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Dara
	Dara
Directed by	The Mo Brothers
Written by	The Mo Brothers
Produced by	The Mo Brothers
Starring	Shareefa Daanish; Mike Lucock
Cinematography	Roni Arnold
Edited by	Herman Panca
Music by	Fajar Yuskemal; Ulung Tanoto
Distributed by	Merah Production
Release date	19 October 2007 (Screamfest Horror Film Festival);
Running time	22 Minutes
Country	Indonesia
Language	Indonesian
Budget	Rp 220 million

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Dara is a 2007 Indonesian slasher short film written and directed by Kimo Stamboel and Timo Tjahjanto as The Mo Brothers. The film gave Stamboel and Tjahjanto the necessary exposure to direct their first feature film Macabre which is based on and features the principal cast and characters of Dara.^[1]

Plot

The film begins at restaurant which is owned by a beautiful and perfect woman named Dara. That night, Dara invites a man named Adjie to dine with her on the next night in her house. Then, after black fades, Adjie is shown again, bounded by chains in a blood-splattered room. He tries to break free, but Dara, comes to the room and test the quality of Adjie, as her test, she bites Adjie's stomach. Attempting to kill Adjie, Dara starts to slash him off with her chainsaw. Suddenly, a bell rings and, Dara, with her chainsaw broken, leaves the room and opens the door.

It was a bald-headed man named Eko, wanting to meet Dara. Eko is welcomed to the dinner table to eat, while Dara leaves him for a second, goes to a room and dumps Eko's flower bouquet onto a bed in there. She crosses Eko's name in the next day's date, and writes Adjie's name on the current date. From this activity, we know that Dara is a cannibal who invites men secretly and kills them when they are in her house. And Dara schedules her victims each night, for one reason: to have fresh meat every day. And the men who come to her house now, will be slashed like Dara's past victims.

At dinner, after Dara shuts Adjie's mouth and turns on classical music loudly, Dara is visited by a quiet, fat man named Rama who joins Dara and Eko for dinner. The conversation in there is dominated by Eko who tells Rama about exercising for a six pack. While they are at the dinner table, Adjie manages to break the chain and set himself free from the room. Realizing that Adjie is loose, Dara takes her crossbow (placed secretly under the dinner table) and shoots Eko's chest, then slits his throat with a machete. Then, she slashes Rama's shoulder and when Rama crawls to the front door, he is decapitated by Dara with the same machete as a slash on his shoulder.

Adjie returns to the gory room and hides there from Dara. Dara, who finds Adjie, gets stabbed in the hand by Adjie. Then Adjie quickly runs to front door, opens it, and goes into his car. When he wants to close his car door, Dara with her chainsaw turned on breaks it and slaughters Adjie with it, leaving no survivor that night.

The scene changes to Dara's restaurant, where she takes some meat from her refrigerator, and it is revealed that the meat used for her meals, are human meat. Then the camera pans through the restaurant as everybody looks appreciatively at the food cooked by Dara herself. Dara who still won over the men' fights yet, smiles and makes a grimace to camera.

Cast

Shareefa Daanish as Dara
Mike Lucock as Adjie
Dendy Subangil as Eko
Ruli Lubis as Rama

Release

The film premiered at the Screamfest Horror Film Festival on October 19, 2007. It was subsequently featured in the 2008 anthology horror film Takut: Faces of Fear.

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Category	Work	Result
2007	Freak Show Horror Film Festival	Audience Choice Award	Dara	Won
2007	New York City Horror Film Festival	Audience Award	Dara	Won

Feature film adaptation

A feature film adaptation of Dara was released in 2009 titled Macabre (also known as Rumah Dara) with both Tjahjanto and Stamboel directing as The Mo Brothers. The film stars Shareefa Daanish as the titular character as well as the rest of the short film's cast with character adjustment and features several new performers, including Julie Estelle, Sigi Wimala, Arifin Putra, and Imelda Therinne.

References

^ Media, Kompas Cyber (23 April 2020). "Cerita The Mo Brothers Seputar Film Garapannya, dari Rumah Dara sampai The Night Comes for Us Halaman all". KOMPAS.com (in Indonesian). Retrieved 2021-02-07.

