"Said villa has no phone signal, but does benefit from regular power cuts, an old Dutch cemetery located barely 300m away, a live-in creepy uncle, regular visions of a little girl dressed in white, an obviously cursed well, and a forbidden room which may or may not be included in the floor plan. The characters immediately clock that the situation resembles a horror movie, and frankly, you'd lose all respect for them if they didn't."
"Why would a dumb jock, shy nerd, irritating guy, tomboy and girly girl with no real backstory be hanging out here anyway? The film gets into some slightly sticky territory when the characters have discussions of the make it make sense variety, but is on firmer footing with anything that involves commenting on and playing around with the various tropes of horror movies."
"Director Yusron Fuadi obviously owes a debt here to the aforementioned Cabin in the Woods, the enjoyable 2011 horror comedy directed by Drew Goddard and scripted by Goddard and Joss Whedon but then Cabin in the Woods owed a debt to Scream, which owed a debt to Halloween, which owed a debt to Psycho, and so on and so forth, through a constellation of countless horrors, self-reflexive and otherwise."
The Draft! is an Indonesian slasher set in an isolated jungle villa near an old Dutch cemetery and features regular power cuts, no phone signal, a cursed well, visions of a little girl in white, a creepy live-in uncle, and a mysteriously omitted forbidden room. The characters quickly recognise cinematic clichés and find themselves embroiled in a meta-horror game that interrogates and plays with both global and specifically Indonesian horror tropes. The film grows wilder and sillier as it progresses, balancing trope commentary with slasher thrills. Director Yusron Fuadi channels influences from Cabin in the Woods and other genre touchstones. The Draft! releases digitally on 27 October.
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