So since I have nowhere to go (despite the oh so many halloween parties), I stayed at home on Halloween night.
Besides, I'm thinking not to waste money more than $5 per day any way...
So instead I watched this.
Oh hell yeah. Indonesian old horror movie. Featuring Indonesian (late) Ghost Queen, Suzana.
Sundelbolong is a woman ghost with a hole on her back. I don't really know what her legend says (and too lazy to look for it), all I know that yeah. She has a hole on her back.
Part one for your convenience
Actually I didn't even intent to watch a horror movie in the first place. I just randomly typed "bolong" (Indonesian for "hole" as in "Your shirt has a hole") to Youtube search because that word is just ugly. I never thought it will hit such thing! 8D
Yeah, that's what the "bolong" on "Sundelbolong" means.
So I decided to sit, lay back, and watch.
Basically the story is about this girl, gangraped, depressed, killed herself, and haunts those who raped her. That... corny. But since it's a product from the 80s, Indonesian, and overall B-movie-ish... I just don't expect you to be scared. Really. If you are scared by this movie then something is wrong with you.
So the scene started with this newlywed couple with all the typical Indonesian marriage banquet (and suddenly I felt hungry)...
The wife stumbled and the husband cheesily spoke "Oh, that means I have to carry you, my dear." PDA is okay, but less cheesier perhaps? :/
But a while after their marriage, the husband told his wife that he has to go on a job trip (since apparently he's a ship captain or some sort).
And goes this cheesy dialog along the way;
Husband: "This sudden job
ruins our happiness."
Wife: "I don't mind, you are my
helping god.
You took me out from this darkness. I'll wait for you."
Seriouslyyyy 8D
So the guy went and he left his wife (and maid).
Buhbyeeee~~~!!!!
Buhaaaay!!!
Then this left wife alone, who suddenly got a call from this boutique owner, claimed interest on her handcraft.
It turns out that the boutique owner had good relationship with her ex-pimp lady.
From left: Pimp lady, assistant, and the boutique owner. I wonder why the boutique owner isn't gay.
So yeah, apparently she was a hooker before she got married.
So this pimp lady told the boutique owner to make the wife as a model instead, since you know... The "sell-your-body" thing... But the wife refused and felt so humiliated that she had to be forced to go back to her old life.
But for some reason, the baddies insisted. Perhaps for they just being, evil. Kidnap and raped this poor lone wife.
RAEPFACE!
...and expectedly similar...
And he told to his mooks they can do the rest...
So the wife left depressed and later found out she was pregnant, most likely from the rape. And the gynecologist apparently refused to hear her rape story and judged her badly as a woman and wife. She was haunted by her past life for being a hooker and aborted babies before. The point was she just couldn't take it anymore, she snapped.
And decided to do this.
Maid goes GYAAAA!
Then she was buried and the husband looking like he wasn't bothered at all. Then the haunt begins.
First she visited her husband and said her apology, and then she slowly killed her rapists one by one in the most... absurd way. One time she even haunted a poor satay seller and a becak (Indonesian trishaw) owner. For no apparent reason, probably for comedy moments. But it so absurd you ended up feeling pity to the satay owner because apparently a ghost just came and took down all their satay and soup stock, in one single dinner, and did not pay...
She took that soup pan in one gulp, and since her back has a hole, the soup pour back out from there.
To kill her victim, this ghost lure those pervos by turing into a seductive woman and one by one, probably because all men are pervert, are taken down. It always happen at night. Which hilariously resulted in this.
And that's the ghost wife, disguising as a woman, try to seduce one of her rapist passing with a car.
You don't see what's wrong? She opens an umbrella in the middle on a non rainy night. Only stupid people who don't think that is weird and suspicious enough.
The ghost also constantly visited her husband, disguising as her long dead twin sister, and I have no idea why the husband isn't suspicious and once again, bothered. He even never asks her background, story, reason, or anything and just trust this girl who looked like his dead wife. Not to mention at one point, he had sex with her.
Yes. Had sex with the ghost.
Until finally near the end, when the boutique owner hired a witch doctor to mess up with her grave while she was on a "date" with his husband. She left for saving her grave, leaving her purse and when her husband took a look in it, he found their marriage photo (which puts the question; why a ghost has a purse and a picture in it?).
Oh, did I mention that she killed the pimp lady by throwing her into a electricity pole? 8D
Following result of the action
A viewer even posted a comment, pointing on how the neighborhood will have blackout afterward...
So in the end, she managed to kill all that caused her "unhappiness" (killing the pimp lady, boutique owner, and the rapists) and finally her husband told her to rest in peace while an Imam chants the Quran verse for her.
And the movie ends.
I don't wanna rate this movie. It's so bad, it's good. It's pretty entertaining actually. Perhaps because you get to see stupid and nonsensical people haunted by a ghost that raise big disbelief.
The point that scares me only when the wife ghost turns into a pocong instead. Pocong is something like a zombie, but took a form in how Muslim would wrap dead bodies before burying them. I
hate that thing. But the rest is fine. Funny to the extent.
So yeah. This halloween turned out pretty swell after all.
