Sigaw (2004) remains to be one of the country’s most critically-acclaimed horror flicks. Directed by young filmmaker Yam Laranas,
Sigaw had also been exhibited in international film festivals with an English title of The Echo. It also won the best music award (for Jesse Lucas) in the Screamfest Horror Film Festival in Los Angeles in 2005.
Two years after its first release, the film will now be remade in Hollywood with Yam Laranas still directing and The Echo as its official title. The remake of the movie Sigaw in their own homeland.
Lara Nasser, the director of "The Voice" to criticize society is very interesting. Society where people are separated from each other by a thin concrete wall. And frequent disturbances from the neighboring room. Become annoying by habitually we let pass without attention. Or may be interested in some instances, but most simply in the form of a sneak peek listen. Not to lend assistance. But to keep it from falling over themselves to be involved with the story that counts is the result of the behavior of these conditions was one of the ghosts haunting in The Echo.
The style of Lara Nasser forward simplicity is striking, not lining the utensil could hardly be said to be a twist at the end (twist ending), but in the presentation of "Caprica ajar" featuring out. little by little Draw people to the track indefinitely. Meanwhile, the ghost was inserted into the forward thrust morale audience is. Despite that, there was not much that could be called shocking the audience every ten minutes, but many scenes were also present, through visual means outstanding. In particular, the issue of creating an environment with the use of light and color.
Throughout the story, almost 60-70 percent of the movie Lara Nasser chose to use light and color in shades of yellow - orange - brown, whether it is daytime in Bobby's room, hallways and rooms. Were often plastered with yellow and orange. Or at night, the atmosphere is somber with shades of yellow and brown from light. The atypical nature of the ghost. (Usually tone with blue or green), but would guess it's not hard to Lara Nasser wanted to use color in such a mood of immense shrinkage rough to the atmosphere to support the content in the film at that. With the drought kindness of the people in the city itself.