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What I loved most: Neat editing & cinematography
What I really hated: The gossip mongers kampung folks
This is a horror movie with a different - it is a cross between an art movie, a love story and a family drama with horror elements thrown in. The movie begins with a freak accident involving Nasrin (Natasha Hudson in her award winning film debut) that result in an ugly scar on her face. From then on, she keep on listening to voices calling her name and started to act strangely. She even avoiding her fiancee Yusuf (Farid Kamil) and wanted to call off their engagement. Things get worsen when she became obsessed with an antique mirror that her mother Siti (Khatijah Tan) found in their house's store room. Apparently, the mirror is haunted by the spirit of Mastura (Deanna Yusoff in a misscast role), the great step-grandmother of Nasrin who practiced black magic during her lifetime. Since Mastura has an unfinished business decades ago with Nasrin's paternal great grand father, her spirit slowly possesing Nasrin to create havoc within the family and among the kampung folks. Then, strange things and murders began to happen in the once peacefull kampung and it is up to Nasrin and her mother to fight back the evil Mastura. What impressed me most with the film is its neat editing and beautiful cinematography. The scene that I like most is when Nasrin was facing the haunted mirror and her image was replaced by Mastura at the other end of the mirror. The flashback during the kenduri scene was also beautifully done. The film also did not resort to using the cliche long haired ugly looking ghost image just like most of Asian horror flicks. In fact, the ghost in this film is a beatiful caucasian looking woman that scare peoples with her body language, eye contact and sexy laugh. All these make this is a beautifull horror movie indeed. However, the CGI image during the film finale could have been done better - its looks quite amateurish. Kudos to first time director Zarina Abdullah and her team for producing this beautiful horror movie. She and Natasha Hudson truly deserve to win the most promising director and actress awards respectively at the recent Malaysian Film Festival (FFM20).
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What I loved most: The house where they make the movie..love it
What I really hated: Deana Yusuf shouldn't act in this movie cause of her 'mat saleh'slang
The story line is almost refer to Western horor movie,not Malaysian style.Deana can act but her slang damage this movie,should find someone else as 'Mastura' is acting in the 50' or 60'.The ghost that appear look like 'Western' ghost.I wish when i came out from the cinema it could give me an impact but i feel the same
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if u want cheap thrills this is not the horror movie for u. if you dun like horrors in general then this is the movie u wana watch. if you appreciate stunning visuals and stunning sound and visual...you wont want to miss this!! c u at the movie!
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What I loved most: Visual Poetry
A magnificient first movie by newcomers Zarina & Ummi! Congratulations to all involved. Worth watching and audience will find it different from the typical horror films out there. Great for family, for couples, for a nite/day out at the movies.
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