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* DotingGrandparent: Mbah Darmo.
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* ArtisticLicenseEngineering: Lawang Sewu is depicted as a centuries-old abandoned house with vines growing over it. The real-life Lawang Sewu is a tourist attraction and is nowhere as derelict as seen in the film. Even the local government of Semarang has tried to repair the image of Lawang Sewu as a tourist attraction rather than a haunted house.
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* ArtisticLicenseEngineering: Justified and Averted assuming the film is set in the mid-2000s. Lawang Sewu is depicted as a centuries-old abandoned house with vines growing over it. The real-life Some FridgeBrilliance and ShownTheirWork here as the RealLife Lawang Sewu is was [[https://random-times.com/2019/11/30/a-visit-in-lawang-sewu-the-indonesian-house-of-thousand-doors/ left neglected up until it was restored in 2009 and inaugurated as a tourist attraction and in 2011]]. Since the, it is nowhere as derelict as seen in the film. Even the local government of Semarang has tried to repair the image of Lawang Sewu as a tourist attraction rather than a haunted house.
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* HopeSpotHopeSpot: Mbah Darmo conducts a SpookySeance in the hopes of getting some answers from the vengeful spirit. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, it ends up getting her killed]].
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* ActionGirl: Diska. She is shown to be level-headed and never freaks out even in the face of the kuntilanak and the resident ghosts of Lawang Sewu. She even goes back alone to Lawang Sewu to put an end on the kuntilanak's wrath.
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* AffectionateNickname: Diska is known "Dis" while Armen is simply known as "Men" for short.
* ArtisticLicenseEngineering: Lawang Sewu is depicted as a centuries-old abandoned house with vines growing over it. The real-life Lawang Sewu is a tourist attraction and is now where as derelict as seen in the film.
* ArtisticLicenseEngineering: Lawang Sewu is depicted as a centuries-old abandoned house with vines growing over it. The real-life Lawang Sewu is a tourist attraction and is now where as derelict as seen in the film.
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* AffectionateNickname: Diska is known "Dis" while Armen is simply known as for Diska, "Nil" for Onil, and "Men" for short.
Armen.
* AnguishedOutburst: In a mix of WhatWereYouThinking and YouMonster, Diska throws one at Armen after the latter [[spoiler: reveals the whole thing was a result of his irresponsibility for making Ratih pregnant]].
* ArtisticLicenseEngineering: Lawang Sewu is depicted as a centuries-old abandoned house with vines growing over it. The real-life Lawang Sewu is a tourist attraction and isnow where nowhere as derelict as seen in the film.film. Even the local government of Semarang has tried to repair the image of Lawang Sewu as a tourist attraction rather than a haunted house.
* AnguishedOutburst: In a mix of WhatWereYouThinking and YouMonster, Diska throws one at Armen after the latter [[spoiler: reveals the whole thing was a result of his irresponsibility for making Ratih pregnant]].
* ArtisticLicenseEngineering: Lawang Sewu is depicted as a centuries-old abandoned house with vines growing over it. The real-life Lawang Sewu is a tourist attraction and is
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* BigBoosHaunt: Lawang Sewu, which is haunted by the ghost of Dutch Woman, a headless man who was beheaded by the Japanese during World War II, the titular Kuntilanak, and several others spirits.
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* BigBoosHaunt: Lawang Sewu, which is haunted by the [[TokenMinority ghost of Dutch Woman, Woman]], a headless man who was beheaded [[OffWithHisHead beheaded]] by the Japanese [[UsefulNotes/KatanasOfTheRisingSun Japanese]] during World War II, the titular Kuntilanak, and several others spirits.
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* BitchInSheepsClothing: Armen. His tough guy facade ends once he goes face to face [[spoiler:with his undead ex-girlfriend.]]
* BittersweetEnding:
* BullyMagnet
* CandlelitRitual
* CassandraTruth: Mbah Darmo, Diska's grandmother, warns Diska and friends not to do the following around Lawang Sewu: (1) Do not shout inside the building, (2) Do not urinate around the grounds, and (3) Do not enter if one is in her period. Naturally, all but Diska violate these but she was forced to be dragged along her friend's mistake because Cika went missing.