External links

Dara at IMDb

[1] Media, Kompas Cyber (23 April 2020). "Cerita The Mo Brothers Seputar Film Garapannya, dari Rumah Dara sampai The Night Comes for Us Halaman all". KOMPAS.com (in Indonesian). Retrieved 2021-02-07.

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+'''''Dara''''' is a 2007 Indonesian [[slasher film|slasher]] [[short film]] written and directed by [[Kimo Stamboel]] and [[Timo Tjahjanto]] as [[The Mo Brothers]]. The film gave Stamboel and Tjahjanto the necessary exposure to direct their first feature film [[Macabre (2009 film)|''Macabre'']] which is based on and features the principal cast and characters of ''Dara''.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Media|first=Kompas Cyber|title=Cerita The Mo Brothers Seputar Film Garapannya, dari Rumah Dara sampai The Night Comes for Us Halaman all|url=https://www.kompas.com/hype/read/2020/04/23/122805366/cerita-the-mo-brothers-seputar-film-garapannya-dari-rumah-dara-sampai-the|access-date=2021-02-07|website=KOMPAS.com|date=23 April 2020 |language=id}}</ref>
-'''''Dara''''' is an Indonesian [[slasher film|slasher]]/[[black comedy]] [[short film]]. Written and directed by [[Kimo Stamboel]] and [[Timo Tjahjanto]], this film was well-reviewed by movie critics when shown at a number of film festivals. The film was released with other short [[horror film|horror]] films in a horror compilation, ''[[Takut: Faces of Fear]]'' in 2009.<ref>http://cetak.kompas.com/read/xml/2008/11/16/02094019/mencari.sumber.baru.rasa.takut</ref> A longer version of this film, ''[[Rumah Dara]]'' (also known as ''Macabre'' in English), by the same directors, was released in 2009 (In Indonesia released widely on 2010. The film stars [[Shareefa Daanish]] in the title role of Dara. The actors, [[Mike Muliadro|Mike Lucock]], [[Dendy Subangil]], and [[Ruli Lubis]] who starred this film, reprise their appearance in ''[[Rumah Dara]]'' with different character, such as, actor Ruli Lubis who in this film acts as victim, but in Rumah Dara he acts as villain.
 ==Plot==
-Film begins at restaurant which is owned by a beautiful and perfect woman named Dara. That night, Dara invites a man named Adjie to dine with her on the next night in her house. Then, after black fades, Adjie is shown again, bounded by chains in a blood-splattered room. He tries to break free, but Dara, comes to the room and test the quality of Adjie, as her test, she bites Adjie's [[stomach]]. Attempting to kill Adjie, Dara starts to slash him off with her chainsaw. Suddenly, a bell rings and, Dara, with her chainsaw broken, leaves the room and opens the door.
+The film begins at restaurant which is owned by a beautiful and perfect woman named Dara. That night, Dara invites a man named Adjie to dine with her on the next night in her house. Then, after black fades, Adjie is shown again, bounded by chains in a blood-splattered room. He tries to break free, but Dara, comes to the room and test the quality of Adjie, as her test, she bites Adjie's stomach. Attempting to kill Adjie, Dara starts to slash him off with her chainsaw. Suddenly, a bell rings and, Dara, with her chainsaw broken, leaves the room and opens the door.
-It was a bald-headed man named Eko, wanting to meet Dara. Eko is welcomed to the dinner table to eat, while Dara leaves him for a second, goes to a room and dumps Eko's flower bouquet onto a bed in there. She crosses Eko's name in the next day's date, and writes Adjie's name on the current date. From this activity, we know that Dara is a [[cannibal]] who invites men secretly and kills them when they are in her house. And Dara schedules her victims each night, for one reason: to have fresh meat everyday. And the men who come to her house now, will be slashed like Dara's past victims.
+It was a bald-headed man named Eko, wanting to meet Dara. Eko is welcomed to the dinner table to eat, while Dara leaves him for a second, goes to a room and dumps Eko's flower bouquet onto a bed in there. She crosses Eko's name in the next day's date, and writes Adjie's name on the current date. From this activity, we know that Dara is a cannibal who invites men secretly and kills them when they are in her house. And Dara schedules her victims each night, for one reason: to have fresh meat every day. And the men who come to her house now, will be slashed like Dara's past victims.
