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Bukan Pocong Biasa
That night Jaki, Remon, Papay, Niken and Anna headed to the top to make a short film about people's lives at the foot of the hill. In the course of the car driven by Jaki Cs the tires were flat. They stopped right in front of the Awful house, when they were going to replace the spare tire they lost their jack and finally they decided to enter the haunted house to find a loan from the jack. Because they did not know that the house they entered was haunted because there were pocong who like to disturb anyone who enters the house.
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Plot Summary
A group of friends accidentally awakens a pocong, a ghost bound in a burial shroud, during a camping trip. To appease the spirit and survive, they must fulfill its final wish before it unleashes its fury upon them.
Critical Reception
Bukan Pocong Biasa received mixed to negative reviews, with many critics and audiences finding the film to be a formulaic and uninspired horror-comedy. While some appreciated the attempts at humor, the overall execution was often deemed lacking in genuine scares or comedic timing.
What Reviewers Say
The film attempts to blend horror with comedy, but often falls flat on both fronts.
The scares are predictable, and the humor fails to land effectively.
Relies heavily on genre tropes without offering anything new.
Google audience: Audience reception for Bukan Pocong Biasa appears to be largely unimpressed, with many viewers citing a lack of originality and weak execution in both the horror and comedy elements as significant drawbacks.
Fun Fact
The film is part of a trend of Indonesian horror-comedies that emerged in the late 2000s and early 2010s, often featuring supernatural beings in humorous or absurd situations.
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