* DemonicPossession: Dinda is possessed by the ghost of Noni van Hallen, a Dutchwoman, who warns them to leave Lawang Sewu.
* DirtyCoward: Armen
* DotingGrandparent
* DrivenToSuicide
* DwindlingParty
* EtherealWhiteDress
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Ratih as the kuntilanak does not seem to harm or even go after Diska, [[BecauseYouWereNiceToMe probably because Diska tried to help her]].
* EyeScream: After the kuntilanak removes one eye for each AssholeVictim she kills, as revenge for destroying her glasses during the infamous bullying incident.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Several of them
** Diska has dreams of being in a basement with wall complete with the kuntilanak rising from it.
* BittersweetEnding:
* BullyMagnet
* CandlelitRitual
* CassandraTruth: Mbah Darmo, Diska's grandmother, warns Diska and friends not to do the following around Lawang Sewu: (1) Do not shout inside the building, (2) Do not urinate around the grounds, and (3) Do not enter if one is in her period. Naturally, all but Diska violate these but she was forced to be dragged along her friend's mistake because Cika went missing.
* DemonicPossession: Dinda is possessed by the ghost of Noni van Hallen, a Dutchwoman, who warns them to leave Lawang Sewu.
* DirtyCoward: Armen
* DotingGrandparent
* DrivenToSuicide
* DwindlingParty
* EtherealWhiteDress
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Ratih as the kuntilanak does not seem to harm or even go after Diska, [[BecauseYouWereNiceToMe probably because Diska tried to help her]].
* EyeScream: After the kuntilanak removes one eye for each AssholeVictim she kills, as revenge for destroying her glasses during the infamous bullying incident.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Several of them
** Diska has dreams of being in a basement with wall complete with the kuntilanak rising from it.
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* BilingualBonus: When Dinda becomes possessed by the ghost of Dutchwoman, she manages to speak perfect Dutch in telling the group to leave Lawang Sewu. Props that the actress had to learn Dutch just for this short line.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Armen. [[BreakTheBadass His tough guy facadeends ends]] once he goes face to face [[spoiler:with the venegeful spirit of his undead ex-girlfriend.]]
*BittersweetEnding:
BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Diska, Yugo, and Onil survive the kuntilanak's wrath but their friends, including Diska's grandmother, are dead thanks to the antics of Armen, Naya, Cika, and Dinda years back. On the other hand, both Yugo and Onil are traumatized by the event, possibly taking years to recover from it. Lastly, this may also mean Diska's friendship with Yugo and Onil may end as they did nothing to stop the torment Armen and the girls did to Ratih]].
*BullyMagnet
BullyMagnet: Ratih, since she comes from Semarang rather than a city. It has something to do with the stereotype of those coming from the province being ignorant on city life.
*CandlelitRitual
CandlelitRitual: Along with the SpookySeance.
* CassandraTruth: Mbah Darmo, Diska's grandmother, warns Diska and friends not to do the following around Lawang Sewu: (1) Do notshout inside the building, (2) Do not urinate around the grounds, (2) Do not do immoral acts, and (3) Do one should not enter if one she is in on her period. Naturally, all but Diska violate these tenets but she was forced to be dragged along her friend's mistake friends' mistakes because Cika went missing.
* DemonicPossession: Dinda is possessed by the ghost of Noni van Hallen, a colonial Dutchwoman, who warns them to leave Lawang Sewu.
*DirtyCoward: DirtyCoward/: Armen
*DotingGrandparent
DotingGrandparent: Mbah Darmo.
*DrivenToSuicide
DraggedOffToHell: A close example: [[spoiler:Naya is suddenly [[PowerFloats lifted into the air by an unseen force]]]].
*DwindlingParty
DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:After Ratih was left pregnant by an irresponsible Armen, forced to strip naked in a scandal by her WithFriendsLikeThese, and thrown out of the house by her father following this incident, she felt no choice but to end her life in by tying a ball-and-chain into her leg and drowning herself in Lawang Sewu's basement well. That's how she became the kuntilanak.]]
