KaraK

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KaraK is the latest Malay movie from KRU Studios on the silver screen, with screening date started since 26th May 2011. KaraK is a horror flick. Horror movie is not really on top of my genre list, but I can still enjoy one as long as it is not a movie without substance at all. My buddy actually wanted to watch another movie, but due to timing issues, we ended up watching this movie instead. 

In a gist, 4 college students who were on their way back to Kuantan from Kuala Lumpur, were stuck in a massive traffic jam on the Karak Highway. The time was already late and fearing they would be late for their classes the next morning, they decided to exit the highway and used the old road through the Karak Town instead. However, their decision was a fatal mistake. How come? The old Karak road is notorious as being keras (meaning sort of haunted). The students; Jack, Ida, Nik and Zura, encountered disturbances from the 'other beings' ever since they reached Karak Town until at a part of the old road, the disturbance led them to swerved from the main road and fall deep into a valley in a forest. With a broken car, wounded and lost, they searched for help until they found the house of Tok Malam, an old man of native origin, deep inside the forest. From that point onwards, weird and scary things occurred to them and later, the actual story behind the accident is revealed.

That was the gist. I think it is common  that people always meet with unwanted consequences when they go overboard with something. In any case, never forget that nothing is more powerful then Allah swt, as He is the creator of every 'beings', and always seek help from none other than Allah. One part at the end of the movie is a good advice to always remember; don't just memorize the words of Allah, but know the meanings and have faith. It's significantly serious when Zura opened the Ayatul Qursi and yet it's blank, the writing's gone. See it in another perspective.

As for me, the storyline is quite typical. And the actings, in general, is nothing out of the ordinary. As for scariness, the first creature in the prologue is perhaps the scariest of all, afterwards, nothing more. The elements of shocks and surprises are less than a handful. However, nothing so cheesy and it is not so difficult to understand. Still, a good job.