Pengabdi Setan 2: Communion (original title)
When the heavy storm hits, it wasn’t the storm that a family should fear but the people and non-human entities who are out for them.
Indonesian genre kingpin Joko Anwar (“Gundala,” “Impetigore”) continues his run of hits with “Satan’s Slaves 2: Communion,” a juicy if slightly overstuffed sequel to his 2017 supernatural horror hit “Satan’s Slaves.” Set in a brutalist concrete apartment block that looks like hell on Earth even before ghouls and zombies start terrorizing the first film’s surviving family members, “Communion” serves up suspense, scares and gallows humor with considerable style. This handsomely mounted widescreen chiller is sure to lure plenty of eyeballs to streaming platform Shudder when unleashed in territories including North America and the U.K. on November 4.
Having enjoyed commercial and critical success for most of the nine features he’s directed since debuting with the delightful romantic comedy “Joni’s Promise” in 2005, Anwar’s stock has never been higher. “Communion” attracted 6.3 million local theatrical admissions in August, making it the third-highest-grossing Indonesian film of all time. “Satan’s Slaves” presently sits at number nine on the honor roll. Anticipation will now be high among Anwar’s sizeable fan base and 1.8 million social media followers after his April announcement of plans to adapt Charles Beaumont’s 1953 sci-fi-horror short story “Fritzchen” as his first English-language production.
Much larger in scope and scale than the 2017 film, a dynamic re-imagining of Sisworo Gautama Putra’s 1982 horror favorite, “Communion” arrives with an expanded backstory and clear evidence of groundwork being laid for the series to continue beyond this second chapter. While the setup for a third installment brings a little clutter and confusion that slightly detracts from the otherwise exciting finale, Anwar enriches the tale elsewhere with new story elements.
The best of these is an extended opening sequence set in 1955 which features Budiman (Egy Fedly), the journalist from the first film. After being escorted in secrecy to an isolated observatory, Budiman is shown the bizarre sight of corpses that have appeared out of nowhere and adopted praying positions. The incident is quickly covered up for political reasons but not before local police chief Heru (Rukman Rosadi) asks his friend Budiman to take photographs and reveal the truth someday.
Genre: Drama | Horror | Mystery
IMDB Rating Live: https://m.imdb.com/title/tt16915972/
IMDB Rating: 6.9/10 From 2,230 Users
Resolution: 1280×544
Directed by: Joko Anwar
Starring: Tara Basro , Endy Arfian , Nasar Annuz
Release Name: ssc2022720pwebh264-dddd
Release Date: November 4, 2022 (United States)
Audio: Indonesian | AAC | 160 kb/s
Runtime: 1 h 59 min
Subtitles: English
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