*EtherealWhiteDress
DwindlingParty: As expected for a group of wild teens that find themselves in a haunted house.
* EtherealWhiteDress: The kuntilanak wears one, naturally.
* EvenEvilHasStandards:Ratih [[spoiler:Ratih]] as the kuntilanak does not seem to harm or even go after Diska, [[BecauseYouWereNiceToMe probably because Diska tried to help her]].
her]]. The kuntilanak also ignores the other people in the train (who also cannot see her), choosing to go after Dinda instead.
* EyeScream:After the The kuntilanak removes one eye for each AssholeVictim she kills, as revenge for destroying her glasses during the infamous bullying incident.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Several ofthem
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** Diska has dreams of being in a basement with wall complete withthe kuntilanak rising from a woman in a white dress jumping off into it.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Armen. [[BreakTheBadass His tough guy facade
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* CassandraTruth: Mbah Darmo, Diska's grandmother, warns Diska and friends not to do the following around Lawang Sewu: (1) Do not
* DemonicPossession: Dinda is possessed by the ghost of Noni van Hallen, a colonial Dutchwoman, who warns them to leave Lawang Sewu.
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* EtherealWhiteDress: The kuntilanak wears one, naturally.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Several of
** Diska has dreams of being in a basement with wall complete with
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* FreezeFrameBonus: Lawang Sewu has eerily-lit red lanterns adorning the entire building. Armen sees one in the mirror in Diska's house and is unsurprisingly terrified.
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* FreezeFrameBonus: Lawang Sewu has eerily-lit red lanterns adorning the entire building. Armen sees one in the mirror in Diska's house and is [[OhCrap unsurprisingly terrified.terrified]].
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* GhostTrainGhostTrain: Dinda finds herself in one she attempts to go back to Jakarta.
* HellIsThatNoise: The kuntilanak makes her presence known by the noise her ball-and-chain still stuck in her feel when she walks around. Doubles as a SinisterScrapingSound.
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* {{Jerkass}}
* KarmaHoudini: Onil (assuming he lives) and Yugo escape the kuntilanak's wrath but not entirely scott-free, as the experience has left them traumatized.
* KarmaHoudini: Onil (assuming he lives) and Yugo escape the kuntilanak's wrath but not entirely scott-free, as the experience has left them traumatized.
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* {{Jerkass}}
{{Jerkass}}: Armen, Cika, Dinda, and Naya. Onil and Yugo could partially count because they could have chose to stop the group from bullying Ratih but chose to look the other way.
* KarmaHoudini: Onil(assuming he lives) and Yugo (who were both complacent when their friends tormented Ratih) escape the kuntilanak's wrath but not entirely scott-free, as the experience has left them traumatized.traumatized and begging for their lives.
* KarmaHoudini: Onil
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* LightIsNotGood: Keep track of the eerily-let red lanterns.
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* LightIsNotGood: Keep track of the eerily-let red lanterns.eerily-lit lanterns in the background.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Armen has this the moment after some of his friends have died due to his irresponsible actions a few years back; as well as knowing he is next in line for the kuntilanak's victims.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Armen has this the moment after some of his friends have died due to his irresponsible actions a few years back; as well as knowing he is next in line for the kuntilanak's victims.
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** [[spoiler:Armen's body also disappears once the kuntilanak kills him outside a clothes line]].
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** [[spoiler:Naya, who was inexplicably lifted into the air and never seen again]].
** [[spoiler:Armen's bodyalso disappears is found wrapped under towel once the kuntilanak kills him outside a clothes line]].line but it also disappears later on]].
** [[spoiler:Armen's body
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* [[NiceGuy Nice Girl]]Girl]]: Diska
* NotSoDifferentRemark: Diska throws one at Yugo after she finds out the him and Onil, who chose to look the other way when Ratih was humiliated under the orders of Armen.
* NotSoDifferentRemark: Diska throws one at Yugo after she finds out the him and Onil, who chose to look the other way when Ratih was humiliated under the orders of Armen.
