Satan's Slaves

Not sure why this movie is getting such good reviews if you seen Insidious or any of those type of movies you've seen this one. The only difference is it's in Indonesian.

Usually if characters "act" in a certain way (meaning not really smart or favourable), I tend to dislike the movie and won't have really a good time watching it. This movie walks that fine line and also walks another very difficult line masterfully: combining horror and comedy (or light moments to be more specific). There are certain moments, that really made my skin crawl. The ideas they had at some parts were really good. It may have the trappings of most horror movies, but you can either hold this against the movie or just roll with it. I can really recommend to do the latter, even if you are a bit of a cynic. The mood the cinematography captures is riveting ...

but still, I'm confused by some matters in this movie : why the grandma committed suicide by jumping into a well, what or who the evil spirit resembling the mother was (and why was she in the house anyway if in the end, the army of the dead were the ones who did all the final work?), what the zombies want from the family (I mean, they already got that little devil spawn brat with them, but then, why the hell were they still attacking the rest of the family? wasn't the zombies' purpose already be achieved by having the last child of the Satan's slave woman on their side ?), how granny's friend (the one who wrote mystery magazine and helped the rest of he family escape from the zombies, sorry for forgetting his name) escape from the attempted murder by the Satan's cult members, etc. had this confusion of mine been answered in the movie right away before I left the theater, I would have been giving this movie a straight 8 out of 10 instead of 7. This movie started as "the conjuring" or "insidious" then ended up as an amalgamation between "the omen" and "the walking dead" (the walking dead part is from the original movie though). but still, this is by far, one of the best and scariest Indonesian horror movie ever produced by my own country with the international standard of jump scare scenes, disturbing background music, unexpectable plot twist, and the kill bill inspired blood splash on some of the death scenes. not a bad movie by the Indonesian Quentin Tarantino, Joko Anwar, who wrote and directed the movie from the beginning to the end. I wish there would be much more of this kind of high-quality movie coming out from Indonesia (though it doesn't always have to be horror, we already did a very good job with "The Raid" and "The Raid 2" despite the nationality of the director).