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Kuntilanak (folklore)
The Kuntilanak (Indonesian name), also called Pontianak (Malay name), is a mythological creature in Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore. It is similar to Langsuir in other Southeast Asia regions. The Pontianak usually takes the form of a pregnant woman who is unable to give birth to a child. Alternatively, it is often described as a vampiric, vengeful female spirit. Another form of the Pontianak refers to the ghost or white lady of Southeast Asian folklore. The Pontianak is often depicted as a long-haired woman dressed in white, and it represents local variations of a vampire. She lures in unsuspecting men to incite fear and enact revenge. Signs that a Pontianak is nearby include the sound of an infant crying and the smell of a decaying corpse or the plumeria flower. Etymology Kuntilanak or Pontianak is often described as an astral female spirit; another version of this figure is a woman spirit with long sharp fingernails. It is similar to the spirit of a woman unable to give ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indonesia
Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans. It consists of over 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, and parts of Borneo and New Guinea. Indonesia is the world's largest archipelagic state and the 14th-largest country by area, at . With over 275 million people, Indonesia is the world's fourth-most populous country and the most populous Muslim-majority country. Java, the world's most populous island, is home to more than half of the country's population. Indonesia is a presidential republic with an elected legislature. It has 38 provinces, of which nine have special status. The country's capital, Jakarta, is the world's second-most populous urban area. Indonesia shares land borders with Papua New Guinea, East Timor, and the eastern part of Malaysia, as well as maritime borders with Singapore, Vietnam, Thailand, the Philippines, Australia, Palau, and India ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Banana
A banana is an elongated, edible fruit – botanically a berry – produced by several kinds of large herbaceous flowering plants in the genus ''Musa''. In some countries, bananas used for cooking may be called "plantains", distinguishing them from dessert bananas. The fruit is variable in size, color, and firmness, but is usually elongated and curved, with soft flesh rich in starch covered with a rind, which may be green, yellow, red, purple, or brown when ripe. The fruits grow upward in clusters near the top of the plant. Almost all modern edible seedless ( parthenocarp) bananas come from two wild species – ''Musa acuminata'' and ''Musa balbisiana''. The scientific names of most cultivated bananas are ''Musa acuminata'', ''Musa balbisiana'', and ''Musa'' × ''paradisiaca'' for the hybrid ''Musa acuminata'' × ''M. balbisiana'', depending on their genomic constitution. The old scientific name for this hybrid, ''Musa sapientum'', is no longer used. ''Musa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kuntilanak 3
''Kuntilanak 3'' (English: The Chanting 3) is an Indonesian horror film directed by Rizal Mantovani. The film is the third in a trilogy, preceded by ''Kuntilanak'' and ''Kuntilanak 2''. The film stars Julie Estelle, Imelda Therinne and Laudya Cynthia Bella Laudya Cynthia Bella (born 24 February 1988, in Bandung, West Java, Indonesia) is an Indonesian singer and actress. She is mix of Sundanese, Javanese and Minangkabau descent. Personal life Bella married second time with Malaysian media stra .... The film was released on March 13, 2008. Plot A newly engaged couple, Stella and her fiancée Rimson, disappears on a trekking trip in a virgin forest. This event prompts four SAR Komodo Team members, Darwin, Asti, Herman, and Petra, to search for them. The SAR Komodo Team conducts the search mission through the land course, where they come across Samantha and convince her to join. They finally reach the forest's entrance, only to find the passage blocked, inducing them to con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kuntilanak (film)
''Kuntilanak'' (english title: "The Chanting") is a 2006 Indonesian horror film directed by Rizal Mantovani, (although this is not a direct translation as ''Kuntilanak'' or ''Pontianak'') about a ghost type in Indonesian (and wider Malay) folklore. In this movie, a student whose step-father molested her moves to a boarding house in a haunted area, this is followed by a series of killings. Plot Samantha "Sam" is an orphaned young woman who moves to an isolated boarding house in North Jakarta, trying to avoid the advances of her pervert stepfather. The landlady of the house, Yanti, tells her that the house was previously a batik factory of the Mangkoedjiwo family, with its current leader, Raden Ayu Sri Sukmarahimi Mangkoedjiwo having lent the house under a condition that the second floor is locked up with no one allowed inside. While listing other restrictions, including about a chair in front of a Javanese mirror in Sam's room, Yanti chants '' durmo'', a Javanese poem said to be a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terowongan Casablanca
''Terowongan Casablanca'' (The Casablanca Tunnel) is a 2007 Indonesian horror film written by Faldhin Martha and directed by Nanang Istiabudi. Background The film is (loosely) based upon an Indonesian legend that the Casablanca Tunnel in Jakarta is haunted by a woman who went there in the 1970s to attempt an abortion, was unsuccessful, and died as a result. Plot Refa and Astari have been a couple for a year, Astari becomes pregnant. An angry Refa lures her the Casablanca Tunnel to force an abortion, and in an attempt to flee, Astari is captured and buried alive with her unborn child. Astari returns as a vengeful ghost known as Pontianak to seek revenge on Refa and his friends. Cast * Donny Arifin * Ki Joko Bodo * Nino Fernandez * Jupiter Fortissimo * Titi Qadarsih * Ardina Rasti * Ray Sahetapy * Asha Shara * Aldiansyah Taher * Five Vi Reception ''Slasherpool'' found the film unintentionally hilarious for its poor quality and the amateurish manner of its attempt to be a ser ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pontianak Harum Sundal Malam
