Satan's Slaves 2: Communion

According to my trakt history, I saw Satan's Slaves (1) about five years before this one but couldn't remember any of it. As such, many question marks popped up over my head watching this prequel.
As the horror elements didn't really work for me, perhaps it would have been a better experience if I could have recalled the events of the first film...

This movie is very long, almost 2 hours! Unfortunately, all of that time is not well spent. The film feels overlong, confusing and repetitious.

It was an OK sequel. A bit predictable at times and relied a bit too much on a dark atmosphere with jump scares.

A real disappointment as a sequel to the first film. This is an Indonesian occult film which is full of interesting ideas that unfocused narrative and bad pacing unfortunately suffocates. They set up a suffocating atmosphere of unease, building up tension and leading to believe that something horrible and incredible is about to happen. Instead, it's just another unnecessarily long sequel, filled with cheap scares and rather typical horror tropes throughout. Lingering shots are HEAVILY overused to the point that it annoyed me. Not to mention its pretty weak attempts at comedy. At times, the film leans way too much towards the comedy and it rarely sells. If you're into polished, overlong, jumpscary horror, you'll probably like this one. Otherwise, don't bother.