Dear reader Kompasiana,
There have been many reviews about this popular horror film in Indonesia, Dancing Village: The Curse Begins (Indonesia: Badarawuhi di Desa Penari). Just watched on Netflix and will try to review in english. So that Indonesian horror films are also more known by international audiences.Â
Dancing Village: The Curse Begins (Indonesia: Badarawuhi di Desa Penari) is a 2024 Indonesian folk horror film directed by Kimo Stamboel. This is a new film released at the beginning of the year. Inviting curiosity and curiosity because based on a viral horror story titled Student Community Service in Dancing Village (Indonesia: KKN di Desa Penari) by SimpleMan.Â
This film produced by MD Pictures. The filming was carried out in Yogyakarta and Jakarta. The filming process lasted for 36 days from August to October 2023. Dancing Village: The Curse Begins (Indonesia: Badarawuhi di Desa Penari) played by Aulia Sarah as our beautiful and enchanting, Badarawuhi. The other main characters are played by Maudy Effrosina and Jourdy Pranata as Mila and Yuda. There is Iqbal Sulaiman as Jito, Ardit as Arya, Claresta Taufan Kusumarina as Ratih, Diding Boneng as Mbah Buyut, Aming as young Mbah Buyut.
So let's take a look at the synopsis of this Dancing Village: The Curse Begins (Indonesia: Badarawuhi di Desa Penari).Â
You will be taken into time under the year 1990 and enter the remote area of Java, Indonesia. The village is a unique remote village where there are many mysteries stored. Especially the mystery surrounding the dancers and the beautiful entity.
The story starts with Mila and her friends from city. Mila is seeking unique remote village in Java with iconic dancer to save her mother of an unknown creepy disease. Then Mila and her friend went to a Dance Village.
There Mila stayed at Ratih's house where it was later found out that Ratih's mother was also sick like Mila's mother. Mila experienced many strange events until she was faced with the beautiful dancer Badarawuhi. It seems that there was a supernatural agreement when their mother turned out to be born and raised in that remote village.Â
Mila continues to dig into her mother's past without realizing that she is being targeted by the entity there. Horror incidents continue to grapple with livestock deaths. Finally, the old shaman and the locals agreed to restart the special ritual of the Dance Village.
