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"Dejavu: Ajian Puter Giling" is kinda unique among other Indonesian horror movies where it embraces mystery and psychological horror theme with some twists in the story, however it's quite a shame that the final scene ruins the movie where it devolves into a killer ghost/demon movie, and the ending also feels rushed as there are still few things that are not explained clearly in the movie. It looks like the writer already had a good idea at start but didn't know how to write a good ending for the movie. Nevertheless, I still appreciate the movie and I hope to see more this kind of horror movie in Indonesia.

I don't find the movie to be scary, it's more like a thriller horror movie to me. The premise of the story is about a teenage girl (Amara) who performs a ritual at a haunted well to make a wish to talk with her deceased father, but apparently the well doesn't grant a wish and instead it summons an evil spirit that harms the surrounding people around the girl. The movie has some violent scenes but it doesn't have much scares in it, there are few jump scares in the movie, especially there is one straight face jump scare which is really annoying, this kind of jump scare feels cheap nowadays and shouldn't be used if anyone wants to make a good horror movie. Unfortunately the movie has really nothing to offer besides these things, the story is too simple, some viewers might had predicted how the protagonist would solve the evil spirit problem during the course of movie, and there are few things in the story that doesn't make sense too. I wish there is an interesting twist in the story, but unfortunately there is none. I think the movie could be better if the story goes with pyschological horror direction instead of just about a slasher demon which is already too common, like for example, the protagonist could make a wish for her father to be revived instead and the wish is really granted and her father is really revived where he looks like a normal person at first, however there is something creepy about the father later, and so on. Indonesian horror movie industry needs good scriptwriters if it wants to compete with horror movies from hollywood and south korea.

Only jump scares, there is no real story at all. No villain, no suspense, and some plot holes in the movie. The amount of jump scares is too much which is quite annoying. Since the movie doesn't have good story at all, so it's not surprising that it only relies on the jump scares. The movie is basically about finding the whereabouts of the main character's sister and the mystery surrounding of one character that stays in the haunted villa. But the problem in the story is solved easily at the end which would make you feel you are wasting your time watching the movie. The reveal of some characters at the end isn't suprising at all since the hints have already been given in the middle of story if you pay attention or if you had watched other ghost movies with similar theme you can already guess it easily. It feels like this movie was made for television rather than cinema.