Review of Primbon

Primbon (2023)
1/10
Just Awful
3 February 2024
Horror Indonesian movies in these past years have become significantly better with its new releases. Although the quality of each movie varies from the generic jumpscare-filled movies to actual neatly-executed movies, the general improvement of the quality is quite impressive. But this movie, is something else.

Initially, the storyline had some sort of structure. But over time, the movie just progressed to the worse. All of the characters have no prominent personality which failed the audience, not even the main characters have that. They also have nearly no character development, so for the most part, the dialogues felt a bit forced. Even those who can actually act were not saved in this movie.

The story itself which was initially promising was all over the place. By the lack of the character developments and the lack of characters' chemistry towards each other, it just made the storyline didn't go as smooth as other movies. The detaiIs of the movie were also not given out nicely. It really did start off promising, but the execution was done poorly.

At least, the background of the movie was quite spot-on especially for those who were brought up from Javanese culture. But other than that, there was really nothing good about this movie.

To be honest, I don't remember the last time I watched a movie this bad. I don't even remember the last time I rated a movie 1/10 stars. But it really is that bad. Please don't waste your time watching this.
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