* OffWithHisHead: Onil and Dinda see the missing head of one of the people killed in Lawang Sewu in World War II.
* OhCrap: Each of the characters especially when they see the ghosts and come face-to-face with the kuntilanak
* OhCrap: Each of the characters especially when they see the ghosts and come face-to-face with the kuntilanak
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* ShoutOut
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* VengefulGhost: The kuntilanak, as per Indonesian-Malaysian folkore.
* ShoutOut
* SpookySeance
* VengefulGhost: The kuntilanak, as per Indonesian-Malaysian folkore.
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* RealityWarper
RealityWarper: The kuntilanak only appears to the ones she seeks vengeance. This is evident when Dinda tries to go back to Jakarta on a midnight train, she tries to escape the kuntilanak by going to the next car with other travelers. They all look at her with confused stares.
*ShoutOut
TheReveal:[[spoiler:Mbah Darmo believes that the kuntilanak is haunting the group because of revenge. After the SpookySeance, a flashback reveals the kuntilanak's identity and who caused her to go to commit suicide: It was after Ratih approaches Armen that she's pregnant in which the latter was so enraged, he told his friends to make a scandal out of her. Armen reveals all of this after the vengeful spirit of his ex-gilfriend comes for him]].
*SpookySeance
SayYourPrayers: A traumatized Onil can be seen praying once he realizes his life in danger by a vengeful spirit.
* ShoutOut:
**The gang splits up in a haunted house, [[Franchise/{{ScoobyDoo}} reminiscent of another iconic cartoon]].
**The story involves a [[Literature/{{TheRing}}haunted well with a vengeful spirit residing inside it]]. [[StringyHairedGhostGirl She even has her hair covering her face]].
**It also has its references on ''Film/{{JuOn}}'' and its American remake, ''Film/TheGrudge'':
***The fact the group enters a haunted house and is stalked by a vengeful spirit, [[EvenEvilHasStandards minus the fact the spirit only goes for those who tormented her]].
***Dinda's encounter with the ghost in the train resembles a mix of the elevator scene and the phone booth scene in ''The Grudge 2''.
***Armen sees a bloody hand emerge from the toilet, similar to the scene where Toshio's hand emerged from the sink.
***Onil receives a strange call from an unknown caller, only to receive an eerie whisper on the other end. In ''The Grudge'' and its sequel, characters pick up phones only to hear Kayako's iconic death rattle. Additionally, this is similar to "Film/OneMissedCall''.
* ShownTheirWork: Despite Lawang Sewu's depiction as inaccurate in the film, there are some props when it comes to the kuntilanak myth.
**Lawang Sewu is also alleged to be haunted not only by a kuntilanak but also the ghost of a colonial Dutchwoman and prisoners killed by the Japanese during World War II. The film portrays these allegations.
**Ratih is revealed to be pregnant by Armen's hand, which causes her to be humiliated leading to her suicide. In Southeast Asian folkore, the kuntilanak is produced a spirit of woman who died while pregnant.
**Plumeria flowers are associated with the kuntilanak.
* StringyHairedGhostGirl: A non-Japanese example since kuntilanaks/pontianaks often have their hair covering their face as per the myth.
* SpookySeance: Mbah Darmo conducts one with Chinese incense and a red candle while the group carries mirrors while blindfolded to reveal the identity of the kuntilanak. [[spoiler: Unfortunately, this gets her killed]].
* TearsOfFear: All characters except Diska when they encounter the kuntilanak.
* ThisExplainsSoMuch: Diska loots at a photo of well and is able to make a connection with her visions and dreams of a woman in white about jump off.
* VengefulGhost: The kuntilanak, as per Indonesian-Malaysianfolkore.folklore.
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* ShoutOut:
**The gang splits up in a haunted house, [[Franchise/{{ScoobyDoo}} reminiscent of another iconic cartoon]].
**The story involves a [[Literature/{{TheRing}}haunted well with a vengeful spirit residing inside it]]. [[StringyHairedGhostGirl She even has her hair covering her face]].
