You know what’s scarier than a good horror film? The sequel. Making a sequel to any type of film is incredibly hard to pull off. The very nature of the endeavor is artistically compromised.

Writer-director-editor Joko Anwar expertly blends gruesome horror with well-timed humour and insightful political commentary.

The buddy cop genre had existed long before the ’80s, with variations like the forerunner buddy cop movie Freebie and the ...