-At dinner, after Dara shuts Adjie's mouth and turns on classical music loudly, Dara is visited by a quiet, fat man named Rama who joins Dara and Eko for dinner. The conversation in there is dominated by Eko who tells Rama about exercising for a [[Rectus abdominis muscle|sixpack]]. While they are at the dinner table, Adjie manages to break the chain and set himself free from the room. Realizing that Adjie is loose, Dara takes her [[crossbow]] (placed secretly under the dinner table) and shoots Eko's chest, then slits his throat with a [[machete]]. Then, she slashes Rama's shoulder and when Rama crawls to the front door, he is [[decapitated]] by Dara with the same machete as a slash on his shoulder.
+At dinner, after Dara shuts Adjie's mouth and turns on classical music loudly, Dara is visited by a quiet, fat man named Rama who joins Dara and Eko for dinner. The conversation in there is dominated by Eko who tells Rama about exercising for a six pack. While they are at the dinner table, Adjie manages to break the chain and set himself free from the room. Realizing that Adjie is loose, Dara takes her crossbow (placed secretly under the dinner table) and shoots Eko's chest, then slits his throat with a machete. Then, she slashes Rama's shoulder and when Rama crawls to the front door, he is decapitated by Dara with the same machete as a slash on his shoulder.
 Adjie returns to the gory room and hides there from Dara. Dara, who finds Adjie, gets stabbed in the hand by Adjie. Then Adjie quickly runs to front door, opens it, and goes into his car. When he wants to close his car door, Dara with her chainsaw turned on breaks it and slaughters Adjie with it, leaving no survivor that night.
-The scene changes to Dara's restaurant, where she takes some [[meat]] from her [[refrigerator]], and it is revealed that the meat used for her meals, are human meat. Then the camera pans through the restaurant as everybody looks appreciatively at the food cooked by Dara herself. Dara who still won over the men' fights yet, smiles and makes a grimace to camera.
+The scene changes to Dara's restaurant, where she takes some meat from her refrigerator, and it is revealed that the meat used for her meals, are human meat. Then the camera pans through the restaurant as everybody looks appreciatively at the food cooked by Dara herself. Dara who still won over the men' fights yet, smiles and makes a grimace to camera.
 ==Cast==
-* [[Shareefa Daanish]] – Dara
+* [[Shareefa Daanish]] as Dara
-* [[Mike Muliadro|Mike Lucock]] – Adjie
+* Mike Lucock as Adjie
-* [[Dendy Subangil]] – Eko
+* Dendy Subangil as Eko
-* [[Ruli Lubis]] – Rama
+* Ruli Lubis as Rama
+== Release ==
+The film premiered at the [[Screamfest Horror Film Festival]] on October 19, 2007. It was subsequently featured in the 2008 anthology horror film ''Takut: Faces of Fear''.
+== Awards and nominations ==
+{| class="wikitable sortable"
+!Year
+!Award
+!Category
+!Work
+!Result
+|-
+! rowspan="2" |2007
+|Freak Show Horror Film Festival
+|Audience Choice Award
+| rowspan="2" |''[[Dara (short film)|Dara]]''
+|{{won}}
+|-
+|[[New York City Horror Film Festival]]
+|Audience Award
+|{{won}}
+|}
+== Feature film adaptation ==
+A feature film adaptation of ''Dara'' was released in 2009 titled ''[[Macabre (2009 film)|Macabre]]'' (also known as ''Rumah Dara'') with both Tjahjanto and Stamboel directing as The Mo Brothers. The film stars Shareefa Daanish as the titular character as well as the rest of the short film's cast with character adjustment and features several new performers, including [[Julie Estelle]], [[Sigi Wimala]], [[Arifin Putra]], and [[Imelda Therinne]].
 ==References==
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+{{Authority control}}
-[[Category:Indonesian films]]
 [[Category:2007 films]]
 [[Category:Indonesian short films]]
-[[Category:2000s short films]]
+[[Category:2007 short films]]
+[[Category:2007 horror films]]
+[[Category:Indonesian horror films]]
+[[Category:Indonesian slasher films]]
+[[Category:Films about cannibalism]]
+[[Category:Films directed by the Mo Brothers]]
+[[Category:2000s Indonesian-language films]]