| Pontianak Harum Sundal Malam | |
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| Directed by | Shuhaimi Baba |
| Written by | Shuhaimi Baba |
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| Cinematography | Mohd Filus Ghazali |
| Edited by | Mior Hashim Manap |
| Music by | Ajai |
Production company | Pesona Pictures |
| Distributed by | Skop Productions |
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| Country | Malaysia |
| Language | Malay |
| Budget | MYR 2.2 million[1] |
| Box office | MYR 3.2 million[1] |
Pontianak Harum Sundal Malam, (English:Pontianak Scent of the Tuber Rose) is a 2004MalaysianMalay-languagehorror film directed and written byShuhaimi Baba starringMaya Karin,Azri Iskandar andRosyam Nor.[2][3] The storyline of the film revolves around a restless female ghost who wants to avenge her death.
Produced by Persona Pictures,[4] starringMaya Karin, the film is about arestless spirit (pontianak) Meriam who seeks revenge upon those who killed her. The film was a major box office success inMalaysia.[citation needed] It was one of the first horror films to be released after the relaxation of 1990s censorship laws.[5]
A sequel,Pontianak Harum Sundal Malam 2, was released on 24 November 2005.[6] It is about Meriam continuing her revenge on the family of Marsani until Zali, a son of Marsani dies for saving her daughter Maria.
It tells the story of a series of mysterious events that happened in two eras, the past and the present. In the late 1940s gamelan prima donna, Meriam (Maya Karin) is caught between the love of two men, Marsani (Azri Iskandar) and Danial (Shahronizam Noor). Meriam finally chose and accepted Danial and made Marsani jealous. Meriam was later found dead while pregnant with her first child. Since then, the village is no longer safe when various scary incidents happen. Marsani lives in fear and is always haunted by the nightmares of Meriam who is thought to be a vampire. More than 50 years have passed, Marsani continues to spend the rest of his life but still remembers Meriam. Something strange happens when a girl appears, Maria (Maya Karin) whose face looks exactly like Meriam's. Coincidentally, Maria is a good friend of Marsani's grandson, Norman (Eizlan Yusof) and his fiancée, Anna (Kavita Sidhu). Once again some strange events happened and this time Maria was accused of being a vampire by Marsani. The question is, who is Maria and what is her relationship with Meriam?
Pontianak Harum Sundal Malam is, according to film scholar Rosalind Galt, a feminist version of the pontianak film genre in Malaysia.[5]
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