**It also has its references on ''Film/{{JuOn}}'' and its American remake, ''Film/TheGrudge'':
***The fact the group enters a haunted house and is stalked by a vengeful spirit, [[EvenEvilHasStandards minus the fact the spirit only goes for those who tormented her]].
***Dinda's encounter with the ghost in the train resembles a mix of the elevator scene and the phone booth scene in ''The Grudge 2''.
***Armen sees a bloody hand emerge from the toilet, similar to the scene where Toshio's hand emerged from the sink.
***Onil receives a strange call from an unknown caller, only to receive an eerie whisper on the other end. In ''The Grudge'' and its sequel, characters pick up phones only to hear Kayako's iconic death rattle. Additionally, this is similar to "Film/OneMissedCall''.
* ShownTheirWork: Despite Lawang Sewu's depiction as inaccurate in the film, there are some props when it comes to the kuntilanak myth.
**Lawang Sewu is also alleged to be haunted not only by a kuntilanak but also the ghost of a colonial Dutchwoman and prisoners killed by the Japanese during World War II. The film portrays these allegations.
**Ratih is revealed to be pregnant by Armen's hand, which causes her to be humiliated leading to her suicide. In Southeast Asian folkore, the kuntilanak is produced a spirit of woman who died while pregnant.
**Plumeria flowers are associated with the kuntilanak.
* StringyHairedGhostGirl: A non-Japanese example since kuntilanaks/pontianaks often have their hair covering their face as per the myth.
* SpookySeance: Mbah Darmo conducts one with Chinese incense and a red candle while the group carries mirrors while blindfolded to reveal the identity of the kuntilanak. [[spoiler: Unfortunately, this gets her killed]].
* TearsOfFear: All characters except Diska when they encounter the kuntilanak.
* ThisExplainsSoMuch: Diska loots at a photo of well and is able to make a connection with her visions and dreams of a woman in white about jump off.
* VengefulGhost: The kuntilanak, as per Indonesian-Malaysian
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* WhatHappenedToMouse: Onil is simply not mentioned after escaping a near-death experience with the ghost. It is unknown if he survives the whole ordeal.
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* WhatHappenedToMouse: WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Onil is simply not mentioned after escaping a near-death experience with the ghost. It His [[SavedByCanon survival is unknown if he survives confirmed]] as the whole ordeal.last shot shows the four AssholeVictims the kuntilanak killed in the well, which did not include him.
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* BigBoosHaunt
* BigGood
* BitchInSheepsClothing
* BittersweetEnding
* AbusiveParents
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* AintTooProudToBeg
AintTooProudToBeg: Armen begs to the Kuntilanak/[[spoiler:Ratih]] to show some mercy as she closes in for the kill. Onil was seen doing the same thing not too long after.
*AbusiveParents
AbusiveParents: Ratih's father throws her out of their home once her naked pics were leaked online and printed right to their doorstep.
*AffectionateNickname
AffectionateNickname: Diska is known "Dis" while Armen is simply known as "Men" for short.
*ArtisticLicenseEngineering
ArtisticLicenseEngineering: Lawang Sewu is depicted as a centuries-old abandoned house with vines growing over it. The real-life Lawang Sewu is a tourist attraction and is now where as derelict as seen in the film.
*AssholeVictim
AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:Armen, Yugo, Dinda, Naya, Cika, and Onil]].
*BecauseYouWereNiceToMe
BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: YMMV on this but it is heavily implied that Ratih spared Diska because the latter tried to console her after the bullying incident. Sadly, Diska never knew about it because her asshole friends called her over before Ratin could inform her of the incident.
*BigBoosHaunt
BigBoosHaunt: Lawang Sewu, which is haunted by the ghost of Dutch Woman, a headless man who was beheaded by the Japanese during World War II, the titular Kuntilanak, and several others spirits.
*BigGood
BigGood: Diska
*BitchInSheepsClothing
BitchInSheepsClothing: Armen. His tough guy facade ends once he goes face to face [[spoiler:with his undead ex-girlfriend.]]
