A family feels that something strange is about to happen when the mother in the family dies. Has she played with dark powers?
Satan’s Slaves is an Indonesian horror movie that has nothing new to offer. We follow a family of six. They turn into five when the mother dies, and the family sees a strange figure in the house that scares them. Who is this figure? Is it their late mother, or is there something else that haunts the house? Or have they gone crazy?
One can call Satan’s Slaves a generic horror movie that has no surprising scenes. It tries at least to create a tense atmosphere, and it partially succeeds with that. Most of the plot takes place inside the spooky house. This house is worn and ugly, which helps to create a little extra and free atmosphere.
The characters are poorly written. I couldn’t care about them, nor did I feel that the movie was able to create anything special in terms of what’s happening to the family. As a viewer, I like to take part in a journey where you have many questions when the movie holds back the answers. But I didn’t feel that I got a reward when the end credits appeared on the screen.
The movie introduces a few characters that the family has contact with. The universe is small, and I felt that the movie never built stone upon stone and then end with a real climax.
Satan’s Slaves has a cool and appealing title, but this is not a graphic movie. It’s a movie that aims to scare the viewers with the atmosphere, and with a figure that appears in the house. It creates some tense atmosphere, but it’s not that scary. I was expecting more of this movie. In my opinion, it’s a movie that is overhyped and overrated.