So as Housebound, characters plays key role in making it so successful about giving the audience the other taste that some may covering the part that they actually should be thrilled instead of being made laughing. Mrs. Mirriam Bucknell is surely the one that nailed it, she actually ruins some seriously thrilling actions and melt it down, I'm laughing quite hard seeing her along way down the film.

One last thing that complete this film is the plot itself, it has such a well done story writing, not just about easy to predict crap stories but a films that full of comedy but has story in it, and its quite complex. Before entering pre climax, i still have to guess of where the story may lead. But the more it goes on, the more the truth is revealed, no plot holes, everything is well executed. In the middle of the story, i find this film is a little bit combination of Shia LaBeouf's Disturbia and The Pact. But overall, what makes it so original is what conclude all the stories in the end, its beautifully terrified! and funny in between.

Last, personally i really like this film! so much!. Housebound is a film that whether you want to watch it seriously or too serious you will find yourself laughing and terrifying. It is really entertaining and scary in any ways you want. Really last, a little bit spoiling about the film's story, esp about some blood stream scene and its ending. If you're no stranger to Mario Maurer's ridiculous Sarane Siblor, be aware! you will find the famous same exact bloodbursting jokes!

Thats all, thank you! go watch the film because i'm rating its 90% worth to watch. I'm dismissed and see yaa :D

Cinema In September 2014

Before october ends, I am gonna update my monthly post, cinema recap. As most of previous month there was one film I saw in 21 Cineplex, by the way talking about number of films i watch in cinema it is not actually a regular schedule that I will watch film in cinema once in a month, but it could be more or even none at all because importantly it all depend on first what's the playing film and secondly most essentially what's the wallet going on haha. Oh hey return to the topic, the film I watched last month was Lucy.

Lucy, a total science fiction film, or its not fiction at all i don't know starring Scar Jo a.k.a Scarlett Johanssen and Morgan Freeman. This film centers on a story of a young woman portrayed by Johanssen who as the ability of maximizing her brain's skill capcity after accidentaly caught by some kind of drug mafia portrayed by a koreanese Choi Min-Sik and radiated by sort of drug which is planted into her belly.

Firstly this film is as expected as how i was expecting it would be to have Scarlett there in the film, she is denfining herself as one of today's finest female action figure, then anything goes crazier beyond what me can handle. I don't know is it because my brain who cannot reach anything possible to what 100% brain capacity would be like or is it really that 'eghh' seeing what happen in the end of the film. But shortly, this film still has something to enjoy and learn from aside from its beyond unimaginable fiction flavor.

The Babadook, Previewing In Endless Desperate Waits

 

October nearly ends, but my curiosity not yet end as I get myself more and more freakingly dying to hope ASAFP to watch this sounds strange in name film, titled 'The Babadook'. An Australian horror film which is so far a mind blowing movie especially for its goers. And for me, as I anticipate it still is in the way to be mind-blown. At least thats supported by tons of ++ reviews and rates. Kalau ditanya, film apa yang paling dinanti nantikan dalam waktu dekat ini, jelas jawbannya 'the uprising of district 13 lead by katniss 'girl on fire' everdeen' The Hunger Games Mockingjay Part 1. Dan bersanding di sebelahnya adalah film yang satu ini.

Awal mulanya mengetahui film The Babadook ini adalah ketika sedang baca-baca online di blog seorang film reviewer rorypnm kemudian menemukan review film yang satu ini, seperti biasanya langsung di googling cek rating online dan hasilnya wow!ghoosebump.. Metacritic yang bisa dibilang sangat pelit dalam hal memberikan rating waktu itu memberikan 100 dari 100 poin untuk film ini. Jelas saja film ini membuat sangat penasaran dan tidak sabar. Namun itu dia, kesbaran sangat dituntut karena setelah browsing sana-sini termasuk di laman raksasa torrent kickass pun film ini masi ada di request list. Sebenarnya kalo dilihat dari release histroy, film ini rilis di Australia sana di awal tahun 2014, plus di singapura dan termasuk di Indonesia rilis sekitar bulan september. Namun sayang, di Indonesia pun film ini hanya tayang di jaringan bioskop Blitz sajah, menyebalkan! tau gitu aku ngincig ke bandung da. Dan untuk pemutaran di US dijadwalkan bulan Oktober ini, tapi masih belum jelas juga.

