Showing posts with label Malaysia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Malaysia. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 22, 2009

JANGAN PANDANG BELAKANG CONGKAK


Jangan Pandang Belakang Congkak is a 2009 Malaysian comedy/horror film directed by Ahmad Idham, and starring Belalang, Dina, Cat Farish, Shafiee Jaafar, Shaheizy Sam, and Lisa Surihani.

Three men receive a telegram telling them that their grandfather has died. The three of them decided to go immediately and see what happen. Soon after they arrive, they are told that they will inherit everything their grandpa left, but the only clause in the will is that they stay in the old-man's house for three consecutive nights, without touching anything, especially the old Congkak. But while checking around the house, the three men tip the Congkak over, and soon that night weird things begin to happen.

Wednesday, December 16, 2009

RASUKAN ABLASA


Rasukan Ablasa is a 2009 Malaysian horror film co-written and directed by A. Razak Mohaideen, and starring Gambit Saifullah, Fouziah Ghous, Almy Nadia, and Jalaluddin Hassan.

A group of friends decide to enter a contest about the sounds of nature. They choose to go on a field trip to the country side and record some sounds to participate in the contest. However, while in the forest, they find a chest containing some weird bones. Soon after they come back to the city, they start hearing weird sounds and experiencing strange visions. After most of his friends have fallen under some sort of possession, Ashraf decides to investigate and finds out that everything seems to be connected to an incident that occurred fifty years ago. It will be up to Ashraf to try to solve the mystery and save his friends.

Monday, September 21, 2009

CONGKAK


Congkak is a 2008 Malaysian horror film directed by Ahmad Idham, and starring Nanu Baharuddin, Erynne Erynna, Riezman Khuzaini, and Ruminah Sidek.

Right after Kazman buys his new house in the country, he decides to take his family there for a vacation. Despite his wife's protests they end up going to the house which is located near a lake. Since the very first moment in the house his wife, Sufia, feels that there is someone observing them. To make things even worse, Sufia keeps having recurrent nightmares that involve her youngest daughter playing with an old woman or totally disfigured and looking like a monster. Everything becomes creepier when after a dream involving her daughter playing with a Congkak, Sufia finds her daughter and her husband playing with one. Later on, when Lisa, the youngest daughter disappears, Pak Tua, the oldest resident in that area, comes to help the family to locate the missing girl and try and solve the mistery that surrounds the house.

Sunday, July 26, 2009

SUSUK


Susuk is a 2008 Malaysian suspense/horror film directed by Amir Muhammad and Naeim Ghalili; and starring Ida Nerina, Diana Rafar, Adlin Aman Ramlee, and Hairie Othman.

The film follows the life of two seemingly different women. In the first place, Soraya, a young nurse who is beginning to feel a little disaffected by her own life. As a chance to be introduced to the world of glamour piques her earlier ambition to be a star, she does not succeed at first, but she is told that the forbidden practice of Susuk can help. However, on her way to succeeding, she has to make a dessision whether to stay the way she is, or cross a misterious line that devides reallity and unhuman life. In the second place, Suzana, a successful and misterious diva with a terrible secret. She has been a practitioner of the black arts and magic for too long. She has apparently succeeded due to her use of a extreme form of Susuk named Keramat. But beauty has a price, and every time Suzana violates a certain taboo, a human life is required to be sacrificed. It will finally come a moment in which the lives of these two women will come cross and the story will get to the true secret of this dreaded charm.

Tuesday, March 24, 2009

CHERMIN


Chermin (a.k.a. Mirror) is a 2007 Malaysian horror film written and directed by Zarina Abdullah, and starring Natasha Hudson and Deanna Yusoff.

While driving in her car, Nasrin gets herself into a car accident. Seconds before, she had seen someone seating in the backseat which caused her going off of the road. Later on, after awakening in the hospital with a big disfiguring scar, Nasrin breaks up her fiancé Yusuf as she doesn't feel confident of her new appearance.
Soon after, her mother discovers an old mirror that apparently belonged to Nasrin's grandfather's first wife. It seems that the mirror is not ordinary; it looks like there is a spirit trapped inside it that is taking over Nasrin and makes her see what she wants to see. Nasrin then becomes obsessed by the mirror and starts acting as if she was in some kind of possession. It is later revealed that the spirit is in fact Mastura's, Nasrin's grandfather's first wife, and she is in search of an unsatisfied need for blood and revenge. As the efforts to get rid of the evil spirit begins, Mastura does her best to break free of the mirror that holds her and take possession of Nasrin's body forever.