A man is on a holiday in the woods with his wife and two kids when they are surprised by the arrival of an uninvited guest. Suddenly, he experiences a time lapse. Before he understands what’s going on, he finds himself separated from his family. And when he starts finding several alarm clocks that seem to have been planted throughout the woods, he knows he has to race with time if he wants to see his family alive. Meanwhile, another family is in the woods, who may be related to the strange going-on. –SXSW
Joko Anwar was born in 3 January 1976 in a poor kampong in Medan, North Sumatera where he grew up watching kung fu movies and horror films. He had also written and directed plays as a student. He went to Institut Teknologi Bandung to study Aerospace Engineering because his family could not afford to send him to a film school. After graduated in 1999, he became a journalist at The Jakarta Post and later a film critic.
During an interview with Nia Dinata for The Jakarta Post, the film producer was impressed and asked him to write for her new project which was later titled Arisan! (2003). The film earned commercial and critical success and won numerous awards including “Best Film” at the 2005 Indonesian Film Festival and “Best Movie” at the 2004 MTV Indonesia Movie Awards. He went on to direct a feature film, the romantic comedy Janji Joni (Joni’s Promise) (2005), which he wrote when he was in college in 1998. This feature directorial debut was the #1 box office hit in Indonesia… read more
Hardly frightful and impaired by Rio Dewanto's awful performance, “Modus Anomali” proved to be obtuse in many ways. Full Review and Rating: http://alwayswatchgoodmovies.blogspot.com/2013/04/modus-anomali-2012.html
For the constant twists and turns, it's surprising that this drags out the way it does until maybe 20mins before the ending. I've come to admire Joko Anwar's work, but unfortunately Modus Anomali is not what I have come to expect from him. Could benefit from a tighter direction, better editing and better acting. Maybe it would work as a short film.
