![]() Stamboel doesn’t try to hide the fact that Linda is the little girl in the prologue and her nightmares repressed memories of terror. ![]() While Jessica (Marsha Aruan), Beni (Irsyadillah), Dian (Susan Sameh), and Alex (Ciccio Manassero) have the money to bribe the guard (Mike Lucock’s Heri) of an old abandoned building they want to use as the site of a viral video, they need Linda’s familiarity with him to facilitate the transaction. The fatigue of working double shifts on top of high school just to attempt raising the money she’ll need to afford college has her on-edge and in no position to do anything stupid enough to jeopardize that goal-unless a cute boy (Jefri Nichol’s Erik) talks to her unprovoked before his friend asks for a favor. We fast-forward a few years to meet Linda (Caitlin Halderman) waking from a nightmare in Ms. Her young daughter is held captive, the police are banging on the door, and we’re at a complete loss for comprehension. ![]() He introduces a group of men holding the demon down while also coercing a woman (Salvita Decorte’s Nancy) to read a phrase only she sees on a weathered piece of parchment. But that’s exactly how writer/director Kimo Stamboel opens his cinematic adaptation of DreadOut-an indie survival horror video game from Indonesia. It’s therefore rare to receive scenes of demonic possession wherein a writhing body with black fluid spewing from its mouth screams for a portal not to be opened. ![]() Malignant forces within Catholic tales of evil generally seek to create Hell on Earth by finding a host willing to read the ancient words serving as their key. ![]()
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