''Terowongan Casablanca'' (The Casablanca Tunnel) is a 2007

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n horror film written by Faldhin Martha and directed by Nanang Istiabudi.

Background

The film is (loosely) based upon an Indonesian legend that the

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in Jakarta is haunted by a woman who went there in the 1970s to attempt an abortion, was unsuccessful, and died as a result.

Plot

Refa and Astari have been a couple for a year, Astari becomes pregnant. An angry Refa lures her the Casablanca Tunnel to force an abortion, and in an attempt to flee, Astari is captured and buried alive with her unborn child. Astari returns as a

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known as

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to seek revenge on Refa and his friends.

Cast

* Donny Arifin * Ki Joko Bodo * Nino Fernandez * Jupiter Fortissimo * Titi Qadarsih * Ardina Rasti * Ray Sahetapy * Asha Shara * Aldiansyah Taher * Five Vi

Reception

''Slasherpool'' found the film unintentionally hilarious for its poor quality and the amateurish manner of its attempt to be a serious horror film when they offered "I haven't laughed this hard in a long time. It's only unfortunate that ''Terowongan Casablanca'' wasn't intended to be funny." The reviewer panned the film as a horror, noting its sub-par sound quality, poor choices of effects, bad cinematography, bad acting, poor editing, and extreme overuse of "scary" effects, writing "they didn't have enough money to do great special effects, so instead they crammed countless of cheap effects in every scene", "bad editing can also be blamed for the ridiculous amount of loud scare noises that have been crammed into every single frame of the movie", "the incompetent director and his frantic camerawork". And of the film inadvertently being a comedy, "This is the funniest horror movie I've seen in a long time but at the same time the most atrocious one in recent memory. I can't believe people are allowed to make movies this bad", and "If you're looking for a movie so bad that you won't be able to avoid laughing through the entire thing, ''Terowongan Casablanca'' is the movie for you."

Influences

The novel ''Terowongan Casablanca'' by Ruwi Meita, was written based upon the Faldin Martha screenplay . The book is now in libraries throughout Indonesia, and archived by

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in its Asia Collection.

References

External links

"Terowongan Casablanca"
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