Getting evicted by loan sharks is already a fairly miserable reason to move house, but doing it to a remote plantation property where something supernatural apparently wants to send the entire family permanently into the afterlife is considerably worse.
That is the setup for Mencadin 2: Tamu Mayit, an Indonesian horror film directed and written by Bram Ferino where the film centres on Siti’s family, who are forced out of their home because of loan sharks and move into Farida’s house in the middle of a plantation, but, unfortunately, the new property comes with its own unwanted resident – a much darker presence that intends to claim the family rather than merely scare them.
The film is a relatively lean 84-minute horror movie, produced by Afici Entertainment, and the available Indonesian listings identify it as an Indonesian-language production, where the film’s Indonesian synopsis describes the entity waiting for them as something more sinister and evil than the loan sharks who caused their original problem, with the implication that this new threat isn’t interested in frightening them out of the house, it wants to take them to the other side.
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Bram Ferino Has Been Busy With Indonesian Horror
Bram Ferino directs and writes Mencadin 2, with Afik Hariyadi credited as producer, and the film was made by Afici Entertainment – Ferino has been particularly prolific in Indonesian genre cinema, where his credits include Kampung Keramat, a 2024 horror film, as well as later projects including Summa: Dendam Perempuan Sinting, Awas Kepunan: Kelak Celako and Pelet Biduan Jalang.
The main cast includes Trisna Anggraini, Dian Fitra Sandi, Inung Hartati, Bagus Aidil, Melanie, Juni Irsandi and Robi Maulana, with Trisna Anggraini being one of the film’s principal performers and has also appeared in other Bram Ferino projects, including Diwe: Hutan Larangan and Summa: Dendam Perempuan Sinting.
Inung Hartati is another recurring name in this corner of Indonesian horror, with credits including Mencadin: Dendam Pocong, Awas Kepunan: Kelak Celako, Tumbal Birahi Dukun Jahanam and Pelet Biduan Jalang, while behind the camera, Anta Badrun handled cinematography, Raditya Zainan worked on art direction, Dhea Gusvita handled makeup and hair, and Tasya D. Hartanty was the costume designer, with Edonesia is credited for sound.
An 84-Minute Horror Movie Isn’t Wasting Much Time
At 84 minutes, Mencadin 2 is considerably shorter than a lot of modern theatrical horror releases, which can work in its favour, so I would hope the film doesn’t drag too much, spending half an hour establishing a family dynamic that ultimately doesn’t matter – the premise can get moving, the supernatural threat can arrive and the film can get on with making the house unpleasant.
The danger, obviously, is that a short runtime can also mean the mythology gets rushed, and if the entity has a complicated history, an elaborate explanation or a dozen rules governing what it can and can’t do, 84 minutes doesn’t leave much room for messing around.
Personally, I’d rather have the film leave a few things unexplained than stop every ten minutes to deliver a PowerPoint presentation about the ghost, though.
But the title’s Tamu Mayit – roughly pointing toward a dead guest/corpse guest – tells you where the film is ultimately heading, while the plantation setting gives it the isolation needed to make the premise work, and there’s a nice little horror equation underneath all of it:
Lose your home → move somewhere remote → discover the new home is haunted → discover the haunting wants you dead.
Not exactly the property market advice anyone was asking for.
The film’s theatrical release in Indonesia came on January 17, 2026.
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