Make sure you have a suitable companion with you, one who does not scream and dig their nails into your hand or even worse places! It’s going to be another long weekend in the fourth week of October and these Indonesian horrors and thrillers can be on your ‘binge-watch’ list while celebrating Halloween at home. It does not store any personal data.Still image from the movie Suzzanna: Burried Alive (2018). The cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin and is used to store whether or not user has consented to the use of cookies. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Performance". This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin.
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I don’t know, maybe, we just identify with Asian ghosts better cause we’re, well, Asian too? Happen to a friend of a friend, then have to go to Bomoh! You go to that Bukit Tunku place, surely got.” “I heard of this ghost story from my grandma/grandpa/uncle before. “Wah, this ghost looks just like someone I saw at the train station yesterday! I can imagine this Asian ghost haunting me.”
Here where got this ‘Exorcist’ one.”Īnd admit it, each time you watch any Thai, Chinese, Japanese or Malaysian (Asian) horror, 10 out of 10 times you’ll be saying something like: