I haven’t heard of this project. Its called Macabre but the trailer insists that it is called Dara, after the name of one of the characters in the film, however; the meaning of the words might be the same but different in Indonesian dialect. If you know, let me know, please. On IMDB, directors Kimo Stamboel and Timo Tjahjanto did a short film called Dara with almost the same premise – perhaps it is a title rework.

Plot: Two newly weds Adjie and Astrid, along with 3 of their best friends decided to have an interstate road trip as a last attempt to reconcile Adjie with his estranged little sister Ladya. Their trip is however abruptly interrupted when they run into Maya, a strange girl out of nowhere, who wanders aimlessly into their path. “I’ve been robbed” is all she has to say. The friends unanimously decided to give her a ride to her isolated house by the end of the woods. Maya introduces Adjie and friends to her blue-blooded mother Dara, a woman of ageless enigma and few spoken words. Dara insists that their kindness should be repaid with a dinner feast. This is where the night turns violent.

The trailer and the plot doesn’t really help in describing what Macabre is really all about. From the trailer, all I can make out is a sophisticated but disturbed family who have a hard-on for gruesome (where the word macabre comes into play) torture and murder. There is a feel of brutality about it which can be enjoyable. The NSFW trailer is after the jump…