Inang

When I sat down here in 2023 to watch the 2022 Indonesian horror movie "Inang" (aka "The Womb"), I hadn't heard about the movie at all. But it being an Asian horror movie was, of course, sufficient to make me want to watch it.

So I had no expectations to the movie, and writer Deo Mahameru and director Fajar Nugros had every opportunity to entertain, bedazzle and surprise me.

Well, I wasn't much of any of those three things actually, because "Inang" was a rather mundane and semi-boring horror movie. There wasn't much of anything scary happening in the movie at any time. And while the storyline actually was adequate enough, there just simply wasn't enough drive to the narrative to keep this movie above the waters of mediocrity.

The acting performances in "Inang" were good. I wasn't familiar with the cast, but they actually put on good performances, despite of only having limited material to work with.

As much as I enjoy horror movies and with all the horror movies I have sat through, then "Inang" doesn't even remotely come close to being a memorable or scary movie experience. As silently as this movie crept in under the radar, just as quietly will it fade back into oblivion. "Inang" is the type of movie that you watch once, shelf it and never glance at its direction a second time.

And that ending of the movie was just so predictable that you saw it coming a mile away.

My rating of "Inang" lands on a four out of ten stars.