Directed by Yusron Fuadi, this Indonesian horror-comedy is very Cabin In the Woods as it begins. Five archetypes — the jock, the nerd, the rich person, the pretty one and the popular kid — all head off to a cabin where they’re warned away but stay anyways. We’ve seen it all before — from 1978-1981 we saw it hundreds of times — but then we learn that these characters are the mercy of a screenwriter who is trying to figure it all out. The greatest horror that they face isn’t a slasher killer, but the fact that they’re unreality and the whims of an omniscient creator will only get them killed in the worst of ways.

Ani (Anggi Waluyo), Budi (Ibrahim Alhami), Iwan (Adhin Abdul Hakim), Amir (Winner Wijaya) and Wati (Anastasia Herzigova) have all gathered at an old family vacation cabin that has fallen into disrepair, as you’d expect from the genre, and there’s a murder the first night. From there, Amir has to guide them — Scream style — through the rules of horror. Yet when they change from idea to idea, that gets difficult.

As characters die and come back to life, cars appear and re-appear, and even the style of film changes, the only way for the protagonists to make it is if they realize they are a narrative and embrace their unreality. That’s about the least spoiler-free way I can describe what I just watched.

The filmmaker knows you’ve seen it all before, but you have never seen it like this. And don’t worry. If you’re a slasher fan and don’t really want to consider all this meta-textural mumbo jumbo, there are just enough bloody murders to keep you sated.