''Pontianak Harum Sundal Malam'', also known as ''Pontianak Scent of the Tuber Rose'' or ''Fragrant Night Vampire'', is a 2004 Malaysian horror film directed and written by Shuhaimi Baba. The storyline of the film is a restless female ghost wants to avenge her death. Produced by Persona Pictures, starring Maya Karin, the film is about a restless spirit (''pontianak'') Meriam who seeks revenge upon those who killed her. The film was a major box office success in Malaysia. A sequel, ''Pontianak Harum Sundal Malam 2'', was released on 24 November 2005. It is about Meriam continuing her revenge on the family of Marsani until Zali, a son of Marsani dies for saving her daughter Maria. Cast * Maya Karin as Meriam, the Primadonna whose death brought about the Pontianak / Maria, Meriam's daughter * Azri Iskandar as Marsani, Daniel's love rival, Meriam's killer, Zali's father, Asmadi's adopted son, Yuli's husband * Rosyam Nor as Asmadi, Marsani's adopted son * Ida Nerina as Sitam, Me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pontianak (film)
''Pontianak'' is a 1957 Malay horror film directed by Indian film director Balakrishna Narayana Rao, popularly known as B.N. Rao, and starring Maria Menado and M. Amin. Based on the Malay folktales of a blood-sucking ghost born from a woman who dies in childbirth, the smash hit premiered on 27 April 1957 and screened for almost three months at the local Cathay cinemas. Its success spawned two other sequels, ''Dendam Pontianak'' (''Revenge of the Pontianak'', 1957) and ''Sumpah Pontianak'' (''Curse of the Pontianak'', 1958). It is also said to have launched the ''Pontianak'' genre in Malaysia and Singapore, with rival Shaw producing its own ''Pontianak'' trilogy and several movies of the same genre were also made in Malaysia. This film is believed to be lost along with its sequel. There are different stories of how the films went missing. One is that Ho Ah Loke the film producer was frustrated and decided to throw the film into a mining pool. Second is that the film was disposed as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malaysian Television
Malaysian television broadcasting was introduced on 28 December 1963. Colour television was introduced on 28 December 1978. Full-time colour transmissions were officially inaugurated on New Year's Day 1982. There are currently 16 national free-to-air terrestrial television channels in Malaysia and 3 national pay subscription television operators in Malaysia. Broadcasting Transmissions in Malaysia were black-and-white until 28 December 1978, when colour transmissions were introduced. First stereo audio broadcasting was introduced in 1985 by TV3. Five out of eight channels do not have 24-hour schedule. 24-hour television was introduced in Malaysia between 13 and 16 May 1989 on TV1. The first 24-hour broadcasting in Malaysia was introduced in 1997 by TV3, but was discontinued later due to energy-saving plan (see below). Since April 2006, TV2 broadcast round-the-clock followed by TV1, which began broadcasting 24 hours in August 2012 after having short-lived round-the-clock broa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Television In Indonesia
Television in Indonesia started in 1962 (during the opening ceremony of the 1962 Asian Games), when the then state-run station TVRI began broadcasting – the third country in Southeast Asia to do so. TVRI held a television monopoly in Indonesia until 1989 when the first commercial station, RCTI began as a local station and was subsequently granted a national license a year later. The Indonesian television is regulated by both Ministry of Communication and Information Technology (Kemenkominfo) and Indonesian Broadcasting Commission (KPI). Each of the networks have a wide variety of programmes, ranging from traditional shows, such as ''wayang'' performances, to Western-based programmes such as ''Indonesian Idol'', ''Family Feud'', ''MasterChef'', ''Top Model'' and ''The Voice''. One typical television show common to almost every network is ''sinetron'' Sinetron is usually a drama series, following the soap opera format, but can also refer to any fictional series. Sometimes it can ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Horror Film
Horror is a film genre that seeks to elicit fear or disgust in its audience for entertainment purposes. Horror films often explore dark subject matter and may deal with transgressive topics or themes. Broad elements include monsters, apocalyptic events, and religious or folk beliefs. Cinematic techniques used in horror films have been shown to provoke psychological reactions in an audience. Horror films have existed for more than a century. Early inspirations from before the development of film include folklore, religious beliefs and superstitions of different cultures, and the Gothic and horror literature of authors such as Edgar Allan Poe, Bram Stoker, and Mary Shelley. From origins in silent films and German Expressionism, horror only became a codified genre after the release of ''Dracula'' (1931). Many sub-genres emerged in subsequent decades, including body horror, comedy horror, slasher films, supernatural horror and psychological horror. The genre has been produ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
