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The 2011 Malaysian comedy film Alamak... Toyol! features a toyol as its plot device. [25] In the 2013 Singapore horror film Ghost Child, a family is troubled by a tuyul which arrives from Indonesia in an urn. In the 2016 Indonesian horror film Tuyul: Part 1, a new family moves into an old house of the wife's mother after she died. The husband ...
Thrill-seeking horror story magazine journalist Murugan (RJ Ramana) travels to Malaysia to collect local true ghost stories and look for folks with paranormal stories. What started as an ordinary story search turns into a horrific life-changing mystery when he encounters Shankar (Tinesh Sarathi Krishnan), who shares a spine-chilling paranormal experience that happened to him and his friends.
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.
The penanggalan or penanggal is a nocturnal vampiric entity from Malay ghost myths. It takes the form of a floating disembodied woman's head, with its organs and entrails trailing from its neck. From afar, the penanggalan is said to twinkle like a ball of flame, similar to the will-o'-the-wisp phenomenon.
The Malay word for ghost is hantu. However, this word also covers all sorts of demons, goblins and undead creatures and are thought to have real physical bodies, instead of just apparitions or spectres. The most famous of these is the pontianak or matianak, the ghost of a female stillborn child which lures men in the form of a beautiful woman.
Hantu Musang: a civet cat spirit that is invoked in a game of possession [7] Hantu Pusaka: grave demon [8] Hantu Raya: great demon. [6] This hantu is considered the strongest among evil spirits of the jungles of Malaysia, and takes the appearance of its owner. [9] Hantu Rimba: deep-forest demon [6] Hantu Tinggi: tall hantu that is associated ...
Penanggalan: a ghost that supposedly can fly while its stomach is strapped out. Pocong: a ghost in the form of corpses wrapped in shrouds; Puntianak or Langsuir: a ghost who supposedly likes to suck blood and disturb women in childbirth, and usually are themselves like women; Toyol: a ghost who supposedly like to steal money; Humanoid beings
Indonesian Video Games: DreadOut (2014) Pamali: Indonesian Folklore Horror (2018) [9] Singaporean films: Return of Pontianak, also known as Voodoo Magic (2001) Dendam Pontianak, also known as Revenge of the Pontianak (2019) [10] Hong Kong films: The Demon's Baby (1998) Malaysian fiction: The House of Aunts (2011) by Zen Cho [11] Singaporean ...