Three years after the events of the first film, the Suwono family have relocated to an apartment in North Jakarta. However, it becomes clear that they will not be able to escape the curse that haunts them, especially after a freak accident claims the lives of dozens of the apartment's dwellers and leaves them to spend an entire night with their corpses scattered about. Meanwhile, Budiman, the Suwono's family friend, races to the apartment before something even worse will happen to them.
Fun fact: it is the first Southeast Asian film to be screened in IMAX. With 6.3 million admissions, it also currently holds the record as the third highest-grossing Indonesian film of all time.
Tropes
- The '80s: The film is mostly set in 1984, though there is a brief flashback to 1955.
- Abusive Parents:
- Ari's father hits him repeatedly, and emotionally abuses his wife because she is disabled. Ari doesn't mourn him much after he dies during the elevator accident.
- Wisnu says that his deceased father was abusive to him and his mother, and, like Ari, he was not sorry to see him die.
- Attention Deficit... Oh, Shiny!: Wina and her four playmates are distracted by coins that fell from a woman's purse into the bottom of the elevator shaft, so when the doors open without the car being there, they frantically try to pick them up. Upon noticing the car crashing down, Wina manages to escape, but her friends are not so lucky.
- Basement-Dweller: Dino is a 20-something grown man who still lives with his mother, and does not seem to have a job.
- Big Blackout: The storm causes a short circuit that triggers a blackout in the entire apartment.
- Bittersweet Ending: Bahri is dead, and while the Suwono children manage to escape the apartment unharmed, it is made pretty clear that the Satanists still have plans in store for them.
- Bloodier and Gorier: The film is much gorier than the predecessor, with a higher body count and a more visceral way of killing its victims.
- Blood-Splattered Innocents: The elevator crash happens in front of Wina, who screams in horror as she gets splattered by the blood of the victims.
- Brick Joke: When Toni defends Tari from being harassed by Dino, the latter demands to know Toni's name, and Tari (not knowing his name at this point) claims it's "Udin". Later, when Toni bumps into Dino during the blackout, the latter addresses him as Udin.
- The Cavalry Arrives Late: Budiman arrives too late to save Bahri, though he manages to save Rini, Toni, Bondi, Wisnu, Ari, and Darto. He still considers it a failure, however.
- Death by Falling Over: The fate of the elevator crash victims, as well as Wina.
- Driven to Suicide:
- Budiman's friend Heru, who shows him the discovery of the 1955 Satanists' ritual, has died by suicide as of 1984.
- Ari's mother commits suicide shortly after her husband dies in the elevator accident. Hers seems to be one death unconnected to the Satanists' plot.
- Elevator Failure: The catalyst of the haunting is a freak accident involving the apartment's faulty elevator, which crashes down, killing all of its occupants save Bahri, as well as four kids who foolishly try to pick up fallen coins at the bottom shaft. Later, when Wina is haunted by the ghosts, she is somehow able to enter the elevator shaft even though there is no car inside. Except not. She is flying in the air, until she realizes she is not, and she subsequently falls down to her death.
- Enfant Terrible: Ian has been fully turned to the Satanist side, and leads them in their ritual to sacrifice his family to Raminom.
- Fingore: Bahri cut the fingers of the people he killed and collected them inside the briefcase he carries whenever he goes to work.
- Foreshadowing: In the opening, Budiman comments that the masked driver who takes him to the scene of the 1955 Satanists' ritual seems familiar to him. The driver is Bahri, son of Budiman's friend, Rahma. He becomes involved with the Satanists upon the discovery of the 1955 ritual, leading him to make a deal to give birth to his children and make Mawarni famous.
- Government Conspiracy: Downplayed. Bahri uses his job as a Petrus killer
to gain the souls needed to free him from the contract with the Satanists. While the murders themselves are heinous enough, the government does not know about what he intends to do with the corpses. - Half the Man He Used to Be: When Tari falls down the dumpster, the walls crush her until she is split in half.
