{"id":40404,"date":"2025-10-29T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=40404"},"modified":"2025-10-29T14:44:45","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T18:44:45","slug":"the-elixir-2025-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=40404","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Elixir&#8221; (2025) \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2025\/z102925zview_theelixir.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"750\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Elixir <\/strong><\/em>(2025)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director:\u00a0 <strong>Kimo Stamboel<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>Kimo Stamboel, Agasyah Karim, Khalid Kashogi<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Mikha Tambayong, Eva Celia, Donny Damara, Marthino Lio<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: None.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Plot\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">An extended family has come together to join others in a remote Indonesian village.\u00a0 The family has come to take part in a celebration.\u00a0 Prior to the party, family arguments ensue.\u00a0 The patriarch and head of the family business has had company scientists working on an anti-aging potion.\u00a0 He hopes that this new serum will save his company.\u00a0 Perhaps if the business thrives again, the family will get along better.<\/p>\n<p>When he takes the potion, it turns him into a zombie.<\/p>\n<p>Let the madness begin.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\">Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The movie begins with a bang.\u00a0 Then it quickly backs up five hours to show us what caused the excitement.\u00a0 Instead of an action-packed zombie flick that takes off, we get a family drama.\u00a0 I had zero interest in any of the characters.\u00a0 So when the zombie action starts up again after 30 minutes or so, I didn&#8217;t care who lived or died.<\/p>\n<p>At 42 minutes I tapped out.\u00a0 Your mileage, as always, may vary.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><strong>The Elixir <\/strong><\/em>(2025) rates 1 of 5 stars.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_f.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2025\/z102925zview_theelixir2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"328\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Elixir (2025) Director:\u00a0 Kimo Stamboel Screenplay: Kimo Stamboel, Agasyah Karim, Khalid Kashogi Stars: Mikha Tambayong, Eva Celia, Donny Damara,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[53,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-horror","category-movies","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40404"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40405,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40404\/revisions\/40405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}