Thursday, March 27, 2025

PABRIK GULA (Sugar Mill) (2025)


A group of young men and women who work as seasonal workers, arrive at a sugar factory and quickly run into trouble when they discover that the factory isn't on this plane of existence.

This is an uneven horror film where the story is there, the cast sells the proceedings and the sound and music crew undercut all of the terror by working every minute of the film and clueing the audience something is going to happen before it does. Seriously the music cues hit five seconds before anything spooky happens. That the score and soundtrack wound the film is a real shame because the images of the demons and the damned souls are so good that their chilling quality would have  been enhanced by some silence. Too many times we are signaled that a demon is near by the muspic well before they pop out.
 
If you can get past the music, this is a pretty good horror film. Yes, it's a bit over long, but the demons and the set pieces really kick ass and make this a film you will want to see. The horror images are chilling and are worth the price of admission.

Worth a look.

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