Movie Review: Sabrina (2018)

 is an Indonesia demonic horror film available in the America on Netflix. Sabrina is named after the doll featured in the film. The doll is almost grey alien-like having big blue eyes and would have important use in the film, especially for a little girl. Andini and her wife die young while taking care of their daughter, Vanya. Her aunt Maira and uncle Aiden take her and treat them just like her parents. Although her mom is dead, Vanya tries to communicate or even play with her using the method called Charlie, Charlie. She did get to them successfully. Her piblings brought her a doll to soothe her feelings about Andini’s passing, but still wanted to be in touch with her. Hooking up with dead people, even loved ones, wouldn’t be a good idea and it often brings sinister forces, like demon. Demons can possess anyone, even the doll can be possessed. Vanya was playing with her mom then a demon takes over her and stabbed her mom then attacked paranormal experts who came to the house to stop them from getting her mother to leave. They go to toy factory to see the making of dolls. Then the demon is there and possessed Maira and trapped in the room. Then paranormal experts stormed into the room and they get attacked by possessed Maira. The possession can spread from person to person just like germs. The intense exorcism takes place on possessed Lara, saying lines like “There will be no power but Your help, ruler of heaven and earth.” There’s a demon in the mirror, then Maira and Aiden threw across the room and glass broke, but demon didn’t break and was standing on broken mirror frame. Now the final battle, Lara vs. demon. Lara stabs demon with metallic claws couple of time before wielding the sword to finish him off. Once defeated, he was disintegrated into black clouds then went away. Demon is dead. Then Vanya hugs Andini by the outside door under daylight. Andini gave her love then tell her that she gotta go back to her afterlife. It turns out that was just her dream.

Although there’s a lot of dark forces in the film, there’s both light and dark in there. Many say Sabrina is a waste, to me Sabrina is a worthy addition to supernatural horror film genre. Although it’s technically not a sequel, it is actually a continuation of the two The Doll films which I yet to see. At the very final scene, there’s a making of doll that will be worse than Sabrina. Does this mean there will be another movie in the series? We shall see…

8/10