Well, of course, what goes wrong is that after a while, the person taking the potion turns into a zombie and starts feasting on everyone they can lay hands on in the usual zombie way!
It's a 2 hour film and the first half-hour is frankly pretty boring as we learn about the family, their servants, friends in great detail without need except for a few drama-plot roundups at the end, which were totally unnecessary. Especially as the first act involves a bunch of people at a 'circumcision celebration' which looks more like a wedding party. Eeek. There are a few religious references throughout, so I guess that's in their culture. Suggest you skip to about 25 minutes in and start.
But then, boy - does it start! An hour and a half of ravaging, killing, biting, maiming, feasting on flesh as we're treated to some interesting methods the unaffected find to bump off the zombies. Apart from all that, our story follows the group of people who feature in the first half-hour as they band together to survive, eventually taking siege in a police station waiting for help that they hope will come. Think Assault on Precinct 13, I guess!
The highlight of the film is clearly the special effects and the grizzly ways in which they are presented are really quite entertaining and often well done. These extras must have had a whale of a time running around insanely in the classic zombie ways, arms flailing, growling, strange gait - all the genre hallmarks we've come to expect from such fodder! As usual, I find most of it funny rather than in any way scary or horrific - but then I'm an odd-bod! It feels more comic than anything else.
But don't let that put you off because if you watch with the right frame of mind, you might well be watching wide-eyed and mouth agog as the violence erupts and maintains itself for three-quarters of the runtime. As I say, there is some patch up at the end and some attempts at heart-warming moments as sacrifice and survival meet head on, altruistic to the last man standing! Rip-roaring entertainment, as I say, and well worth a look. You can then say that you've seen an Indonesian zombie film - and actually, it weren't half bad!