- Horrible Housing: The apartment where the Suwono family moved into is decrepit, with partly-unfinished exteriors and a faulty elevator. It is also located in an area that is prone to flooding. And then it is revealed that the apartment was actually built on top of a cemetery...
- Imperiled in Pregnancy: One of the victims of the elevator crash is a heavily pregnant woman. The woman and her unborn baby later haunt Tari, causing her to fall and split her body in half.
- Impromptu Tracheotomy: Dino is shocked upon meeting Raminom, falls back, and ends up getting his neck stabbed by a garden rake.
- Indian Burial Ground: The apartment's plot was previously occupied by a cemetery, which was cleared to make way for its construction.
- Killed Offscreen: Ustaz Mahmud is murdered offscreen, although we do see his demonic spirit.
- Lightning Reveal: Most of the film is set during a storm. Naturally, a lot of the scares are preceded by lightning strikes illuminating them.
- Lotus-Eater Machine: During Raminom's ritual, Rini is forced to eat parsley leaves, which entrance her into a dream in which she receives a scholarship to a foreign university, but in return, she has to forget her family forever. She refuses and manages to return back to reality.
- Missing Floor: The apartment is ostensibly only fourteen stories high, but Bondi, Ari, and Darto find photos which prove that there is an inaccessible 15th floor. It is the place used by the Satanists to perform the ritual to appease Raminom.
- Night of the Living Mooks: Reanimated corpses are once again used by the Satanists, albeit this time in the form of pocong, since they have just died and are clothed in white funeral shroud.
- Outliving One's Offspring: Dino's offscreen mother outlives her son.
- Parental Abandonment:
- Wisnu already lost his father before the film began, only to lose his mother as well during the elevator accident.
- Ari loses both of his parents over the course of the film. His father is one of the casualties of the elevator crash, while his mother commits suicide afterwards.
- The Suwono children are also orphaned by the end, with the death of Bahri.
- Rain, Rain, Go Away: After the elevator crash, a huge thunderstorm floods the entire first floor with electrified water, trapping the remaining apartment dwellers in place.
- Really 700 Years Old: The film closes with a photo of Darminah and Batara during the 1955 Bandung Conference, looking just like they do in the present.
- Regularly Scheduled Evil: Bondi, Ari, and Darto find photos that depict the apartment throughout the years, and realize that they were all taken on 17 April. They deduce that since today is 16 April, something bad is going to happen at midnight.
- Resignations Not Accepted: Bahri tried to get out of the deal with the Satanists, but he had to kill 1000 souls. And even this is not enough, since they murder him anyway.
- The Reveal:
- The ghostly presence who haunts the Suwono children since the first film is not Mawarni herself, but a visage used by Raminom, the demon worshipped by the Satanists.
- Darminah and Batara are the owners of the unit next to Dino's. They have been living there since the apartment opened, explaining why they own photos of the apartment when it was still new.
- Running Gag: Toni being asked to help others, and him being unable to decline. He does mention earlier that he has the natural inclination to help others.
- Sequel Hook: Darminah and Batara return in the ending, and this time, it is clear that they have something to do with the Satanists' plot towards the Suwono family.
- Snowy Screen of Death: As this is the 1980s, the public broadcaster TVRI turns to static after airing the last program of the day. That is, until Raminom's image briefly flashes in the screen.
- Sole Survivor:
- Bahri is the sole survivor of the elevator crash. This is because the Satanists still need him to complete the final part of their ritual.
- By the end of the film, Ari is also the sole survivor of his family.
- Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome: In the climax of the film, Bahri is killed by having his body pulled by horses from four separate directions.
- What, Exactly, Is His Job?: Bahri never tells his children what he does for a living. He actually works as a Petrus shooter, so he can collect souls to appease the Satanists.
- White Shirt of Death: The reanimated corpses wear white funeral shrouds, while Raminom wears a white gown.
