Pusaka

I love Indonesian horror, because they can often draw story details from their folklore and somewhat elevate overall basic horror scripts.

"Pusaka" is one of such movies. It's base script is very simple, the typical Indonesian family of 10 children and all their spouses and children go to inherit the house who's father\owner turn out to be into occult. One of them gets cut by a cursed kris sword and she gets possessed by a demon, which does very little change to her personality, but she becomes deadly and near indestructible and goes for rest of the family members picking them off one by one.

It's very basic script and movie overall isn't particularly good but not particularly bad either, it's fairly competently made with some fairly gruesome gore effects and death scene, it's just that it's script is very basic.

If you are in mood for good ol' haunted house movie where monster picks off dumb characters one by one, go for it, because it delivers on gore and kills, otherwise skip it.

Stumbling upon the 2024 Indonesian horror movie "Pusaka" by random chance here in 2025, then there was not a shadow of doubt that I would sit down and watch it, as the movie combined two of my favorite genres of movies, that being horror and Asian. Sure, I had never heard about this movie from director Rizal Mantovani prior to sitting down and watching it, not that it really mattered. So I suppose that the director had every opportunity readily available to entertain and impress me.

Writer Husein M. Atmodjo put together a fair and entertaining enough script. It was not a particularly innovative script, but it proved to be entertaining nonetheless. I was adequately entertained by the storyline.

While I've seen a fair share of Indonesian movies, then I wasn't familiar with the cast ensemble in the movie. It should be noted, though, that the acting performances were good and they had a good and talented ensemble of actors and actresses.

The effects in "Pusaka" were actually quite good, and definitely added to the overall impression of the movie. While some of the make-up effects on the possessed might have been simplistic, it actually looked good and helped define the character.

"Pusaka" had a great atmosphere to it, which was accomplished by the setting of the house, the lighting and the props, and it worked well in favor of the movie.

My rating of director Rizal Mantovani's 2024 movie "Pusaka" lands on a five out of ten stars.