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CassandraTruth: Mbah Darmo, Diska's grandmother, warns Diska and friends not to do the following around Lawang Sewu: (1) Do not shout inside the building, (2) Do not urinate around the grounds, and (3) Do not enter if one is in her period. Naturally, all but Diska violate these but she was forced to be dragged along her friend's mistake because Cika went missing.
*DemonicPossession
DemonicPossession: Dinda is possessed by the ghost of Noni van Hallen, a Dutchwoman, who warns them to leave Lawang Sewu.
*DirtyCowardDirtyCoward: Armen
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* EvenEvilHasStandards
EvenEvilHasStandards: Ratih as the kuntilanak does not seem to harm or even go after Diska, [[BecauseYouWereNiceToMe probably because Diska tried to help her]].
*EyeScream
EyeScream: After the kuntilanak removes one eye for each AssholeVictim she kills, as revenge for destroying her glasses during the infamous bullying incident.
*{{Foreshadowing}}
{{Foreshadowing}}: Several of them
**Diska has dreams of being in a basement with wall complete with the kuntilanak rising from it.
**Once Diska and her friends arrive in her grandmother's house in Semarang, she gets somehow attracted to a photo of Lawang Sewu.
*ForWantOfANail
ForWantOfANail: Had Diska probably stayed a few more seconds to listen to a weeping Ratih, the whole Lawang Sewu could have been prevented. Granted, Diska could not be blamed as she was unaware that her friends would do such a despicable act and due to the fact Diska was stopped by Naya and Cika.
*FreezeFrameBonusFreezeFrameBonus: Lawang Sewu has eerily-lit red lanterns adorning the entire building. Armen sees one in the mirror in Diska's house and is unsurprisingly terrified.
**In one scene, we see a brief establishing shot of Diska's grandmother's house with a Plumeria tree blooming with flowers. The scent of Plumeria flowers are often associated with a kuntilanak/pontianak in Indonesian-Malaysian folkore.
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**Once Diska and her friends arrive in her grandmother's house in Semarang, she gets somehow attracted to a photo of Lawang Sewu.
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**In one scene, we see a brief establishing shot of Diska's grandmother's house with a Plumeria tree blooming with flowers. The scent of Plumeria flowers are often associated with a kuntilanak/pontianak in Indonesian-Malaysian folkore.
* HateSink: All of Diska's friend but special mention goes to Cika, Naya, and Armen. Especially Armen.
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* Hypocrite{{Hypocrite}}: Cika and Naya berate Ratih for being a provincial girl schooling in Jakarta. It gets even worse when viewers note that Ratih is even more physically attractive and polite than those two bullies.
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* LightIsNotGood
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* KarmaHoudini
KarmaHoudini: Onil (assuming he lives) and Yugo escape the kuntilanak's wrath but not entirely scott-free, as the experience has left them traumatized.
*LaserGuidedKarma
LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler:Ratih the kuntilanak delivers justice to Cika, Naya, Dinda, and Armen]].
*LetsSplitUpGang
LetsSplitUpGang: The group spilts up inside Lawang Sewu while looking for Cika.
*LightIsNotGood
LightIsNotGood: Keep track of the eerily-let red lanterns.
*NeverFoundTheBodyNeverFoundTheBody: The fate of kuntilanak's victims.
**{{Averted}} for the first. [[spoiler:The group did find Cika's body (sans missing one of her eyeball) but are unable to retrieve it as the ghosts begin to terrify them. The next morning, the police state to the group they could not find Cika's body]].
**[[spoiler:One of the girls who is killed in the midnight train ride back to Jakarta by the kuntilanak leaves no trace behind except for streaks of blood, which baffles the authorities]].
**[[spoiler:Armen's body also disappears once the kuntilanak kills him outside a clothes line]].
**[[spoiler:The end reveals that the kuntilanak dragged all the bodies with her back to the well]].
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**{{Averted}} for the first. [[spoiler:The group did find Cika's body (sans missing one of her eyeball) but are unable to retrieve it as the ghosts begin to terrify them. The next morning, the police state to the group they could not find Cika's body]].
