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Pocong (Indonesian pronunciation: [pɔ't͡ʃɔŋ] poh-chong; from Javanese: ꦥꦺꦴꦕꦺꦴꦁ, romanized: pocong, lit. 'wrapped-in-shroud') is a ghost that looks like a person wrapped in a funeral cloth. [1] In Islamic funeral, a shroud called a " kain kafan " (in Indonesian and Malay) is used to wrap the body of the dead person.
The film's story is adapted from a novel written by Risa Saraswati and is based on a friendship between ghosts and humans. [1] It is the highest-grossing Indonesian horror movie and has led to two sequels, Danur 2: Maddah [2] and Danur 3: Sunyaruri. Three spin-offs, Asih (2018), Silam (2018), Asih 2 (2020) and "Ivanna (2022), have also been ...
Wewe Gombel is a female supernatural being or vengeful ghost in Javanese mythology. It is said that she kidnaps children. [1] This myth is taught to encourage children to be cautious and to stay at home at night. Traditionally, the Wewe Gombel is represented as a woman with long, hanging breasts. [2] Modern representations include vampire -like ...
Kereta Hantu Manggarai (The Ghost Train of Manggarai) is a 2008 Indonesian horror film directed by Nayato Fio Nuala. The film, starring Sheila Marcia and Melvin Giovanie , tells the story about a group of teenagers who performs a ritual to "summon" and board a train that is said to be a ghost train, in order to find their member’s missing sister.
Hantu Jeruk Purut. Hantu Jeruk Purut (The Ghost of the Kaffir Lime Cemetery) is a 2006 Indonesian horror film directed by Koya Pagayo and starring Angie Virgin, Sheila Marcia Joseph, and Samuel Z Heckenbucker. It tells the story of an aspiring writer who is haunted by the ghost she is investigating.
USD 150,000. Lawang Sewu: Dendam Kuntilanak (Lawang Sewu: Kuntilanak's Vengeance) is a 2007 Indonesian Horror film directed by Arie Azis. The film tells about a group of seven teenagers from Jakarta is in Semarang to celebrate their high school graduation. Along the road home after partying, they stopped by Lawang Sewu, a supposedly haunted ...
Impetigore (Indonesian: Perempuan Tanah Jahanam, lit. 'Woman of the damned land') is a 2019 horror film written and directed by Joko Anwar. The film stars Tara Basro, Marissa Anita, Christine Hakim, Asmara Abigail, and Ario Bayu. The film follows Maya (Basro), who travels with her friend Dini (Anita) to her remote ancestral village seeking an ...
There are many Malay ghost myths (Malay: cerita hantu Melayu; Jawi: چريتا هنتو ملايو), remnants of old animist beliefs that have been shaped by Hindu-Buddhist cosmology and later Muslim influences, in the modern states of Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore and among the Malay diaspora in neighbouring Southeast Asian countries.