Pengabdi Setan [Movie Review]

I have read a few great reviews about Pengabdi Setan that I just have to watch it for myself - just to know whether the hype is true or just gimmick.

And I dragged two of my best friends, who hates horror film to watch it with me. Haha. Sorry guys. SYNOPSIS Rini is the eldest child of a once-famous singer who is currently bedridden with no source of income. Even the father is also unable to provide more to the family as the savings are all used up for treatment and their house is also on a mortgage. She quit college just so she could take care of her wheelchair-bound grandmother and three younger brothers.

How many times I told you to use a shade lighter for your foundation - now you look like a zombie!

The mother, Marwani, bedridden with a mysterious sickness uses a bell to signal her family should she needs anything from them. Rini and her brother, Tony is always the ones that will come to their mother's side to aid her in her needs. 
On one particular night, when Rini wakes up from a nightmare and hears the bell sound from her mother's bedroom, she runs up to the room where she finds her mother standing still in front of the window before falling down and die on the spot. 

You peed on the sheet? Ma will lose her head!

Her father confesses to the Ustaz of the village that the family doesn't pray, it is just their lifestyle. Right after the burial, the father wants to search for a better job in the city and leaves the family in the hands of Rini and her grandmother.
And the haunting starts. The children start to see their mother and hear the sound of the bell in the middle of the night. Even the son of the ustaz, Hendra also sees the mother at the burial ground and also inside the house.

Oh my! He fated to my face!

Adik, don't wear my lipstick again ok or I will spank you hard!

After Bondi (the second boy in the family) found their grandmother dead in the indoor well, he immediately changes character. He keeps silent (in an eerie way) and seems to be wanting to hurt his younger brother, Ian who is mute. The haunting gets stronger after that up to a point when Rini was disturbed while performing her solah for the first time. 
Rini found a letter on her grandmother's table and went to see Budiman, her grandmother's friend who writes about paranormal activities. From Budiman, Rini learns about a satanic cult that involves a singer who prays to Satan for offsprings. And it was rumoured that the last child from the womb of the slaves must be sacrificed to the cult.

Too much decoration for a tomb?

Tony reads about this cult from a magazine given to Rini by Budiman and starts to wonder whether Ian is the child in question.  Who is Ian?
Will the family be safe? MY REVIEW Plot: 4.8/ 5.0. It was full of twists and turns that will make you wonder throughout the movie - who is the bad guy and what will happen next. The horror factor in this movie is high - I even jumped in my seat and put my feet up, several times! I have never done this before! Believe me - it is that SCARY! The Act: 4.8/5.0. I have no complaints about the acting. Everybody was committed to their characters - it is just that Bront Palare as an Indonesian father was a bit ... how should I put it - he still sounds like a Malaysian in his slang. But great acting! Will I watch it again: NO. Too scary for me! Hahaha. Not alone that is. Haha. Rawlins GLAM
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