DreadOut

This movie is in the completely different class from other Kimo Stamboel's movie. The sound, cinematography, special effects, makeup and other filmographies are OK. However, the story, script, and plot are so so so terrible that it looks like they are made by junior highschool student for class project.

This could be a great "horror" movie IF there wasn't a lot of "jokes", the actors swears a lot and I know that's not supposed to be funny but the audiences were laughing everytime the actors sweared, that's annoying for horror films. Secondly, sometimes when it's a tense scene, the light is too bright, so we couldn't feel the "horror". Thirdly, the CGI is bad, it's more like in the 90s. The writers should know more what the flashlight is for. I give this 4 outta 10 because the story line is good, they made the ghosts well and chose great casts. Honestly, I didn't terrified while watching this movie, I had no jumpscares, no goosebumps.

This movie just waste its story potential. I can't stand the acting from all of the cast, except Mike Lucock (he's a decent one here). The pacing is so messy, the execution is blurry outta nowhere. Plot holes. But, the thing I like the special effects (tho it's not that perfect) and the makeup of all of the ghosts in the movie. That's it. Cinematography just average good. This movie dissapoints me.

I was fortunate enough to get the opportunity to sit down to watch the 2019 Indonesian horror movie "DreadOut". And I must admit that I was looking forward to watching it, as the movie's cover/poster definitely looked interesting. Sure, I hadn't even heard about the movie prior to sitting down to watch it. But it being a horror movie was all I needed.

And well, the term horror is one that you should casually glance at here, because "DreadOut" wasn't a scary movie. Maybe if you are a teenager in Indonesia, then "DreadOut" is scary. But for a seasoned horror veteran such as myself, then this was a mere stroll in the park. In fact, "DreadOut" was a rather mundane and boring movie actually.

Why is that you might wonder? Well, first of all, the storyline was just laughably simplistic and downright stupid. In fact, there were so many things in the storyline - or whatever atrocious thing this was supposed to resemble a storyline. Most of the events in the movie just felt random and put into the movie at the whim of a whimsical director. It felt like writer and director Kimo Stamboel didn't really have a script to work from and just made things up as the filming progressed. The movie lacked a red thread and had little to no continuity.

Then there was the acting performances. Well, let's just say bless the actors and actresses for participating in this heap of a movie, and trying to make something work out of the rubbish they had to work with.

Visually, then this is where "DreadOut" worked. The visual effects and CGI in the movie were actually really great. I liked that quite a lot, but special effects can only do so much for a movie that has virtually no script or storyline. But I will say that if you do get the opportunity to watch "DreadOut", do it for the special effects.

My rating of the 2019 movie "DreadOut" settles on a mere three out of ten stars. This is by no means a horror movie that I will be returning to watch for a second time. And it is not even remotely close to being near the top of the shelf when it comes to horror movies made in Indonesia. I found out that there is a sequel to this 2019 movie, and I can't really say that I am in a particular rush to go out there and find a copy to watch.

The movie would have been great if it weren't ruined by bad acting from some of the supporting actors (Cicio manasero & Irsyadillah) who apparently was too superficial which any viewers can see through the bad acting. The plot and story lines was quite decent, but the director just couldn't put it into the perfect frame. I give 1 star for the story and another 1 star for the leading actress (Caitlin Halderman) whom I thought was the one thing that made me stick watching till the end.