**[[spoiler:One of the girls who is killed in the midnight train ride back to Jakarta by the kuntilanak leaves no trace behind except for streaks of blood, which baffles the authorities]].
**[[spoiler:Armen's body also disappears once the kuntilanak kills him outside a clothes line]].
**[[spoiler:The end reveals that the kuntilanak dragged all the bodies with her back to the well]].
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* PoliceAreUselessNotSoStoic: Armen appears to be the tough guy of the group. Once he comes face-to-face with the vengeful spirit, all of this is thrown out of the window.
* PoliceAreUseless: The police could not find the bodies of the missing friend. Justified as the ghost made the bodies disappear.
* PoliceAreUseless: The police could not find the bodies of the missing friend. Justified as the ghost made the bodies disappear.
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VengefulGhost: The kuntilanak, as per Indonesian-Malaysian folkore.
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WalkingSpoiler: [[spoiler:Armen and Ratih]].
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* WildTeenParty: The group parties in a nightclub in Semarang to celebrate them graduating from high school.
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'''''Lawang Sewu: Dendam Kuntilanak''''' (English:'''''Lawang Sewu: Kuntilanak's Vengeance''''') is a 2007 Indonesian Horror film directed by Arie Azis. The film tells about [[DwindlingParty a group of seven teenagers]] from Jakarta is in Semarang to celebrate their high school graduation. Along the road home after [[WildTeenParty partying]], they stopped by [[HauntedHouse Lawang Sewu]], a supposedly haunted building in Semarang, [[UrineTrouble to relieve themselves]]. One of the girls went inside the building to avoid the boys and [[OhCrap didn't come back]]. When they start to find their missing friend, the night turns into a nightmare for other six, who find themselves haunted and terrorized by a Kuntilanak.
!!'''''Lawang Sewu: Dendam Kuntilanak''''' provides the following tropes:
* AintTooProudToBeg
* AbusiveParents
* AffectionateNickname
* ArtisticLicenseEngineering
* AssholeVictim
* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe
* BigBoosHaunt
* BigGood
* BitchInSheepsClothing
* BittersweetEnding
* BullyMagnet
* CandlelitRitual
* CassandraTruth
* DemonicPossession
* DirtyCoward
* DotingGrandparent
* DrivenToSuicide
* DwindlingParty
* EtherealWhiteDress
* EvenEvilHasStandards
* EyeScream
* {{Foreshadowing}}
* ForWantOfANail
* FreezeFrameBonus
* GhostTrain
* HopeSpot
* Hypocrite
* {{Jerkass}}
* KarmaHoudini
* LaserGuidedKarma
* LetsSplitUpGang
* LightIsNotGood
* NeverFoundTheBody
* [[NiceGuy Nice Girl]]
* PoliceAreUseless
* RealityWarper
* RootingForTheEmpire
* ShoutOut
* SpookySeance
* VengefulGhost
* WhatAnIdiot
* WildTeenParty
!!'''''Lawang Sewu: Dendam Kuntilanak''''' provides the following tropes:
* AintTooProudToBeg
* AbusiveParents
* AffectionateNickname
* ArtisticLicenseEngineering
* AssholeVictim
* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe
* BigBoosHaunt
* BigGood
* BitchInSheepsClothing
* BittersweetEnding
* BullyMagnet
* CandlelitRitual
* CassandraTruth
* DemonicPossession
* DirtyCoward
* DotingGrandparent
* DrivenToSuicide
* DwindlingParty
* EtherealWhiteDress
* EvenEvilHasStandards
* EyeScream
* {{Foreshadowing}}
* ForWantOfANail
* FreezeFrameBonus
* GhostTrain
* HopeSpot
* Hypocrite
* {{Jerkass}}
* KarmaHoudini
* LaserGuidedKarma
* LetsSplitUpGang
* LightIsNotGood
* NeverFoundTheBody
* [[NiceGuy Nice Girl]]
* PoliceAreUseless
* RealityWarper
* RootingForTheEmpire
* ShoutOut
* SpookySeance
* VengefulGhost
* WhatAnIdiot
* WildTeenParty