Ngobrolin cerita tentang film ini sebenernya agak males juga, soalnya jujur hal yang paling dibenci tentang sebuah film yang belum di tonton adalah 'spoilers', begitupun yang namanya teaser/trailer itu masuk dalam kategori perusak dan sebangsanya. Jadi, yang jelas film ini wajib ditonton! Tapi sekedar sinopsis, merujuk ke ringasan imdb, The Babadook tells:

A single mother, plagued by the violent death of her husband, battles with her son's fear of a monster lurking in the house, but soon discovers a sinister presence all around her.

Last, i hope this film will soon show up in 'jagad pertorentan or per idwsan'. So for everyone of you who might has access to this film or you know something to do with it please, i'm begging you to hit me up and tell me! Thats all, for the closing below is the trailer of the film (which i haven't watched it yet):

TBT #1: Sit In Program

Hello octobahh, hello everyone i'm wishing everybody a very good day :)

Digging up my old post archive, i remember that i had ever posted about the topic of TBT, and i said that i would be tbting in everyweek here in my blogspot, but poor me due to such an idiot reason, i couldn't have accomplished that until today. Hey, today? its not even Thrusday or tuesday, but whatever I just want to do a throwback thrusday on friday hehe.

For the first tagged post about TBT, i'd like to bring back my reminiscence two years ago, its exactly two years ago in early october 2012, i had such an extraordinary journey when i was being given a chance to go abroad for a campus' student exchange program. That program escorted me to visit Negeri Jiran Malaysia for a week along with other students which represented their branch campus throughout Indonesia.

The program was actually supposed to be a campus stay for few days, but for that time the head campus decided to set it like a study tour, so when we were there we visited numbers of top universities in Malaysia and of course we went to few of tourist attraction, i consider it as a bonus. Traveling along the country, visiting popular places, tasting local cuisine and meeting new friends, that was great, such a precious experience that i'll never know when will i get that kind of chance in the future.

Summary of the trip, i got to see lots of things that i never seen before (of course it was my first time visitng abroad, and malaysia). We went first to visit universities there, they were UPM (Univeristi Putra Malaysia) the campus streched out in a 10.000 square meters area outside KL downtown. wow!, then we went to UNITEN (Universiti Tenaga Nasional) its a private univeristy majoring in engineering, next we visited Berjaya College of Hospitality that its campus located in the 13th floor of Berjaya Times Square, Two other univerisites are UKM (Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia) and UNISEL (Universiti Industri Selangor).

Besides doing a campus visit, the other fantastic thing we did is of course country tour, visiting main attraction and taking lots of pictures haha. Unarranged list, we went to these places:

• KLCC
• Putrajaya
• Merdeka Square
• Mesjid Negara
• Batu Caves
• Johor
• Genting Highlands
• Chinatown
• Istana Negara
• Singapore City Tour

From a total of a week, we had such a tight itineries. In a day we could spend hours and hours visiting places. Its quite tiring, but its so really fun. A lots of happines that i could get, experiences and lesson from our neighbor country which is i could said that they had one step ahead in some points. And one last point, FYI from all of those journeys, it produced more than a 20Gb photos and videos, insane!

Annabelle: Origin Story of Warren's Darling Doll

Parade October horror-thriller film dimulai dengan Annabelle reissuing. Filmny rilis lebih awal dibanding di US sana dan sampai Tasik pun tepat waktu. Sebenernya semenjak tau kalau Annabelle rilis awal oktober sudah direncanakan bahwa kalo udah tayang harus nonton dan akhirnya kesampean.

