Jahannam 2: Throwback

Jahannam 2: Throwback (International title: Hell 2022) is a 2022 Bornean environmental comedy/thriller period anthology film directed by singer Putri Norizah and the combined sequel and prequel to 2021's Jahannam. The film continues its theme of reflection on environmental neglect and destruction. The film premiered on May 13, 2022.

Plot
The film follows the previous film's original story of ten unrelated chapters with a similar theme. However the themes are expanded to include the disadvantages of colonialism as well as corruption, ignorance and general greed.

1822
In a Dayak village in Ketapang, the unnamed village chief places a bounty on the body of Swedish explorer Emil Ehnström, demanding for his capture and execution. Ehnström, having arrived with a few other Swedish-speaking Finnish settlers from Lappland, is planning to establish a settlement there. After capturing slaves from a nearby village to fetch them wood, the whites finally build their settlement. A gang of mercenaries from another neighboring village is sent to assassinate Ehnström, but their attempt proves unsuccessful.

On one night, the village chief sends the surviving mercenaries to murder Ehnström and the settlers. But before they could set out to find and kill him, Ehnström's friend, riding on horseback, leads the settlers into the village. The villagers are either mercilessly slaughtered or enslaved, and the chief begs to be let go. Ehnström does not listen and murders the chief violently as his cries for help are drowned out by Ehnström's diabolical chuckling.

1872
Daniel, Emil's son, is now a wealthy businessman in Banjarsstad. However behind his wealth hides a horrific secret of extorting employees and tax evasion. One night, Daniel stands beside his ailing father as his health deteriorates. After Emil tells him that Daniel would inherit all of his fortune and his paper company business, Daniel realizes he has been tricked into doing his father's dirty work and he is the one to blame. He admits this, and Emil apologizes to him as he finally dies, stating that he would be better off in Hell.

Daniel visits the Dutch Burgher priest Wilhelm LaBrooy and asks him if he could repent, saying that he had been forced into his father's corruption. Daniel does so with LaBrooy's help. After Daniel transfers the ownership of his father's business to his Scottish friend Connor, he splits his wealth evenly between his family members and runs off into a cottage his father built for him 30 years ago. The sign above the door of the house reads: "This is for you, Daniel, when you grow up" in Swedish.

When Daniel returns a month later, he realizes the business has been shut down after it was found to have been the primary suspect in a graft case. However, LaBrooy tells him he can have the fortune accumulated by the company before it shut down. Daniel agrees and returns to the cottage to live out a simple life with his wife and their newborn son.

1897
A year before the events of the segment, Daniel's children, Monika, Rolf and Jorgen, have all grown up and were supposed to move out of their cottage to leave for St. Michaelsburg. On the way, they are captured by a group of Afrikaner and Anglo-Indian loggers demanding approval to demolish the cottage. Rolf accepts the offer and he, his siblings and his parents are all taken away by the loggers. The loggers walk away as they prepare to chop down the cottage.

In the present, Daniel's greedy brother, Lars, is friends with a mysterious American man named Scott, who leads the group of loggers who captured Daniel and his wife and children. Lars has planned to build his mansion on the former site of the cottage where his brother lived. A rice plantation is set up on the mansion and very soon an entire group of Dayaks are captured and enslaved, being forced to work on the rice fields 24/7 without any breaks whatsoever, until they die of exhaustion and have their bodies fed to crocodiles.

One night, Lars's mansion is looted and set ablaze by the rebelling slaves. Lars and Scott manage to escape with their wealth and belongings to St. Michaelsburg while the house burns. Eventually the pair arrive in the city where they live in luxury. It is revealed that Scott was actually Connor, who faked his death and abandoned his identity prior to the events of the segment.

1922
In 1909 New Celebes, Lars' son Kristian has taken the identity of an American businessman named Chris after inheriting his father's fortune and faking his death. After his father is killed by Dayaks, intending to kill their master and avenge Daniel, Kristian flees to New York and has his business operate there. Thirteen years later, in 1922, he returns to Borneo and lands in St. Michaelsburg with several Americans (who were all formerly Borneo Swedes) on board.