Guna Guna Istri Muda (2023 film)

This marks the 50th movie I've reviewed for this blog!

Thanks to all my supporters - I couldn't have got this far without you :)

Anyway, back to the high-quality and definitely not sarcastic movie reviews!

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Category: Foreign language supernatural horror

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The title of this movie roughly translates to "Black magic from the junior wife", and revolves around a successful businessman who takes a second wife who then takes it upon herself to launch a campaign of supernatural terror against the husband and his first wife for being left out of the fortune.

Now, Indonesia does things differently - I mean, it is a different place, but can they make a good horror film? Let's find out after the plot!

The plot:

The movie starts off with three women in a gym, Angel, Mayang and one other person doing some sort of yoga or Pilates session, presumably to keep them fit and desirable. After the session, Angel and Mayang discuss Angel's new boyfriend. The third woman then goes to the bathroom and notices an uncomfortable itch around her crotch. She removes her leggings and sees maggots in her underwear, her scalp then gets itchy, skin peels off, her body breaks out in pus and goo, then she seemingly drowns in a deluge of something resembling bodily fluids.

The Watchers (2024 film)

Category: Supernatural drama/thriller

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The majority of reviews I read for this 2024 supernatural drama movie rated it negatively. However, I enjoyed this movie enough (for the most part) to come to a different opinion, putting me in the minority of reviewers who thought this movie was overall positive. But there two lessons - know when to end a movie, and when will people learn to not blindly trust their GPS?

The plot explained:

Dakota Fanning plays Mina, an aspiring artist who works a dead-end job in Galway, Ireland, and is asked by her boss to drive a precious Golden Conure parrot to a zoo in Belfast.

However, just like with Outback, the GPS is the movie's first villain as it leads Mina deep into a forest with no paved road in the west of Ireland when her car suddenly breaks down and the electronics stop working. As she walks around the forest looking for assistance (caged Golden Conure in hand), she first notices her car isn't where she thought it was and can't be found, and then she suddenly sees an elderly woman walking alone. She gives chase to the elderly woman who leads her to an incongruous box-like structure whose defining feature is a large one-way mirror in the front that allows the outside to see in, but the people inside to only see their reflection.