Agak Laen (2024) on Netflix
Oki joins Boris, Bene and Jegel at a night market haunted house in Rawa Senggol. When a scare stops a visitor's heart, the four hide the body inside the attraction.
- Netflix3.8/5
- IMDb7.6/103,967 votes
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Plot summary
Oki has just left prison after serving time for driving while on drugs and striking a goat, and he takes a job at the fun fair in Rawa Senggol, West Java. Dropped from the Dunk Tank after he hits a customer, he joins friends Boris, Bene and Jegel in their haunted house. All four need money: medicine and a grave for Oki's dying mother, Boris's army entry, Bene's wedding to Naomi, Jegel's gambling debts. The attraction scares nobody until Oki jumps out at a couple. At the reopening, Basuki suffers a fatal heart attack during the jumpscares.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Agak Laen (2024)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- The film grew out of the YouTube podcast Agak Laen, hosted by Boris Bokir, Indra Jegel, Oki Rengga and Bene Dion, who persuaded Ernest Prakasa during one podcast episode to adapt it, promising him one million viewers; he agreed.
- Within 24 days of its release Agak Laen passed 7 million viewers and became Indonesia's highest-grossing comedy film, overtaking Warkop DKI Reborn: Jangkrik Boss! Part 1, which had drawn 6,858,616 viewers.
- With a night market as the film's main setting, the production built the set from scratch on an open field in Depok, West Java, and shot from afternoon until morning to suit that backdrop, over 18 days in September 2023.
- Agak Laen is regarded as the first feature-length film adapted from a podcast originally based on an audio conversation; it was Imajinari's third production, after Missing Home and Falling in Love Like in Movies.
- Agak Laen opened in 13 cinemas across the United States on 22 March 2024, making it the first Indonesian film released in the United States that year, after distributor Antenna Entertainment widened its Southeast Asian network.
- In recognition of its 9,125,188 viewers after 98 days in cinemas, Agak Laen received a special award for "Comedy Film with the Highest Audience Attendance" at the 2024 Anugerah Komedi Indonesia.