Film yang merupakan spin off dari box office hits tahun lalu The Conjuring ini memang cukup ditunggu tunggu. Jika menilik penampakannya di The Conjuring, jelas tokoh boneka setan ini sudah mencuri perhatian dan Warner Bross pun tak tunggu lama untuk segera mengangkatnya ke layar lebar sebagai sebuah spin off terbukti dengan proses produksi yang memakan waktu tak lebih dari satu tahun.

James Wan yang sebelumnya mendirect The Conjuring kini dalam Annabelle bertindak sebagai Producer dan bangku sutradara diisi oleh John R. Leonetti. Film berdurasi 98 menit ini dibintangi Annabelle Wallis dan Ward Horton sebagai sepasang suami istri yang mengalami berbagai teror gaib berbau satanic yang melibatkan Annabelle sebagai tokoh sentral sebagai mediumnya.

Film's Wrap Up

Secara umum tema cerita tidak terlalu berbeda dengan The Conjuring, yakni seputar kasus spiritual yang melibatkan sesosok mahluk jahat, setan. Dan mungkin bisa disinggung pada beberapa aspek dengan film Insidious. Dari sisi kehorroran, tidak diragukan lagi. Shock effect nya baik itu visual maupun audio sangat sukses membuat gaduh seisi studio, menyuguhkan sisi tradisionalitas sebuah film horror, yakni membuat penonton menahan nafas beberapa saat untuk kemudia boom! sound effect mengambil alih dengan sambarannya. Dari segi penceritaan, beberapa mungkin sedikit mengecewakan. Terutama pada bagian awal dan ending film. Sebenarnya, saya berharap ada penjelasan lebih mengenai sekte pemuja setan (apalah lupa lagi namanya) yang sebenarnya merupakan akar dari semua cerita horror Annabelle. Dan untuk masalah ending entah kenapa terasa sangat datar dan antiklimaks. Mungkin saya yang memang dalam sebuah film selalu bermasalah dengan endingnya, tapi rasanya apa yang terjadi diakhir terlihat terlalu didramatisir dan dipaksakan.

Overall personally, Annabelle sebagai sebuah spin off film memang tidak lebih bagus dari pada The Conjuring. Tapi sebagai sebuah film horror, it gives what horror film conventionally deliver. A terror to your soul. Its 70% worth to watch.

Kenapa Aku Dianaktirikan?

Lately, i've been thinking that my blog is a little bit dull. Its so infertile in publishing new post in every month. And for me, as the one who manages it and the one who takes care of it be honest that for uncertain reason, i'm having trouble in keeping it posted and updated. Ideas are there to be widely displayed in my mind about what's the next post that interest me in sharing it, but yeah it is all about what i have to have first, intention is good as starter but if i never get to it, write it and do it its all nothing! Kemalasan, one bloody obstacle that i'm trying hard to deal with.

I feel really bad for this one, this blog has been one of my virtual homepage that i had made it back alive since few years backward. This blog is so personal and general at the same time. Despite its so quiet here, visitor traffic is nearly dead, any activities is so stricted but Im still favorited this place. These are some reasons that hold me on making this more alive:

1. I have no energy, I'm so limited in sharing things, and I'm so undeniebly moody.
2. I am a worst writer in narrating something in a good, flexible and open way. Directly writing about something right to the point is not my way.
3. I didn't make a friendship here, have no relation and i rarely tell everyone, other bloggers to come and visit.
4. I'm a severe perfectionst and dang picky, when i start writing materials to be published, then i can't stop reviewing it before its even published and once i think its so boring, i stop writing and it got wasted.
5. Difficulity of expressing ideas and what i have in minds.
6. I intend this blog to be public, but i'm still imprisoned in my privacy which limits the outputs.

If compared to what I have been doing lately with other stuff like, tumblr. surely this blog is being clearly and unfairly disfavored. Though they two are different sort of blog but still they were used to be my two faves. But still, both have been places i send out my writings but what makes it distinct is that if tumblr. is purposedly to be the place where literally poetic ones for, in blogging its more like a news post. Its like telling someone "Hey, lets talk about this, i like this because bla bla bla" while there its about telling something but equally hiding it such as: when i think i have crush for someone then i will say "i got stuck my mind on someone".