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Watching at the beginning, I had a bad feeling about this movie. As I go along, my feeling was confirmed. The background of this movie is colonial Java, where people speak Javanese. Unfortunately, none of the actors speaks fluent Javanese but a very few supporting characters that seemed to be played by native Javanese speakers. Although this movie was supposedly spoken in Bahasa, but sprinkles of Javanese was poorly spoken throughout the movie. As a nativr Javanese, this is very annoying!

Special effect seemed too budget oriented. Many of the scenes using special effect failed to create a believable scene.

The only thing good about this movie is the adapted story. Hence, this movie have a good story, but ruined by poor execution.

Low light for the sake of creating the unknown makes the movie generally black screen. Batman does this trick to create dark nuance yet only accomplish dark picture. Poor cinematography and storyline in the name of art leaves only the watcher bewildered to what is going on. The ghost doesn't look like a ghost, more like sexy eccentric person.

Awful.

Considering that the movie was told to be based on a true story, the director should have a solid storyline, but instead the director seem lacking in a complete background story leaving the movie swivelling out of control. The poor acting from the ghost makes this worst.

Poor screenplay and directing.