Agak Laen

In pursuit of their dream of changing their fate, four friends who guard a haunted house at a night market look for new ways to scare visitors to escape bankruptcy. Unfortunately, Bene, Jegel, Boris and Oki's efforts resulted in the death of one of their visitors. Panicking, they buried the victim in a haunted house. Unexpectedly, the victim's spirit wanders around, making the haunted house scary and busy with visitors. When the police started investigating, they were forced to carry out various ridiculous conspiracies to cover up the real incident. What will happen to them next?

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R96sk

'Agak Laen' may be a bit all over the place in terms of tone, but it is quite a fun flick all in all. It's well made too, it oddly gave me vibes of 2018's 'The Festival', particularly lighting-wise, for some reason - I didn't think I'd be making a connection between those two! Oki Rengga, Boris Bokir, Indra Jegel and Bene Dion make for good casting, they fit as a four and do come across as a friends group. Rengga and Bokir are the standouts, for me. Arie Kriting is the one I'd rank highest of the other cast members; all of whom are absolutely fine, at worst. The plot is a strange choice, I gotta say, for a comedy, I'm not convinced by how they blend it together but it works; even if the more sincere moments didn't quite hit as intended, at least to me. Oki's part at the conclusion is the closest a non-comedy bit came to hitting. Also, the product placement is kinda mad, proper egregious stuff. This is my first taste of Indonesian cinema, I assume this is the norm? I only guess that because I do know that their football broadcasts are/were ad-heavy; that's how I know what Torabika is, lol.

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