Sebelum Iblis Menjemput: Ayat Dua (2020)

Sebelum Iblis Menjemput: Ayat Dua: Directed by Timo Tjahjanto. With Chelsea Islan, Widika Sidmore, Baskara Mahendra, Hadijah Shahab. Two years after escaping from demonic terror, the young woman is still haunted by unnatural vision. The dangers that await her and her friends are increasingly threatening: the figure of darkness rises to take their lives.

“As much as I like the predecessor, May the Devil Take You 2 doesnu0026#39;t live up to the expectations brought by the teasers or the Evil Dead vibes, which executed very well in the first film. The premise is too far-fetched, and the new groups here just too many, making itu0026#39;s reasonable to say that most of them are solely for the sake of body counts.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe exploitation nature of the movie, with good execution, can be enjoyable if we have relatively good characters or satisfying gory/horror scenes. However, this film (due to the body counts token) can only make one-dimensional characters with many weird dialogues or instances. The female lead Ms. Islan also canu0026#39;t justify othersu0026#39; acting due to the pressure of femme fatale scripts that wants her to be as badass as possible. The horror scenes are quite decent, but it takes away many chances to build suspense to focus on campy and brief jumpscares with white-faced ghosts.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eWith almost two hours (!!!) to build a movie on such a thin premise and somewhat inadequate central components, the movie canu0026#39;t hold my attention to join the roller coaster. The movie has its good scenes in the climax when not too many characters appear and the aim is precise. Itu0026#39;s not that worth of wait, but still interesting enough for you who wants to know more profound about the devilu0026#39;s nature.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eAlthough I am relatively disappointed by this movie, I still hope that there is a third installment just for the sake of living horror exploitation alive in Indonesia horror scenes. We are short of this kind of subgenre, and we need that to ensure that the whole horror word in Indonesia only can be defined as jumpscares.”